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Wolf Creek 2
''Wolf Creek 2'' is a 2013 Australian horror film co-written and directed by Greg McLean. The film is a sequel to the 2005 film '' Wolf Creek'' and stars John Jarratt, reprising his role as Mick Taylor. It was released on 30 August 2013 at the Venice Film Festival, then released in Australia on 20 February 2014. The film follows a young German couple, and a British tourist, who fall victim to the kidnapping and torture of Mick Taylor, a deranged xenophobic killer, while travelling in the Australian outback. Similar to the 2005 film, the plot is based upon the real-life murders of backpackers by Ivan Milat in the 1990s and Bradley Murdoch in 2001. The film received mixed reviews from critics, praising the acting from Jarratt and Corr, but criticism for the violence and gore. The film grossed over $4.7 million at the Australian box office. A third film, ''Wolf Creek 3'', is currently in development. Plot In North Western Australia, highway patrol officers Gary Bulmer and Brian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg McLean (film Director)
Greg McLean is an Australian film director, producer and writer, best known for his work in horror films. He rose to fame in 2005 with his debut feature film, ''Wolf Creek (film), Wolf Creek'', creating one of Australia's most memorable and horrific characters, Mick Taylor (fictional character), Mick Taylor (played by John Jarratt). The long-awaited sequel to his first feature, ''Wolf Creek 2'' was released February 2013. Mclean also wrote, directed and produced ''Rogue (2007 film), Rogue'' (2007) and was executive producer of ''Red Hill (film), Red Hill'' (2010) and ''Crawlspace (2012 film), Crawlspace'' (2012). He is also the co-author of two novels about the fictional character Mick Taylor; ''Wolf Creek: Origin'' (with Aaron Sterns) and ''Wolf Creek: Desolation Game'' (with Brett McBean) and the four-part comic book series ''Dark Axis: Secret Battles of WW2'' and the graphic novel ''Sebastian Hawks – Creature Hunter.'' In 2016, his film, ''The Darkness (film), The Darkness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradley Murdoch
Bradley John Murdoch (born 19 February 1958) is an Australian criminal serving life imprisonment for the July 2001 murder of English backpacker Peter Falconio in Australia. He will be 74 when eligible for parole in 2032. Murdoch is being held in Darwin Correctional Centre in Darwin, Northern Territory.Falconi murderer moved to Alice Springs Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 25 August 2007 He has lodged two appeals against his conviction, both of which were unsuccessful. The refused special leave to appeal on 21 June 2007. He is forbidden to talk to the press. Early life Murdo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogue (2007 Film)
''Rogue'' is a 2007 Australian independent horror film written, produced and directed by Greg McLean, about a group of tourists in Australia who fall prey to a giant, man-eating crocodile. It stars Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, and Sam Worthington. The film was inspired by the true story of Sweetheart, a giant male saltwater crocodile that attacked boats in the late 1970s, although Sweetheart was never responsible for an attack on a human. ''Rogue'' received positive reviews from critics, but was a commercial failure. It is the second and last film from Dimension Films to have the involvement of Village Roadshow Pictures, the other being 1992's ''Fortress''. Plot American travel journalist Pete McKell (Michael Vartan) joins a small group of tourists on a crocodile-watching river cruise in Kakadu National Park of Australia's Northern Territory, led by wildlife researcher Kate Ryan ( Radha Mitchell). Toward the end of the cruise, Everett ( Robert Taylor) spots a flare in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Byron
Annie Byron is an AFI Award-winning Australian film, stage, and television actress best known for ''Wolf Creek 2'', ''Fran'', ''Muriel's Wedding'', and ''Doing Time for Patsy Cline''. Early life Byron was born in Inverell, Australia. She attended primary school at St. Mary's Ross Hill Primary School and Sacred Heart Primary School, then high school at St. Ursula's College in Armidale and Inverell High School. She graduated with a scholarship to the University of New South Wales, where she earned an Arts degree with Honors in Drama. After graduating university, she enrolled in the National Institute of Dramatic Art along with Steve Bisley, Debra Lawrence, Robert Menzies, Peter Kingston, Judy Davis, and Mel Gibson. Career Byron was cast as Lou, the second wife of Harry Sullivan in the Australian television series The Sullivans the year after graduating from NIDA. She has since worked in numerous film, television, theatre and radio productions in Australia for over 30 year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Kennedy (actor)
Gerard Kennedy (born 8 March 1932) is an Australian double Gold Logie award-winning actor, best known for his roles in early television series. His career spanned 50 years in the industry.} Career Kennedy played six different characters in guest appearances in Crawford Productions television series ''Homicide'' and in 1967 he shot to fame as the antagonist in Australian television spy drama ''Hunter'', becoming so popular that his character changed sides, eventually becoming the main character after lead actor Tony Ward left the series. Kennedy won a TV Week Logie Award for 'Best New Talent' for his portrayal of the character. Kennedy followed this with a starring role in police procedural television series, ''Division 4'', winning multiple Logie Awards—including two Gold Logies as most popular personality on Australian TV—for his work in the series. He has consistently acted in Australian television and film productions since that time. Later regular television series rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Gerrard
