The film was temporarily banned in the Northern Territory in 2005 over concerns that its exhibition could prejudice Murdoch’s trial. Wolf Creek freely incorporates details from these crimes in the characterisation of its menacing outback killer Mick Taylor (played by John Jarratt), including Murdoch’s use of a cable tie to restrain his victim, and Milat’s severing of his victims’ spines. Murdoch was convicted and given a 28-year sentence in 2005. He shot and killed Falconio, and assaulted and attempted to kidnap Lees, trussing her up and putting her in the back of his pick-up before she managed to escape. In 2001, Bradley John Murdoch flagged down the VW Kombi van of British couple Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees as they were driving along the Stuart Highway in Australia’s Northern Territory. Like the Birnies, he preyed on hitchhikers, especially foreign tourists – two British women, and three Germans among them. Milat murdered seven people between 19, beating, stabbing, and shooting his victims and burying them in Belanglo state forest in New South Wales.
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Posters claimed the movie was “based on true events”, and the plot has similarities with the crimes of the so-called backpacker murderer Ivan Milat, and those of West Australian truck driver Bradley John Murdoch. Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek made an international splash in 2005 with a horror story about three backpackers (including two Brits) who are hunted by a killer in the Australian outback.
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Hounds of Love is only the latest in a series of Australian films that draw on gruesome true-crime stories, and not always without controversy. Photograph: Best Fx/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock “It is disappointing because I just want them forgotten.”īogeyman … John Jarratt as Outback scourge Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek. “I feel taken advantage of and confused,” she told the West Australian in July last year. The survivor of the Birnies’ crimes, Kate Moir – now a mother of three – is aware of the similarities, and has criticised the film-makers for drawing on her story, suggesting that Young ought to have used “his own imagination”. I even looked up the house that the Birnie murders took place in on one of those real-estate websites and the layout of the house in Hounds of Love is almost identical.” Australian film curator and scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas – who has written extensively on violence and rape in horror and exploitation cinema – says: “It’s incomprehensible to me to look at this as anything other than a true-crime movie: the details are too close, too similar. International audiences may not be familiar with the details of the Perth couple’s predations, but from an Australian perspective the similarities are clear. I looked up the Birnie house on a real-estate website and the layout of the house in Hounds of Love is almost identical Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Reports from early in the film’s production, however, suggest that the Birnies in particular were very much on the film-makers’ minds. Writer-director Ben Young has said that he drew on accounts of nine different murderous couples in developing the script, which explores the psychological dependencies that lead female killers to assist their partners in murder. The film-makers, for their part, strongly resist the suggestion that Hounds is a true-crime story. Critics have been unable to avoid comparisons with the Birnies. A vicious dog features prominently in the film’s action, as do chains, a broken window and sleeping pills.
In the new Australian thriller Hounds of Love, a teenage girl is kidnapped and terrorised by a murderous couple in Perth in December 1987. It’s not surprising that they might eventually be used as inspiration by the nation’s film-makers. The Birnies’ infamous crimes have acquired an archetypal force in the landscape of Australian terror: the menace hiding behind the bland facades and baking concrete of endless suburban streets. They were each sentenced to life in prison (David Birnie killed himself in 2005 Catherine Birnie remains incarcerated). When, after hours of interrogation, David Birnie led police to a series of graves in Gleneagle national park, he and Catherine proved to have abducted, raped, and killed four young women in a five-week period in 1986. Emma Booth and Stephen Curry as the murderous kidnappers in Hounds of Love.
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