worse movie ever made/you saw?

[Exeter19]

didn't see the host but did see mama and i agree it sucked, lmao. not too many horror movies are done well nowadays.

[anya_may21]

Have you ever seen Wolf Creek, the first one, it was well done.

[Exeter19]

i'm not sure i will google it and see, it doesn't sound familiar, was there sequels to it, since you said the 1st one?

[anya_may21]

I can copy paste you info off an article about the true story of that horror movie, still can't post links.

Yes, there is a part 2 I never watched it though.

Info:
Wolf Creek True Story
The Wolf Creek Movie: the true story
of a murder in the Australian Outback?

This true story of a murder in the Australian Outback influenced the Wolf Creek movie and five (!) books are on their way.
The scenic Wolfe Creek National Park in the Western Australian Outback has never received so much attention, even though the movie title misspells it.

The actual name of the remote meteorite crater on the edge of the Kimberley and the Great Sandy Desert is Wolfe Creek.

Wolf Creek: A True Story?

In the Wolf Creek movie story three young backpackers in their twenties return from a hike in Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback to find that their car won't start. They accept help from a seemingly friendly local bushman. He tows their car to his camp, an abandoned old mine site.

They spend the night there, wake up the next morning and this is when they realise that he is not the friendly bushman they thought. The horror starts there, and I won't tell you any more in case you haven't seen the movie.

The movie tagline says, "Based on true events." So what's the Wolf Creek true story? How close is the movie to Australian Outback reality?

I've seen outcries on travel forums by young English backpackers: "Oh my god, what are they doing to us?" Excuse me? They? As in us Australians? Or what?

Anyway, for those who have trouble separating fact from fiction, here is Wolf Creek, the true story.

Wolf Creek: The True Story

The true Wolf Creek story happened about two thousand kilometres from Wolfe Creek National Park, and not in Western Australia, but in the Northern Territory.

On July 14, 2001, British tourists Peter Falconio (then 28) and Joanne Lees (who in October 2006 finally launched her book, the only true story!) travelled on the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs in the direction of Darwin. It was night time.

Roughly half way between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek, just outside Barrow Creek, a mechanic called Bradley John Murdoch managed to make them pull over, and told them that sparks were coming out of the exhaust of their van.

Peter went to the back of the van with Murdoch to have a look, and Joanne was asked to rev the engine. She later said she thought she heard a shot. Then Murdoch, holding a gun, came to her window. He bound her hands and dragged her into his four wheel drive.

Then he disappeared for a while. It is assumed that he dealt with Peter's body during that time. That's when Joanne managed to escape. She hid in the bush as Murdoch was searching for her with his dog. Eventually he gave up.

Joanne waited for hours, making sure that he was really gone and not coming back. When she finally staggered back onto the highway two truck drivers stopped and helped her.

Murdoch was caught in the largest Northern Territory police investigation ever. He had been in Alice Springs the same day as Joanne and Peter, he had also visited the same fast food outlet.

Whether he targeted them at random or followed them from Alice Springs is not known. He claims he wasn't even near Barrow Creek, had taken the Tanami Road instead (a rough bush track from Alice Springs to Western Australia. It runs past Wolfe Creek National Park)

Many questions remain. No weapon or body was found. The motive is unclear, too. But speculations revolve around paranoia and aggression induced by his heavy amphetamine use. Murdoch is a self confessed drifter, drug runner, and regularly transported large amounts of cannabis between Alice Springs and Broome in Western Australia.

His lawyers couldn't explain how his DNA had ended up on the makeshift handcuffs that Joanne was tied up with, if he'd been nowhere near her. After a two month trial he was found guilty in December 2005. The verdict by the jury was unanimous. Murdoch will serve at least 28 years of a life sentence, unless his appeal (due for hearing in December 2006) is successful. (Update: Murdoch's appeal was rejected in January 2007.)

I followed the reports of the trial and admired Joanne Lees' stoicism. I believe it helped her to make an escape, but it often didn't help her before and during the trial. She has remained silent, withdrawn, not revealing her emotions (which are nobody's business in my opinion). No big magazine spreads and TV shows, just four days of testimony during the trial. Unusual in our age of media hype and rampant disclosure...

