how much truth is based on the film wolf creek?

Question

I'v read the stories about it but don't no what to believe what does everyone else think??

Answer 1

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 (then 27) 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 in the blood on Joanne's clothes 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 is successful.

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...

So what does the Wolf Creek true story mean for tourists to the Australian Outback? Should you be concerned?

Absolutely. Stay away from amphetamines...

http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/wolf_creek_true_story.html


although most horror movies are fake some are based slightly on real events . texas chainsaw massacre was slightly based on Ed Gaines, a serial killer who torturted and killed people and kept parts of their bodies and made things with them, skin lamp shades, ect,
the rest is someones imagination.

Amityville horror : supposedly based on a true story ,or was it all a hoax? the debate on this one is still strong.

the exorcism of emily rose also based on true events,
an american haunting .. also based on true events.

the movie producers will not say THis is a true story , those are called documentries not horror movies,
when they say true events it just means that someone of something inspired them for the movie .. Ed gaines was the basis of the character for leather face .

theres even some question if the Exorcist was a real story only it was a little boy not a girl who was possessed.
hope this info gives u a better insight on the True events question .

oh ya dont forgot to check under your bed !!! lol

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Answer 4

About as much truth as the Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees case.
I don't believe for a second that woman was telling the truth.
There are many reasons to believe that Bradley John Murdoch is an innocent man serving time in prison.
Too many things just don't add up.
Especially the fact that the alleged killer was supposed to have been just metres from Where Joanne Lees was hiding in the bushes with his dog beside him.
There is NO WAY that the dog wouldn't have known she was there.
When all the other facts are taken into account including the secret affair I'm surprised the whole world doesn't doubt her story.

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how much truth is based on the film wolf creek?
I'v read the stories about it but don't no what to believe what does everyone else think??

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I believe you mean it the other way around: On how much truth is the film Wolf Creek based?

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Its an old Hollywood trick. Take for example "The Strangers" SPOILER ALERT!! Its "based on a true story" how would anyone know what happened in that house? We, as the audience get to witness the people creeping in and the acts of violence, but how would anybody REALLY know what happened if there were no survivors? The only thing based on facts is that three people were found dead. Everything else is subject to your imagination. So I could tell you they were abducted by Elvis impersonators and whisked away to the planet of Uber-Conservatives where they were all probed relentlessly before their lifeless bodies were dumped in that house, and say it was "based on a true story" and technically Id be telling the truth. Its all in weeding the major BS from the minor BS.

Answer 8

Absolutely no truth was based on the film. The film, however, was based upon several well-publicised murderers, including the guy who killed Peter Falconio.

Answer 9

i saw that at the weekend. What a scary film. the scariest bit was at the end when they told you that the man got off with it. Unbelievable
Don't know how much truth was in it tho'

Answer 10

The way the characters die are loosely based on NSW's backpacker killer Ivan Milat - how he tortured and murdered his victims and also the death of backpacker Peter Falconio which is more about the location.

Answer 11

not a lot. It's VERY loosly based on Ivan Milat. (backpack killer from Australia). The marketing people knew it would sound better with the "based on a true story" tag on it. (like Texas Chainsaw Massacre).