The only good thing about Bosque de Sombras, filmed in Navarra, Spain, was the scenery. The free rental (yay for working at a major video rental store) was worth seeing the beautiful dense forests and mountains and rivers of the Basque region, which is actually an amazing part of Spain, inhabited by one of the few isolated and long-lived, admirable peoples of the world: the Basques.
Starring Gary Oldman and some bad actors I'd never heard of before, the film is mostly about two English couples of various levels of bitchiness and unhappiness with each other who decide a holiday in Spain at an old villa is an answer to whatever problems they have been having -- which aren't really explained.
Upon driving up to the old cottage in the woods, the foursome stops to stretch and get some wine; they come across what I presume were Basques at a mountain pub. These guys were presented basically as Bad Guys, and I wondered if the movie-makers thought all Basques were national separatist rebels or what.
Shortly after arriving at the retreat cabin, the two Englishmen go hunting one morning and come across a feral, deformed girl locked in an isolated cabin in the woods. They rescue her, take her back to their holiday home in the woods, and subsequently hide her because the Bad Guys come after her, and they are in horrible, rape-ish moods.
After much more unexplained plot content, disjointed story-lines, terrible acting, some gunshots, and a heavy rain, the movie eventually ends but is never tied together by any one element. There's no redemption between the couples. There is no explanation of why there was a small girl with huge hands locked up or why the Bad Guys wanted her. Or anything. We don't know what happens later, or why anything happened at all.
Hilari...no.
Bad...yes.