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Liz leaves the hysterical Kristy outside, telling her to escape on foot if Liz does not return in five minutes. The women evade him by pushing his truck off a cliff before returning to the site to get another car. Mick stumbles out of the garage and shoots at them before giving chase. The women attempt to flee in Mick's truck. When Mick returns, she shoots him with his rifle, the bullet hitting him in the neck. Liz sets the now-dismantled car on fire to distract him, and goes to help Kristy.

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She breaks free and hears Mick torturing Kristy in a garage, it is implied that Mick had sexually assaulted her. He then gives the group water which causes them to fall unconscious. Mick regales them with tall stories of his past while making a show of fixing their car. The group goes with him to an abandoned mining site several hours south of Wolf Creek. After dark, a man named Mick Taylor comes across them and offers to tow them to his camp to repair the car. Hours later, they discover that their watches have stopped and the car will not start. The trio makes a stop at Wolf Creek National Park. Ben buys a dilapidated car for their journey from Broome to Cairns, Queensland via the Great Northern Highway. In Broome, Western Australia, 1999, two British tourists, Liz Hunter and Kristy Earl, are backpacking across the country with Ben Mitchell, an Australian friend. In 2010, it was included in Slant Magazine 's list of the 100 best films of the decade. The film was nominated for seven Australian Film Institute awards, including Best Director (for McLean). Other publications, such as Variety and Time Out, praised the film's grindhouse aesthetics, with the latter calling its straightforward depiction of crime and violence 'taboo-breaking'. Wolf Creek received mixed reviews from film critics, with several, such as Roger Ebert and Manohla Dargis, criticising it for its realistic and unrelenting depictions of violence. In the United States and Canada, it was released on Christmas Day 2005, distributed by Dimension Films.

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It was given a theatrical release in Ireland and the United Kingdom in September 2005, followed by a general Australian release in November, apart from the Northern Territory, out of respect for the pending trial surrounding the murder of Peter Falconio. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005. Produced on a $1.1 million budget, filming of Wolf Creek took place in South Australia the film was shot almost exclusively on high-definition video. The film was ambiguously marketed as being 'based on true events', while its plot bore elements reminiscent of the real-life murders of backpackers by Ivan Milat in the 1990s and Bradley Murdoch in 2001, both of which McLean used as inspiration for the screenplay.

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Its plot concerns three backpackers who find themselves taken captive and subsequently hunted by Mick Taylor, a sadistic, psychopathic, xenophobic serial killer, in the Australian outback. Wolf Creek is a 2005 Australian horror film written, co-produced and directed by Greg McLean and starring John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath and Kestie Morassi.