94. WOLF CREEK
 
Australia
dir. Greg McLean
world premiere 2005
U.S. release 2005

 

 
Because there is no sense to the trip, or the attraction, or the humor, or the breakdown, or the arrival, or the captation, or the sadism, or the deaths, or the survival. The single edit from unnerving mishap to ghastly catastrophe really knocks the wind out of you, and the whole film is shot and shaped with such precision that the arbitrariness of horror packs a punch.