The Backwoods (2006)

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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 ... read more

In my opinion, anything involving Gary Oldman is worth a look and it has been maybe 8 years since I have seen a movie with Virginie Ledoyen so thre were enough reasons to watch this flick. Well, eventually, I thought it was not bad and it reminded me of 'Straw dogs' and 'Deliverance' even if this movie never reached the level of those two classics. Gary Oldman, as usual, kicked some ass and delive... read more

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 Zusehe... read more

Ledoyen and Considine play a young married couple at the end of the 1970s, who come to visit a friend (Oldman) who now lives in the Basque region because he has married a woman from there (Sánchez-Gijón). Their tranquil summer turns to horror when they discover a girl with horribly mutilated hands in the forest. They try to help her by taking her away from the home in which she is locked, but the local villagers, who have to protect the girl, start a pursuit in the forest they know much better than the visitors.