An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.
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Kinda stuffy/stiff 1970’s set backwoods jam with some decent forest atmos, Gary Oldman hunting, and everyone fighting... but even nicely shot rainy forests and a miscast Oldman aren’t enough to save this from that shitty rape scene or hiw easily (and quickly) this movie tiptoes right into boredom territory.
Straw Do.....nkeys.
The Backwoods is a survival/thriller movie with a pretty stacked cast, (with Gary Oldman and Paddy Considine playing two of the leads), and an interesting premise, but despite these things it still managed to fall short in a lot of ways. It is about two couples that take a vacation in a cabin deep in the woods of Basque Country in Spain. Once there, they stumble upon a little girl, who is very clearly disabled from inbreeding, locked in a decrepit cabin. They decide to take her from there, which results in the locals coming down on them hard.
Now, the things that I did like about it were really surface level. It was an effectively tense thriller that kept…
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Man, nothing good ever happens deep in the woods in a foreign country, too many hidden secrets. If you see an abandoned cabin, just walk away. Don't go snooping around! Life lessons...
The Backwoods is a film that plays out exactly as expected, we've all seen this movie before, but under different names. Strangers in a strange town, they uncover a secret, town gets upset, violence and death seize the day. Sorta like a cross between Straw Dogs and 2018's Calibre, with a strong Deliverance vibe. I always get unreasonably frustrated with movies like this. I know it wouldn't make for a very good watch,…
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Not as backwoods and I was hoping.
The film in itself is decent enough, Gary Oldmans character is someone you would want with you in a situation like this.
The other couple frustrated the life out of me, thanks for those two streaks of misery.
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The Backwoods has a lot going for it. A mixture between Straw Dogs and Deliervance, but ultimately packs no real or actual context for that matter compared to either predecessor. The events are played out before the audience but with no real explanation or exploration of character motives, or story. It’s all a little flat and dull. It take all you on a journey of sorts, that’s fair to say, but with no real avail. Oldman and Considine put forward decent performances, as do Ledoyen and Gijon but their isn’t anything here to really scream and shout about. It showcases moments of emotional value, but it’s too shallow and far too infrequent.
50
Ehhhh. At least it had Gary Oldman.
Tense, but lacking an emotional core.
The film follows two English couples who head out into the Spanish backwooods to stay in a family cabin only to find a feral girl locked up in an abandoned house nearby.
The only thing I really knew about this movie going in was that Gary Oldman was in it, and he thankfully turns in a solid performance, as does most of the cast (even if their characters are brain dead at best). The cast here is the highpoint, with the Spanish villagers being fittingly creepy and off-putting (even if one of the villains takes it to the extreme for one scene). Sadly, the script the cast was given wasn't the best, and it…
Pretty standard stuff with some irritating relationship shenanigans going on. Paddy Considine comes across as a bit of a whimpering quim, whilst Gary Oldman gets to speak Spanish and shoot bunny wabbits.
"It's isolated out 'ere. Chances are we won't see another soul all day."
For some reason this camping in the woods gone wrong thriller is set in the 1970s? It makes a point of it, but aside from what I imagine being an unimaginative way of cutting cellphones and internet out the equation, there is absolutely no point. The Backwoods, lives up to its title, seeing Gary Oldman, Paddy Considine, and their character wives survive through their own sort of Northern Spain iteration of Straw Dogs, when they discover something unimaginable in a hidden cabin. Along with it come the expected stereotypical dichotomy of the city vs country, a jargon barrier (in this case seeing Gary Oldman do about 75% of…
In the 1970's (for some reason) two couples travel to Spain to visit the childhood home of one of the men and seem to be having difficulties in everything they try to do whether it's one couple bickering or unfriendly townsfolk. They take another step down when they discover a deformed looking girl locked in a room and decide to try and take her to safety. The Backwoods doesn't really do much that hasn't been done before and is plagued by annoying characters and a rapey scene, but the cast includes a very beautiful Virginie Ledoyen as the wife in the younger couple, Lluís Homar as one of the townsfolk, and the always entertaining Gary Oldman. It felt like it…
Sometimes I marvel at how big name actors end up in the films they do. Gary Oldman in this movie just does not make sense.
