"Backcountry is never some cheesy, over-the-top creature feature about a CG'd, genetically enhanced animal that you'd find any day on the Syfy channel, and it's all the more character-driven, more authentic, and much more effective because of it. It builds slowly, but surely, by observing Alex and Jenn as a couple and saving the unsparing final half-hour to become more of a taut, rattling, visceral experience. When the bear attacks, director Adam MacDonald and cinematographer Christian Bielz simultaneously shows and leaves enough to the imagination, never dulling the intensely savage brutality of a bear attack." - Jeremy Kibler, Diabolique Magazine