Ben Gerrard (born 15 August 1988) is an Australian actor. He is known for his role as Toby in the ABC television series '' Outland'' (2012). He also appeared as Constable Brian O'Connor in ''Wolf Creek 2'' (2013) and as multiple characters on the sketch comedy series ''Open Slather'' (2015). Gerrard played 35 characters in the one-man show ''I Am My Own Wife'', which debuted in 2015. In 2016, he played Molly Meldrum Ian Alexander "Molly" Meldrum AM (born 29 January 1943) is an Australian music critic, journalist, record producer and musical entrepreneur. He was the talent co-ordinator, on-air interviewer, and music news presenter on the former popular mus ...'s transgender friend Caroline Jenkins in the two-part miniseries '' Molly'', for which he was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in Television Drama. Gerrard graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) in 2006. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerrard, Ben Living people 21s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Connor
Shane Connor (born 3 April 1959) also billed/credited as Shane Feeney-Connor, is an Australian actor, who has had extensive experience in stage, television and film productions, both locally and internationally in the United Kingdom and United States. Connor is probably best known for his role in TV serial ''Neighbours'' as patriarch Joe Scully Connor has appeared in the Network Ten TV series ''Prisoner'' as well as its re-imagining series ''Wentworth'' on Foxtel. Early life Connor was born in Woodville, South Australia in April 1959 and graduated from University of Melbourne drama division the Victorian College of the Arts in the early 1980s. He worked steadily in film, theatre and television for many years. Career Connor's television credits include the Channel Seven series ''Fire'', the Australian Broadcasting Corporation drama ''Heartland'', the miniseries ''The Harp in the South'' and ''Poor Man's Orange and Halifax f.p.'' (1998). He appeared in the USA television network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashworth Hospital
Ashworth Hospital is a high-security psychiatric hospital in Maghull, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Liverpool. It is a part of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, catering to patients with psychiatric health needs that require treatment in conditions of high security. The hospital is one of only four psychiatric hospitals in the United Kingdom providing psychiatric care within conditions of high security, and one of only three in England (alongside Broadmoor Hospital in Crowthorne and Rampton Secure Hospital near Woodbeck). For Scotland and Northern Ireland, the facility meeting the same high security environment is the State Hospital in Carstairs. Organisation Ashworth is one of the three high-security psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales, alongside Rampton and Broadmoor, that exist to work with people who require treatment due to their "dangerous, violent or criminal propensities", with the majority experiencing psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia, comorbid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punji Stick
The punji stick or punji stake is a type of booby trapped stake. It is a simple spike, made out of wood or bamboo, which is sharpened, heated, and usually set in a hole. Punji sticks are usually deployed in substantial numbers. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (third edition, 2007) lists less frequent, earlier spellings for "punji stake (or stick)": panja, panjee, panjie, panji, and punge. Description Punji sticks would be placed in areas likely to be passed through by enemy troops. The presence of punji sticks may be camouflaged by natural undergrowth, crops, grass, brush or similar materials. They were often incorporated into various types of traps; for example, a camouflaged pit into which a soldier might fall (it would then be a trou de loup). Sometimes a pit would be dug with punji sticks in the sides pointing ''downward'' at an angle. A soldier stepping into the pit would find it impossible to remove their leg without doing severe damage, and injuries might be incurred by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sander
A sander is a power tool used to smooth surfaces by abrasion with sandpaper. Sanders have a means to attach the sandpaper and a mechanism to move it rapidly contained within a housing with means to hand-hold it or fix it to a workbench. Woodworking sanders are usually powered electrically, and those used in auto-body repair work by compressed air. There are many different types of sanders for different purposes. Multi-purpose power tools and electric drills may have sander attachments. Types Types of power sanders include: * Flap sander or sanding flap wheel: A sanding attachment shaped like a Rolodex and used on a hand-held drill or mounted on a bench grinder for finishing curved surfaces. * Belt sander (hand-held or stationary) * Disc sander: A disc sander is most commonly implemented as a stationary machine that consists of a replaceable circular shaped sandpaper attached to a wheel turned by an electric motor or compressed air. The usually wooden work piece, (although ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport
"Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" is a song written by Australian singer Rolf Harris in 1957 which became a hit around the world in the 1960s in two recordings (1960 in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom for the original, and 1963 in the United States with a re-recording of the song). Inspired by Harry Belafonte's calypsos, most noticeably "The Jack-Ass Song", it is about an Australian stockman on his deathbed. Harris originally offered four unknown Australian backing musicians 10% of the royalties for the song in 1960, but they decided to take a recording fee of £28 among them because they thought the song would be a flop. The distinctive sound of Harris's original recording was achieved by the use of an instrument of his own design called the "wobble board"—a two-by-three-foot piece of hardboard. The recording peaked at No. 1 in the Australian charts and was a top 10 hit in the UK in 1960. In 1963, Harris re-recorded the song in the UK with George Martin as pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
