The Backwoods
THE BACKWOODS, for a horror movie is brave from the start. Weighing in at a stonking 2 and a half hours this is not the lightweight, low budget, all blood and ‘teenagers’ horror film that the title might suggest. Instead The Backwoods harks back to the best cult classics. Directed by the highly acclaimed Koldo Serra, who has collected several awards in European festivals over the past decade, and starring not 1 but 2 BAFTA winners.
The plot sets out during the summer of 1978 where Norman (Paddy Considine) and Lucy (Virginia Ledoyen) are spending the summer holidays with their friend Paul (Gary Oldman) in the north of Spain. Very much off the beaten track, they seem set for a peaceful holiday. But remembering this a horror film things take a descent into horror when they discover a deformed girl locked away in a cabin in the woods. Filthy and unable to talk, the girl is obviously terrified and so the couple decide to take her to the police. A group of local villagers however have other ideas and refuse to let the girl go, pursing the holidaymakers through the forest and taking them into a whirlpool of violence.
THE BACKWOODS, a dark tale of revenge set for DVD release on 19 May 2008 courtesy of Momentum Pictures.
Popularity: 44% [?]
