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. On July 14, 2001, British tourists Peter Falconio (then 28) and Joanne Lees (who in October 2006 finally launched her book, the only true story!) travelled on the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs in the direction of Darwin. 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. I've seen outcries on travel forums by young English backpackers: "Oh my god, what are they doing to us?" Excuse me? They? As in us Australians? Or what?Īnyway, for those who have trouble separating fact from fiction, here is Wolf Creek, the true story.
#WOLF CREEK MOVIE#
The movie tagline says, " Based on true events." So what's the Wolf Creek true story? How close is the movie to Australian Outback reality? The horror starts there, and I won't tell you any more in case you haven't seen the movie. They spend the night there, wake up the next morning and this is when they realise that he is not the friendly bushman they thought. He tows their car to his camp, an abandoned old mine site.
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They accept help from a seemingly friendly local bushman. In the Wolf Creek movie story three young backpackers in their twenties return from a hike in Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback to find that their car won't start.
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The actual name of the remote meteorite crater on the edge of the Kimberley and the Great Sandy Desert is Wolfe Creek. The scenic Wolfe Creek National Park in the Western Australian Outback has never received so much attention, even though the movie title misspells it. This true story of a murder in the Australian Outback influenced the Wolf Creek movie and five books are on their way.