Backcountry

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Backcountry

R

2014

1h 32m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

Adventure

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2,500+ Ratings

A couple (Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop) on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.

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Tense, well-acted, and at once atmospheric as well as brutally impactful, Backcountry marks a memorably assured debut from writer-director Adam MacDonald.

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Geoff Pevere

Globe and Mail

Backcountry thrives in the close-quarter details: the verbal knife-pricks of a dying relationship, the jangling impact of the smallest sounds breaking silence, that dread certainty that you're completely lost and it's getting dark.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 28, 2015

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Linda Barnard

Toronto Star

MacDonald does quite well in his dramatic feature debut with solid performances from the cast. Backcountry is satisfyingly intense, although quite gory in patches.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 27, 2015

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

"Backcountry" inevitably brings on the bloody, but it finds atmospheric ways to depict how the bucolic hush of a nature getaway can morph into a survival nightmare for the unprepared.

Mar 26, 2015

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David Day

Horror Movie Talk

Backcountry is a one-trick pony that relies on a surprisingly well-grounded theme – The woods are scary, and so are wild animals.

Rated: 6/10

Aug 12, 2025

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

The relational tension unnerves you early on and, while not entirely surprising, manages to showcase a threat of mother nature without demonizing the main threat.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 20, 2023

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Paul Lê

Bloody Disgusting

Adam MacDonald’s colossal debut features a unique ursine nightmare impelled by human error.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 21, 2023

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Shaun R

Decent film. Realistic and straight to the simple point.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/29/25

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doug B

Incredible film . Watch it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/20/25

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Matt R.

Average at best acting. Scenery isn’t great. First hour is entirely boring. How this has 92% I’ll never know.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

06/29/25

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Callahan M

This movie is not for those with eyes or ears. I would rather lay my ballsack on a lit hibachi grill than endure the 90 minute genocide of watching this “film”. If you enjoy watching a woman stumbling across the woods for 35 minutes then this movie will satisfy all your needs. I was rooting for the bear to kill the screenwriter and then itself. Each of the 3 MINUTES that the bear was on screen made you realize why this film had a budget of $7. I would recommend this movie if you need your 13th reason or if you hate yourself. Never watching this piece of absolute garbage again. I think the true fear in the actresses eyes was at the thought of this movie being released to the public. Her acting was depressing. Depressing because I know she will never get another acting job after this iMovie looking disaster was sadly seen by the world. The ad breaks in the middle of this movie felt like a drink of water in the desert. I’ve never been happier to see an Ozempic advertisement in the smack middle of a movie. The director should add the suicide hotline at the end of the movie for those of us who even made it that far. I wish I could give it -7 stars because half a star feels like way too much. Don’t watch.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/15/25

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Jeremy S

Never been scared of bears until now. I found it gripping. My wife fell asleep.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/26/25

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Abdul H

Predictable, boring, collection of scenes not an engaging movie at all.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/04/25

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Synopsis

A couple (Missy Peregrym, Jeff Roop) on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.

Director: Adam MacDonald
Producer: Thomas Michael
Screenwriter: Adam MacDonald
Production Co: Téléfilm Canada, Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC), Fella Films
Rating: R (Language|Gruesome Creature Violence)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 30, 2016
Runtime: 1h 32m

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