Missy Peregryn, Jeff Roop…city slickers in the big woods
BACKCOUNTRY My rating: B-
92 minutes | No MPAA rating
If the movies have taught us anything it’s that bad things happen when city folk go stomping around in the woods.
In writer/director Adam MacDonald’s terse, borderline minimalist “Backcountry,” a couple of thirtysomething urban Canadians, Jenn and Alex (Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop), leave the city for a wilderness park. It’s the end of the season, the leaves are turning, and they have the place pretty much to themselves.
Alex came to this park often as a child, and now he wants to introduce Jenn to its wonders. Moreover, he plans to pop the big question in the warm glow of a campfire.
Naturally it goes very, very wrong.
First there’s the visit to their campsite by a vaguely sinister local guide (Eric Balfour) that generates the expected two-men-one-woman tensions. But this interloper is merely a red herring. The real danger lies just over the hill, has four taloned paws and very sharp teeth.
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