- Actors: Samantha Shields, Martin Compston, Peter Capaldi, Alan McHugh, Kevin Quinn
- Directors: Craig Strachan
- Writers: Craig Strachan
- Producers: Angela Murray, Catherine Aitken, Ros Borland
- Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: 16 Dec 2008
- Run Time: 67 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B001GP5TM2
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 160,493 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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" All of the actors deliver believable performances, the pace never flags, and it's refreshing to have a modern-day horror flick that doesn't rely on sudden bursts of VERY LOUD MUSIC to make audiences jump. Bloody good show ".
Wild Country is a refreshing bit of horror filmmaking....A nifty, modest British entry in the backcountry horror genre that knows its limits and doesn't outstay its welcome. Good stuff
Wild Country is a refreshing bit of horror filmmaking....A nifty, modest British entry in the backcountry horror genre that knows its limits and doesn't outstay its welcome. Good stuff
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A truly awful film. I'm not sure whether I disliked the night scenes or the day scenes most. The night time scenes you could barely make out what was happening, mainly relying on the cast reacting to an undiscernable shadow or shouting 'it's over there' whereas the daytime scenes showed the supposed werewolf to be some type of angry looking womble and looked just ridiculous.
It drags its feet for most of its running time focusing on 5 young scallies from inner city Scotland out in the wilderness camping. Only it didn't look like the wilderness either with its well managed hedgerows and tended fields. I wouldn't criticise the young cast who acted credibly given the dialogue and set pieces they were provided with although their characters were inately uninteresting. This film is so dumb though. Fighting off a crappy looking werewolf with pointy sticks or a pen knife. A couple of passable effects of bodies but I'm amazed that this film was persevered with. Surely the director/producer must have been doing their jobs and studying the filming process and how rubbish a lot of it actually looked. Really, really poor and I think even less of it because at the beginning the priest who abandons all the youngsters to fend for themselves in the countryside tells the story of Sawney Bean (a real life Scottish cannibal)an infinitely better tale, whilst driving them to their destination in a crude attempt to inject some creepyness early on but which otherwise had no relation to this film whatsoever.
It drags its feet for most of its running time focusing on 5 young scallies from inner city Scotland out in the wilderness camping. Only it didn't look like the wilderness either with its well managed hedgerows and tended fields. I wouldn't criticise the young cast who acted credibly given the dialogue and set pieces they were provided with although their characters were inately uninteresting. This film is so dumb though. Fighting off a crappy looking werewolf with pointy sticks or a pen knife. A couple of passable effects of bodies but I'm amazed that this film was persevered with. Surely the director/producer must have been doing their jobs and studying the filming process and how rubbish a lot of it actually looked. Really, really poor and I think even less of it because at the beginning the priest who abandons all the youngsters to fend for themselves in the countryside tells the story of Sawney Bean (a real life Scottish cannibal)an infinitely better tale, whilst driving them to their destination in a crude attempt to inject some creepyness early on but which otherwise had no relation to this film whatsoever.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A nice enough little movie, this, even if it ultimately goes nowhere. A bunch of urban kids set off on a camping trip into the wilds of Scotland. Things go wrong; they get lost. There's a monster. Fine.
Obviously working on a very low budget, the filmmakers are to be commended for trying something fresh. There's nothing pretty about these kids- they're gobby, snarly idiots from the inner city, and all the more believably human for that. But the bickering and throwing of strops as the monster closes in on them play like first year drama school improv rather than the focused telling of a story. The monsters are a little bit wonky too, but have an appealing strangeness about them that raises the entire picture up a notch.
Obviously working on a very low budget, the filmmakers are to be commended for trying something fresh. There's nothing pretty about these kids- they're gobby, snarly idiots from the inner city, and all the more believably human for that. But the bickering and throwing of strops as the monster closes in on them play like first year drama school improv rather than the focused telling of a story. The monsters are a little bit wonky too, but have an appealing strangeness about them that raises the entire picture up a notch.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Wild Country is a quirky hybrid of 80s style creature-feature and Scottish social realism. Good gore, strong performances by the young cast (including Martin Compston and newcomer Samantha Shields), a hilarious cameo by Peter Capaldi, a cheezy creature and a sweet ending. Different!
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Poor effects let down an otherwise promising feature
Wild Country is a werewolf film set in the Scottish Highlands. The only feature length movie so far directed by Craig Strachan, it stars a heap of very unknown young Scottish... Read more
Published 4 months ago by BPR
Probably the worst Scottish horror movie ever!!!
Not sure if this is the only Scottish horror movie but although the idea is not original the film did start with some promise - very quickly destroyed once you got accustomed to... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. I. Roberts
Good story, Terrible Creature
Firstly, this film should not be compared to Dog Soldiers in anyway other than it is based in Scotland. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Antsmiff
Paging Al Gore! Man-bear-pig has been spotted in the Scottish...
Wild Country is a surprisingly decent little horror film that, sadly, commits cinematic suicide at the very end. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Daniel Jolley
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!WARNING!MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!
This low budget highland horror has a sixteen year old girl as its main protagonist. Read more
This low budget highland horror has a sixteen year old girl as its main protagonist. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2009 by Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett
wild country !!!
wild country is a very good movie ! the werewolf is awsome and is a very good low budget scottish movie the only bad thing is the acting is a bit bad but still a good movie highly... Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2009 by K. Sloan
Total Rubbish
This is a rubbish film - the only good thing to say about it is that it is short!! One the worst contributions to the werewolf genre I have ever seen. Read more
Published on 4 Nov 2007 by C. J. P
Scottish horror
I saw this wee film in London at the Frightfest. Made me homesick for Scotland. Although my bit of Scotland never had ned-chomping werewolves roaming about the moors. Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2007 by C. Paterson
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