3. Characters
THE VICTIMS…
Liz Hunter, for
example goes
back to the
antagonist to
find a car, but
ends up being
brutally
killed by the
killer.
Ma
fe inly
m
wh ale a y
o
sa o at vic ung
t
v
in e h tem im,
p
th er
e w s el t s t
ro f, b o
ng
u
wa t
y.
Ben Mitchell
was the one to
escape as he did
not catch the
attention of
the killer, by
returning back
to him.
4. The females are the ones that get killed in
both their situations, this is because they
didn’t tend to try and escape from the
killer, they either tried to get help from
one another by screaming at the top of
their lungs.
Which isn’t going to help either of them,
they seem to be oblivious to the fact that
they’re going to be killed either way.
These female stereotypes are used
thoroughly in popular horror movies,
showing that the male characters are
more confident and acknowledging to the
fact that they’ve got to escape so they do
not die.
5. characters
The killer…
The psychopathic killer, Mick
Taylor who secretly lives in
Australia in an abandoned mining
site, tortures all 3 of the victims.
Also among one of the victim’s
discoveries, she finds he has done
this to several other
groups/families. The unknown Mick
Taylor has never been found by
the police (it is said in the movie to
also have been based on true
events) This makes the fact of it
seem scarier to the audience, also
finding the setting of Australia as
weird, unusual place…
6. SETTINGS
Large, vast, spacious settings to allow the
characters to explore
Isolated and abandoned settings, such as
Mick Taylor’s abandoned mine shack in
Australia
Deserted places such as Wolf Creek (an
actual Creek in Australia)
7. ACTIONS
(CONVENTIONS)
•
characters don’t fully engage the threat ~
they know people have gone missing in that
area (wolf creek) but still decide to camp
there.
•
The car battery and their watches/phones
break ~ they think nothing is unusual so
decide to stay in their car till dark where
the stranger Mick Taylor takes them.
•
Character runs upstairs or returns back
to the killer’s area instead of running out
the house or far away.
•
Victim falls over (mainly female) while the
antagonist is chasing them.
