Wolf Creek series creator and director Greg McClean talks about the influence of Stephen King
With the new Wolf Creek series premiering this Friday, October 14th on Pop (10pm EST/PST), we managed to get our hands on an exclusive and very cool little clip of Wolf Creek series creator and director of both theatrical feature films (as well as the director of The Darkness and the upcoming The Belko Experiment) Greg McClean discussing one of his key creative influences: horror literature God and pop culture mainstay Stephen King.
Wolf Creek stars John Jarratt, who reprises his movie role as the murdering psychopath Mick Taylor, wreaking havoc in the Australian Outback—except this time, things are different. The television series immediately turns the entire genre on its head when a 19-year-old American college student, played by rising star Lucy Fry, survives the massacre of her parents and little brother and sets out to hunt down the killer and avenge her family.
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Based on true events, the original Wolf Creek movie was introduced in 2005 at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals before achieving global box office success and cult film status among horror fans around the world.
The prolific McLean is a hero of contemporary “Ozploitation” filmmaking and the clip below reveals that without King, there might not be a Wolf Creek at all….
