![]() She watches the playback on one of them and is horrified to see Mick "rescuing" other travelers stranded at Wolf Creek in almost identical circumstances to her own. Liz enters another garage and discovers Mick's large stock of cars as well as an organized array of travelers' possessions, including video cameras. Liz leaves the hysterical Kristy outside the gates, telling her to escape on foot if she does not return in five minutes. The girls evade Mick by rolling his truck off a cliff and hiding behind a bush, before returning to the mining site to get another car. The women attempt to flee the camp in Mick's truck, but a wounded Mick stumbles out of the garage and shoots at them with a double-barreled shotgun, before giving chase in another truck. When he returns Liz manages to shoot Mick with his own rifle, the bullet hitting him in the neck and apparently killing him. Liz sets the now-dismantled Falcon on fire to distract him, and goes to help Kristy while Mick is busy trying to extinguish the blaze. She manages to break free as night falls, but before she can escape from the mining site, she hears Mick torturing Kristy in a garage, and witnesses him sexually assault her. Liz awakens late the next afternoon to find herself tied up in a shed. While they sit around a fire, Mick gives the tourists drugged water which eventually causes them to fall unconscious. His manner unsettles Liz and Kristy, although Ben is less concerned. Mick regales them with tall stories of his past while making a show of fixing their car. Initially hesitant, the group allows Mick to take them to his place, an abandoned mining site several hours south of Wolf Creek. After dark, a rural man named Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) comes across them and offers to tow them to his camp to repair the car. ![]() Unable to solve the problem, they prepare to sit out the night. ![]() Hours later, upon returning to their car, the group discovers that their watches have all suddenly broken and that the car will not start. While exploring the crater, Ben and Liz kiss. Ben buys a dilapidated Ford XD Falcon for their road journey from Broome to Cairns, Queensland via the Great Northern Highway.Īfter stopping at Halls Creek for the night, the trio make another stop at Wolf Creek National Park, which contains a giant crater formed by a 50,000-ton meteorite. Currently in Broome, Western Australia, they constantly get drunk at wild, extravagant pool parties and camp out on the beach. In Australia in 1999, two British tourists, Liz Hunter (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy Earl (Kestie Morassi), are backpacking across the country with Ben Mitchell (Nathan Phillips), an Australian friend from Sydney.
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