“It was based on two real killers in Australia…it’s a combination of Bradley Murdoch and Ivan Milat,” McLean told Starburst Magazine ahead of the release of “Wolf Creek 2.” After a life of crime, including killing someone due to dangerous driving, Murdoch murdered an English backpacker named Peter Falconio in July 2001. He is still alive and serving a life sentence. Miliat was a serial killer who kidnapped, assaulted, robbed and murdered two men and five women between 1989 and 1992. He targeted backpackers and offered to drive them to New South Wales, but instead went to a state forest local to kill. them. Miliat is suspected of having committed numerous other murders in Australia, but this remains to be proven. He died in prison in 2019.
By incorporating the easily identifiable “friendly” personas of Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee into two of Australia’s worst offenders, McLean created a particular brand of insidiousness. “It’s really a combination of what the international perception of the Australian personality is, and then also this hidden side of that personality that is also dark and negative. It’s kind of an interesting combination of those two things: l “iconography and the repressed side of the country” All I can think about now is the terrifying possibility that “Wolf Creek 3” could incorporate a twisted version of the iconography of Australia’s most popular import. , Bluey.
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