Backcountry
2014 · Movie · R · 92 min · ★ 6.0 · 77% critics
A couple goes hiking deep in the wilderness and quickly loses their bearings. Trapped in an aggressive bear’s territory, their survival becomes a race against both the terrain and the animal’s relentless presence.
Also known as Blackfoot Trail
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Details
- Years
- 2014
- Release date
- 2015-03-20
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 (725 votes)
About
If you want a tense, lost-in-the-woods survival thriller with intense bear peril and a gloomy wilderness vibe, Backcountry may fit; Not for you if you dislike slow build-ups or find distracting camera motion hard to tolerate, especially compared with The Shallows or Pyewacket.
Pros: intense survival tension; great bear moments; eerie wilderness | Cons: slow buildup; distracting camera; thin storyline
Themes
- camping
- animal attack
- grave
- gore
- canoe
- based on true story
- woods
- survival
- bear
- ontario, canada
- nature
- bear attack
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Cast & crew
Missy Peregrym
as Jenn
Jeff Roop
as Alex
Eric Balfour
as Brad
Nicholas Campbell
as Ranger
Directed by Adam MacDonald