And that's it, the Wolf Creek true story. Or is it?

Well, not quite. There sure are many parallels, enough for Murdoch's lawyers to prevent the movie from being released in the Northern Territory during the trial. But the true story above is not the only one that influenced the Wolf Creek movie.

The character of Mick Taylor, the seemingly friendly and helpful bush bloke, is modelled on Ivan Milat. Milat was a serial killer who picked up hitchhikers and took them into the woods where he tortured and killed them. These murders took place in the 1990s in New South Wales, not in the Outback (and have taken place in other form at other times in other parts of the world as well...) Milat, too, was caught and sentenced to life in prison.

You should also keep in mind that writer/director Greg McLean wrote the original story years ago, as a conventional and purely fictional horror flick set in the Australian Outback. He only became aware of the true cases afterwards, and took ideas and cues from them and blended them into his story. The line "based on true events" surely helps marketing the film, but it is misleading...

Should you be concerned?

Absolutely. Stay away from amphetamines...

[Exeter19]

that article is interesting, anya_may. going to check out wolf creek this weekend, make it a horror movie watch weekend.

[nomas]

I, too, dislike Sandler. Very predictable and likes to make his character the coolest guy ever and almost always a great athlete. I think he wanted to be a famous athlete/musician instead of what he does.

I also agree that the Hobbit films are being raped and milked for more than they are worth. The first part of the first LOTR was enough Hobbit, I think.

I also greatly dislike what Michael Mann has done with the Transformers. Shia LeBoeuf aside, the unnecessary "comedy" makes me cringe every time.

I left the worse for last, though. I love the movies and have never walked out on a film, but I got DAMN close on The Purge. Boy, it was painful. Funny thing is, the second one looks like it may be completely different..I may be fooled twice.

[Exeter19]

shia lebouef has gone apeshit ****ing crazy, lmao those movies didn't help him any, damn. i hate when they run these franchises into the ground we don't need any more transformers movies.

adam sandler's voice is so annoying too. that comedy one he did with seth rogen i liked but might be because of who made the movie and other actors in it, not for sandler.

the purge was that the ethan hawke one? he had another too, horror that was good or at least more watchable, lmao.. sinister.

so agree with you on pretty much all, nomas.

[hatesthis]

Has anyone ever seen Lady In The Water? Awful. Or Movie 43, very bad but had some laughs but was gross too, I don't like stupid gross humor, it seems like cheap laughs and not much effort needed.

[anya_may21]

Hugh Jackman with balls on his face, that one? Why'd he agree to that movie. SMH

I agree it was awful.

[YoungCosmo]

Now I am not a hyperbolic person...but "Dances with Wolves" is one of the worst things that ever happened ever. "Goodfellas" should have been given that damn Oscar!!

[adityasingh]

The worst movie that I saw ' prayer'. I didn't like this movie.

[nico88]

Lady in the Water was pretty much shit. So was The Village. Kinda like Signs tho.

Watched this horrible shitfest of a movie called "Piranhaconda" last night with a couple of my friends. It was probably the worst plot and acting I've ever ****ing seen but it was entertaining. We laughed through a majority of it because of how stupid it was. If you happen upon it in the 3 dollar bin at Walmart I'd pick it up just for the lols.

[Exeter19]

shit the village, what a crapfest of a movie. wasn't it the one after sixth sense or was it that stupid wahlberg one, that one sucked too. but had hopes that it would rival sixth sense and unbreakable, dude disappointed big time. devil wasn't bad, think that was one of his too? but he made more shit ones than good ones which is too bad.

[nico88]

Haha agreed. He's got a creative mind tho, I'll give him that.

Was Devil the one in the elevator?

[anya_may21]

Palo Alto with James Franco and Emma Roberts.

It was so boring, I mean like a snail crawl boring and they built it up with all this exciting hype.

Not to mention James Franco's creepy hotel romp thing with a minor that was claimed to be promotion off his pedo role in this movie, which I don't believe for one second.

I think he asked her back to his hotel for himself not for any movie role inspirations because the movie was already shot.

Movie was boring. Didn't like any of the characters. Fail.