Rogue
Short description
Rogue follows an American travel journalist, Pete McKell, who joins a river cruise through a national park in Australia's Northern Territory. He and the other passengers, led by guide Kate Ryan, are stranded on a small island in the middle of the water after their boat is damaged, and they find themselves sharing the territory with a large crocodile. With the tide rising and night approaching, the group has to find a way to survive.
Greg McLean directed and wrote the film, which sits between his debut Wolf Creek and its sequel Wolf Creek 2 in his filmography. Alongside McLean, the producers were David Lightfoot and Matt Hearn. Radha Mitchell plays Kate and Michael Vartan plays Pete, with Sam Worthington, Caroline Brazier, Stephen Curry and Celia Ireland among the supporting cast. The film was made for about 20 million US dollars and took around 5 million dollars worldwide.
Audience scores for Rogue are modest and split by platform: it holds a 4.9 rating from 80 votes on IMDb and a 6.3 from 792 votes on TMDB. A film critics' rating of 7.3 from 18 reviews places critical opinion considerably higher than the audience scores on either site, though the small number of votes and reviews means these figures should be read with caution.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on real events. Between 1974 and 1979, a 5-meter-long saltwater crocodile appeared in Australia, attacking motor and rowboats, and fishing vessels, but it did not eat a single person. Hunters eventually managed to catch the reptile, but during transportation, the crocodile drowned. Its stuffed remains are now on display at the Northern Territory Museum (a constituent entity of the Australian Federation).
- Filming of the scene in which Sam Worthington’s character falls into the water had to be postponed due to reports that a 5-meter crocodile had been spotted nearby. The actor refused to get into the water, and after several hours, director Greg McLean himself jumped into the water and swam to shore to show Worthington that there was no danger. The scene was filmed, and it was only later discovered that the reptile had been found several weeks earlier and moved to another area.
- The bar’s walls are decorated with genuine crocodile photographs.
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