Bosque de sombras (BackWoods) (2006)

Posted : 3 weeks, 6 days ago at Oct 29 9:46

Sometimes films just go too far in trying to be different. Occasionally this can be seen by horrible, "experimental" or "artistic" camerawork, improvised scripts or at worst, black and white scenes with übercontrast. Just something that attempts to differentiate the film in question from the others of it's kind. Backwoods (known as Bosque des Sombras for everyone who loves original titles) tries too hard in a different way. It's a film about two couples who go to Spain to a cabin to hunt some rabbits and stuff, they find a little girl locked in an abandoned house, then the people who locked her up come after her. That's what the film is about, but it tries really, really hard to deny that. Apparently director/co-writer Koldo Serra found that he didn't want to make a film that was essentia...Read more

Rating : 7/10

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago at May 24 6:39

The summary gives an accurate account of the story, so I won't get into it :)

Gary Oldman just looks way old in this film (like 80-90 years old, but he's not of course), the make-up artists didn't do much good for him! Considine's character is the only one that makes any sense and his instincts should be trusted; however, if they were, there wouldn't be a film...
Ledoyen's acting (or no-acting) is bad. The fact that the film pictures submissive women is annoying and bothering.

I honestly can't find anything that makes this film worth watching.


Rating : 2/10

Posted : 2 years, 12 months ago at Nov 28 6:45

Auch Spanien hat einsame Häuser in weitläufigen, nahezu menschenleeren Wäldern, ideal also für einen Hinterwäldler-Horrorfilm. Das aus diesem Setting ein ganz ordentlicher Film (mit relativ wenig Horror) wurde liegt mehr am Regisseur und den Darstellern als an der nach Schema F gestrickten Story. Die Darsteller spielen ihre Rollen überzeugend, schaffen es jedoch nicht beim Zuseher Sympathie für ihre Situation zu wecken. Die Inszenierung ist flott und vor allem optisch gut umgesetzt, kann die Spannung, aber nicht die ganze Filmlänge über aufrechterhalten. Um wirklich aus der Masse der Horrorfilme heraus zu stechen ist der Film zu wenig originär spanisch, einsame Waldhütten und misstrauische Dorfbewohner findet man fast in jedem Land. Fazit: Eine handwerklich...Read more

Rating : 4/10