Rate Wolfe Creek, Western Australia
Jun 11, 2021 16:56:53 GMT -5
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Post by greysrigging on Jun 11, 2021 16:56:53 GMT -5
In keeping with the theme of National Parks and Serial Killers, thought we should combine the two....
Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater is an actual site tucked away in a very remote location near the Western Australia- Northern Territory border.
The Wolfe Creek meteorite crater is the second largest crater in the world from which fragments of a meteorite have been collected. The crater is 880m across and almost circular.
Dating has shown that the meteorite crashed to Earth around 300,000 years ago. It would have weighed more than 50,000 tonnes and is thought to have been travelling at 15km a second, a speed that would have taken it across Australia in five minutes.
Wolfe Creek Crater National Park lies 145km from Halls Creek via the Tanami Road and access road (gravel and only accessible to conventional vehicles during the dry season), a two to three hour drive. All access within the national park is on foot.
Climate data from Halls Creek to the north, Rabbit Flat on the Tanami Road to the south east, and the remote Aboriginal community of Balgo Hills to the south.
Halls Creek
Rabbit Flat
Balgo Hills
Wolf Creek the movie is an Australian horror/slasher film based loosely on the serial killer Ivan Milat and outback murderer Bradley Murdoch.
"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. Its plot concerns three backpackers who find themselves taken captive and subsequently hunted by Mick Taylor, a deranged psychopathic xenophobic killer, in the Australian outback. 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.
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. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005. 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. In the United States and Canada, it was released on Christmas Day 2005, distributed by Dimension Films.
Wolf Creek received mixed reviews from film critics, with several, such as Roger Ebert and Manohla Dargis, criticizing it for its realistic and unrelenting depictions of violence. 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". The film was nominated for seven Australian Film Institute awards, including Best Director (for McLean). In 2010, it was included in Slant Magazine's list of the 100 best films of the decade."
Fictional serial killer Mick Taylor
Wolf Creek trailer
As an aside, a local Darwin radio station had a Mick taylor look-a-like competition for the sequel movie premier some years ago. My kids convinced me to enter haha. the winner would be a guest on the opening night and get to have a few beers with the cast and crew. I ended up one of the runners up....lol !
Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater is an actual site tucked away in a very remote location near the Western Australia- Northern Territory border.
The Wolfe Creek meteorite crater is the second largest crater in the world from which fragments of a meteorite have been collected. The crater is 880m across and almost circular.
Dating has shown that the meteorite crashed to Earth around 300,000 years ago. It would have weighed more than 50,000 tonnes and is thought to have been travelling at 15km a second, a speed that would have taken it across Australia in five minutes.
Wolfe Creek Crater National Park lies 145km from Halls Creek via the Tanami Road and access road (gravel and only accessible to conventional vehicles during the dry season), a two to three hour drive. All access within the national park is on foot.
Climate data from Halls Creek to the north, Rabbit Flat on the Tanami Road to the south east, and the remote Aboriginal community of Balgo Hills to the south.
Halls Creek
Rabbit Flat
Balgo Hills
Wolf Creek the movie is an Australian horror/slasher film based loosely on the serial killer Ivan Milat and outback murderer Bradley Murdoch.
"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. Its plot concerns three backpackers who find themselves taken captive and subsequently hunted by Mick Taylor, a deranged psychopathic xenophobic killer, in the Australian outback. 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.
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. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005. 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. In the United States and Canada, it was released on Christmas Day 2005, distributed by Dimension Films.
Wolf Creek received mixed reviews from film critics, with several, such as Roger Ebert and Manohla Dargis, criticizing it for its realistic and unrelenting depictions of violence. 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". The film was nominated for seven Australian Film Institute awards, including Best Director (for McLean). In 2010, it was included in Slant Magazine's list of the 100 best films of the decade."
Fictional serial killer Mick Taylor
Wolf Creek trailer
As an aside, a local Darwin radio station had a Mick taylor look-a-like competition for the sequel movie premier some years ago. My kids convinced me to enter haha. the winner would be a guest on the opening night and get to have a few beers with the cast and crew. I ended up one of the runners up....lol !
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