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After
reluctantly giving away her baby for adoption,
Kelly Ann decides to go on a hike with a couple of
friends in the Scottish highlands. Their trip is soon
interrupted by a wolf-like creature though that starts
to feed on the friends. One by one they fall victim
for the horrifying creature, and it seems as if they're
all out of luck with killing it. Will anyone survive
this Scottish nightmare?
It's only about an hour long, for most of the time it's
almost impossible to see what's going on and the
actors have such strong Scottish accents that it's
difficult to make out what they're saying, so what is
it really that makes Wild Country so special? Nothing
really, this movie has been extremely over hyped if
you ask me, for while it is a decent monster movie,
that's really all it is. It's not original, the black
humour doesn't work at all, the script is sloppily
written, and the movie looks way too cheap for a
theatrical release (yes, it did indeed get a limited
theatrical release home in Scotland).
This movie that is so cheap-looking that it wouldn't
even manage to become a Sci-Fi original revolves around
a bunch of teens who are out on a hike on the Scottish
highlands when they encounter a wolf-like beast of
some sort. You know how it goes from there; beast kills
teens, teens scream, teens hide, teens try to kill
beast, beast has mother, mother kills teens. Yeah, it's
your typical monster flick. It's not bad though. Since
it's only about an hour long (65 minutes without the
end credits), the movie kicks off quickly and keeps a
solid pace through and through. There are buckets of
blood and the creatures look pretty damn cool.
The acting is also one of the better things in the
movie even though their characters aren't very deep.
In fact, the only one to even get any real characteristics
is Kelly Ann who we all know will last the longest and
ultimately have to fight the beast. What can I say?
It's very standard creature feature material. Then we
have a whole list of bad stuff as well like the fact
that 80% of the movie is so dark that it's almost
impossible to tell what's going on. You can make out
most of it by concentrating really hard but it doesn't
feel good for the eyes. The script also has some
severe problems and the fact that the story is paper
thin doesn't help either.
Still, Wild Country is an enjoyable ride for most of
the time due to its high gore content and its fast
pacing. I'm thinking that the fact that it's only
an hour long probably worked in advantage for it as
it wouldn't have been as fast-paced had it been longer,
and that would definitely have worked against it.
Overall, if you're in the mood for a decent but
relatively generic monster movie, you could do a whole
lot worse than Wild Country. It's got all the right
ingredients, it just doesn't do anything new with them.
A decapitated head, a couple of slashed throats, some
guts, a guy gets split in half and a whole lot more.
It really has enough gore for most horror fans.
The soundtrack mainly consisted of noises and sounds.
It worked well enough but it could have used a few
strings here and there to lift it up a bit.
Decent monster flick which doesn't try to do anything
new with the subgenre. It's nice to see Scotland
producing horror movies but this is one that I could've
done without. It just wasn't anything special to me.
Entertaining enough to check out but nothing that will
stay with you for very long.
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