The best way to watch Adam MacDonald’s Backcountry is to go in not knowing anything about it. BACKCOUNTRY is a bare-bones, low-budget, uninteresting thriller where a twentysomething couple gets lost in the woods on a distant hiking trip and face the threat of death from a bear and nature.
September 28, 2016 @ 12:22 am Bliz. Backcountry is a good example how one simple premise can still be thrilling with clever production and a few grisly scenes. Backcountry has a calming, scenic backdrop worth mention, though it isn't filmed with much more artistry than any other woods-set tale. Once the frantic climax approaches, these laconic shots are interrupted by a shaky cinema verite approach that feels amateurish (I swear one scene was filmed with a go-pro), and fails to create it's desired panicked aesthetic. After a long run of camp with films like Grizzly and Grizzly Park, Backcountry nails it with a unflinching and serious take on survival and forest horror. Writer-director Adam MacDonald’s Backcountry is an intense thriller that may make you permanently postpone the camping trip in the woods you were planning on taking. Such a tragically ragged-on film. Backcountry movie review, this is a visual and aural piece of cinema that gets dragged down by its story. A backpacking trip goes horrifyingly wrong when a couple strays off-trail. Backcountry Critics Consensus. Stories from real people who are blending the outdoors with the everyday, the latest information about gear we love, advice to get you into a new activity or take your passion to the next level, and trip reports to help you plan your next adventure. Movie Review: ‘Backcountry’ The Times critic Manohla Dargis reviews “Backcountry.” Backcountry is director Adam Macdonald's first feature length film and it is evident in the second half of the feature. But the point of Backcountry isn’t to get involved with the characters. transcript. SHARES. Directed by Adam MacDonald. Using scenery and only minimum amount of characters, it succeeds on creating the sense of isolation and overwhelming helplessness. Released by IFC Midnight.
September 10, 2015 @ 8:38 am garrot “Stick It” was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up for all the wrong reasons. Read Perri's Backcountry review from TIFF 2014; Adam MacDonald’s disturbingly brilliant feature directorial debut starring Missy Peregrym and Jeff Roop. Jenn is able to get away and spends the last twenty-five plus minutes of the movie trying desperately to stay alive and get out of the woods without food, water, or a map. The husband may be cocky and naive, and handle the bear (and trip in general) in a less than optimal fashion, but Backcountry avoids the typical horror movie tropes of dumb decisions for the sake of protecting the plot. For a debut film, Backcountry is incredibly ambitious and most of that ambition is met with success. Articles Slideshows English Articles. Written and directed by Adam MacDonald 2015, 91 minutes, Not Rated Movie premiered on March 20th, 2015. If Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary Grizzly Man didn’t drive home the fact that bears in the wild are not our friends, then Backcountry will definitely get the point across. Latest Movie Trailers Interviews Movie Review Videos Anchor Cuts Nettv4u Videos Sillaakki Dumma Videos Shortflims. Share Tweet. BACKCOUNTRY is poorly made and has a strong humanist worldview with arrogant, hedonistic, unappealing pagan characters, brief but extreme violence and plenty of strong foul language. Full Review C.H. Unfortunately the movie does not continue on with the tense, agoraphobic atmosphere it has created. An urban couple go camping in the woods and find themselves lost in the territory of a predatory black bear. Shaky cam is used to almost nauseating heights. With Jeff Roop, Missy Peregrym, Nicholas Campbell, Eric Balfour. Home » Review » Movie » Backcountry. Movie Review: ‘Backcountry’ The Times critic Manohla Dargis reviews “Backcountry.” Backcountry also ranks 9th among Camping sites. Backcountry Stories. Not to make an unfair comparison to a classic, but the movie “Deliverance” actually followed through on all of the themes that its storyline suggested, while in “Backcountry,” we end up with a storyline in which all but the most elemental stuff winds up as window dressing. ‘BACKCOUNTRY’ – Movie Review In Backcountry, real-life couple Jacqueline Perry and Mark Jordan’s struggles to survive a bear attack in the back country of Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park are represented by fictional characters Jen (Missy Peregrym) and Alex (Jeff Roop).