Loosely based on the "backpack murders," a string of real-life serial killings that terrorized the Australian Outback during the late '80s and early '90s, director Greg McLean's feature debut is easily one of the most brutally realistic horror movies since the original TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974). Set in 1999 and fusing the details of separate incidents that took place along Australia's long and lonely Hume highway into a single, terrifying ordeal, the film follows the fates of two English women and the young Australian man they meet while enjoying two weeks of sun, surf and Smirnoff on Australia's West Coast. Driving back through the deserted stretches of outbac...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
98 mins