I still miss Lester.Word of advice: When and if you find yourself wandering around blindly in the middle of nowhere, do try your best to keep your nosy suburban fingers out of the locals' business. Big city do-gooders Paddy Considine and Gary Oldman have to learn this painful lesson the hard way in Koldo Serra's tense 2006 psychological shocker Bosque de sombras (aka The Backwoods). Fortunately for us, their inability to stay out of the other people's private affairs results in a thoroughly gripping tale of marital discourse, the ultimate price of sin, and really big shotguns. Those in search of something dipped in a tub of reddish brown horror, I'm afraid, will not take kindly to the film's deliberate pacing, its ambiguous nature, or it's soggy, unsatisfying resolution. Sadly, despite a collection of strong performances and a gilded box of fierce, unrelenting suspense, most will find this to be yet another insufferably boring Spanish production sporting a few famous faces. Fans of Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, on the other hand, may appreciate Serra's serious approach to an otherwise lifeless exploitation script. Then again, maybe not.
Recipe For Success: Spot-On Direction + Palpable Atmospheric Pressure + Gary Oldman's Groovy Mustache
Redneck Hiking Hints: Hillbillies, on average, lock up their malformed offspring just for the hell of it.
Do not be alarmed.
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