The idea of backpacking through the Australian wilderness might sound fun for some, but for anyone who's seen the Wolf Creek movies, it probably sends a few chills down your spine. In the '90s, a man named Ivan Milat (later known as the Backpack Killer) would hunt down campers in remote areas of Australia so he could torture and kill them in gruesome ways. One woman was decapitated, another was found shot in the head 10 times, and her companion had been stabbed so brutally that it seems likely she was paralyzed midattack while he continued to wound her. He murdered seven people in total and was sentenced to six years imprisonment for an attack on a man who survived and then seven consecutive life sentences for each of the other murders.
If that doesn't frighten you, you should give Wolf Creek a watch. Milat inspired the terrifying franchise, which spawned two films and one TV miniseries and follows the activities of Mick Taylor (John Jarratt, pictured above), a psychotic man in the Outback who kidnaps and brutally tortures a group of young backpackers.
