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Greg McLean Greg McLean i(A91234 works by)
Gender: Male
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Greg McLean is a graduate of NIDA. He has written and directed feature films.

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y separately published work icon Origin Wolf Creek : Origin Melbourne : Penguin Books , 2014 6840306 2014 single work novel horror

'Nature vs nurture turns out to be a bloodbath

'The wide open outback offers plenty of space for someone to hide. Or to hide a body.

'When wiry youngster Mick Taylor starts as a jackaroo at a remote Western Australian sheep station, he tries to keep his head down among the rough company of the farmhands. But he can't keep the devils inside him hidden for long.

'It turns out he's not the only one with the killer impulse – and the other psychopaths don't appreciate competition. Is Cutter, the station's surly shooter, on to him? And what are the cops really up to as they follow the trail of the dead?

'In the first of a blood-soaked series of Wolf Creek prequel novels, the cult film's writer/director Greg Mclean and horror writer Aaron Sterns take us back to the beginning, when Mick was a scrawny boy, the only witness to the grisly death of his little sister. Origin provides an unforgettably bloody answer to the question of nature vs nurture. What made Mick Taylor Australian horror's most terrifying psycho killer?' (Publisher's blurb)

2014 winner Australian Shadows Award Novel
form y separately published work icon Rogue ( dir. Greg McLean ) Australia : Emu Creek Pictures , 2007 Z1405120 2007 single work film/TV thriller horror (taught in 1 units)

Tourists taking a crocodile-watching river cruise in Kakadu National Park find themselves trapped in the territory of a large, aggressive salt-water crocodile.

2007 nominated AWGIE Awards Film Award Original
form y separately published work icon Wolf Creek ( dir. Greg McLean ) Australia : Roadshow Entertainment , 2005 Z1561409 2005 single work film/TV horror thriller (taught in 5 units)

Inspired in part by some unsolved murders in the Australian outback, and by the gruesome backpacker murders committed by Ivan Milat in NSW during the late 1980s/early 1990s, Wolf Creek tells the story of three young backpackers, Ben Mitchell, an Australian, and Liz Hunter and Kristy Earl, both English. Although the girls don't know Ben all that well, he and Liz fancy each other. After buying a car in Broome, situated in the far north coast of Western Australia, the trio head east with the intention of driving across the top end to Cairns (Queensland). At the end of their first day in the desert, their car breaks down at a deserted tourist site - the large crater of a meteorite. Later that night a truck arrives, driven by a real outback character, Mick Taylor. He tows them to his isolated camp at an abandoned mine site, promising to fix their car. All three tourists fall asleep after Mick drugs them. When Liz wakes up, she is bound and gagged and her friends are missing and the nightmare begins.

2005 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Original Screenplay
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