Wild Country
Wild Country
| 01 April 2006 (USA)
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Kelly and Lee find an abandoned baby in an old castle and have to fight a wolflike beast that has been killing their hiking friends, one by one.

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Claudio Carvalho

In Glasgow, the teenager single mother Kelly Ann (Samantha Shields) is forced by Father Steven "Steve" Gillis (Peter Capaldi) to deliver her baby boy for adoption. Six weeks later, Father Steve organizes a hike in the countryside with the youths David (Kevin Quinn), Louise (Nicola Muldoon), Mark (Jamie Quinn) and Kelly Ann and leaves them alone in the Scottish Highlands. He shows the meeting point in the map and tells that he would wait for them in an inn on the next day. Out of the blue, Kelly Ann's ex-boyfriend Lee (Martin Compston) joins the group invited by David. While hiking, the group stumbles with a weird shepherd (Alan McHugh) and later Lee puts the man on the run. During the night, Kelly Ann overhears the cry of a baby and she goes with Lee to a derelict old castle where they find an abandoned baby in the middle of dead bodies. Soon the group is hunted down by a deadly wolf-like creature and has to decide whether they hide or fight to survive."Wild Country" is a reasonable slow-paced horror movie with an awful and senseless plot point in the very end. The acting is decent and the Brazilian DVD has subtitles; otherwise it would be very difficult to understand many dialogs. The beast is not a werewolf and is not developed; therefore the viewer never knows what the beast is. Further, how a creature kills so many people without any investigation from the local authorities. The special effects and the cinematography are very poor. As usual in slash movies, there are stupid attitudes: Lee leaves the safety of the tree to be murdered by the creature and the farmer on the motorized tricycle does not listen to Kelly Ann and decides to check what is happening. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Campo Selvagem" ("Wild Country")

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miketaylor2007

Let me tell you something about this movie right now... it could have been a decent one if it wasn't for the actors. Not to say the acting was bad they were OK but its just the fact that they are all Scotish and when you are watching it the entire time its very hard to understand them with the strange accents. The storyline is kind of typical horror lover story some teenagers go out into the woods camping and find themselves being chased by a monster (im not giving away anything that isn't already on the back of the DVD). If you like these kind of horror movies I suppose you could check it out but im just warning you turn the subtitles on.... because even though they speak English, you could almost say they are speaking a foreign language! It is ridiculous!

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red_robin19

OK. I'm going to be a little bias here as Samantha Shields is actually a good friend of mine and i act with her quite often, but nonetheless i actually did enjoy the film! OK, so i've seen scarier horror's in my time and ...maybe i laughed a little at the special effects on this one, but with such a low budget they done OK.As for the acting, well...iv'e only ever acted with Sami on stage before and so it's all been a little over the top as stage performances usually are, so to see Sami being so natural was amazing! the girl definitely has a natural talent for natural acting! She definitely has a bright future ahead of her! take me with you Sami!!

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Chris

I am slightly biased in non-favor of this movie having actually seen it. Though it shows potential to have something vaguely resembling a plot, in the end, the viewer is left wondering whether or not the movie has actually started. Time was not an issue for lacking plot. Running at only 72 minutes, there was more than enough time to actually explain SOMETHING. Please explain something. That is why you make movies. The main character, Kelly Ann, could have been played by anyone with a Scotish accent and legs capable of running through random fields in Scotland for extended periods of time. Lee could be played by any semi- to moderately-attractive young male with a Scotish accent as well. Only running in his case was not a requirement. Much of this movie took place during the day time, which made the "wolf" one of the greatest comedic characters I have ever witnessed. And when I say "wolf" what I am trying to say is a half-boar, half mad cow fetus half-breed of UK craziness. (See 'Isolation' for reference and if you want to see a decent horror film from the UK.)

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