“I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.”

—  Roger Ebert

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wolf-creek-2005 of Wolf Creek (23 December 2005)
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