This is not your average, everyday horror flick. This is a serious effort by a group of very talented people to leave you with a very chilling feeling. And it works most of the time. The brilliance is that it understands how to make a character relatable and why you should care. The first half of the movie is dedicated to building 3 dimensional characters whom you fall in love with. It almosts feels like a road trip movie at first. Even the killer has a personality and is not your normal grunting masked killer who we see time and time again. Part of that is due to the setting of the Australian Outback, which I feel we really don’t see enough in movies. The shots in this film are beautiful and really add to the creepiness and lonliness at points. Its dissapointing that a lot of people seemed to miss this one because of the violence. And while the script isn’t really all there, it feels like most of this was left to improv, every character has its moment. It earned the most points however, by not falling to the normal cliche’s a movie like this does most of the time.
