Wolf Creek vs Wolf Creek 2

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Definitely 2. More intense, more rewatchable, more action, and a better final boy

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The first movie is a classic. The second, it's good, but it's nowhere near as good as the first. It got better in the second half of the movie, and I would have been happy for most of the movie to take place in that underground location. Mick Taylor is a classic movie psychopath, but I felt they made him a little bit of a caricature of him in Wolf Creek 2. Too much emphasis was made of his twisted laugh. It didn't feel natural the way it did in the first movie. I enjoyed Wolf Creek 2, but it was a little over-the-top and silly at times, and it didn't need to be.

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Wolf Creek 2 for sure

It's been a long time. I shouldn't have left you, without a dope post to step to

I think Mick is a bit overcooked in the second one, his narcissism was well balanced and genuinely sinister in the first but he has become a caricature of that and comes off a bit comical, kind of like what happened to Freddy in Nightmare, you start having to suspend disbelief too much. Jeff Jarret is the big talking point for what he brings, but the character needed more distance from the screen, to add a bit more ominous mystery to it, the sense of foreboding unseen danger lurking in the shadows, Mick feels too exposed and present, like he has lost the fear, and that doesn't fit with what I know about serial killers.

The first one was a snooze fest. I'm about to watch pt 2 in the next day or so. Can't be worse than the first one. Nothing can.

"I had my time where I wondered if this was all in my head. That time passed". - Rustin Cohle

Of course the lowest common denominator will go for the sequel, ie. those who go for the gorefest. TRUE appreciators of what makes a good horror film will go for the original as we all know that the suspense and sense of uneasiness (what you DON'T see, as opposed to what you DO see) is the true marker of success in the genre.

Wolf Creek 2 just stretched it it waaaay beyond credibility, right into the territory of tripe such as Saw.