I started watching Wolf Creek on free-to-air television last night. I tossed it in just before the halfway mark because I couldn't stand the interruptions from the advertisements. I'll watch the low-budget horror in the desert film on DVD latter.

I was curious by the commentary about the film being loosely based on Australia's "Backpacker Murders," (false), its debt to the hugely influential "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", the dystopian view of Australia's Outback that is in such contrast to the tourism industry's selling of Australia and the way it subverts a mainstay of Australian outback mythology - the noble white bushman, the loveable rogue.Mick Dundee, Crocodile Dundee, gone real bad.

I saw enough to see the film's unusual narrative structure: a steady, drawn-out first act that establishes the trivial realities of the characters’ and their relationships with one another, followed by a violent, climactic second half. The film's generation of tension and suspense through the cinematic representation of violence would have been completely destroyed by the advertisements.