Southbound

I've been meaning to watch this for a couple years and when I do I'm pleasantly surprised/happy with it. I don't understand some of it, but then everything was straightforward and epic! There's some really cool elements and gore which is always great! Sweet movie despite the confusing stuff.

Its very rare that I see a film that prompts me to put a review on IMDb, but sometimes, a film can be so unforgivably poor, so unpredictably mediocre or so unexpectedly great I can't help myself. This film is the best horror I have seen this year so far (2016). There are few if any flaws in it - with some great surprises. The main surprise is the fact that the film stars 'some actors you've never heard of' and yet pretty much all of them play their individual roles brilliantly. They can ALL act and are convincing in their roles. The film is a 'loop' horror. 'Loop' as in a popular format whereby a number of tales are told that all connect together in some way. In actual fact, all of the short stories in this film need to follow each other, but the loop could have started with any one of them. Its just so well done. I went into this film completely blind and despite being a horror the 1980's John Carpenter style soundtrack made me beam. If there were no mobile phones or modern Audi A8s present the film could have been set in 1983 for all we know! Very clever storytelling that despite having a non-unique style had unpredictable outcomes at the end of each short. Very good. I loved it. Slight whiffs of 2005's 'Reeker' (Michael Ironside) and 1975's Race With The Devil in the mix here, but all reworked for a new decade with some old fashioned elements which make this a winner. Add to the mix a bunch of actors you won't recognise who all appear to have actually been to acting school at some point make this a worthwhile addition to your movie collection. If I rate a film here as 9/10, it is because I know I will watch it again. Not for the squeamish - it's pretty bloody :D

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As an Actor myself Anthology films are one of my favorites in the genre but many times you get several stories that dont hold up to the others, in Southbound however that is not the case. This is a film that could have easily come out back in the 70s 80s and even has that grindhouse look and feel and feel especially with the score. I highly recommend this one check it out !

As with any anthology movie, the good thing about them is if you find one of the stories unfulfilling, you only have to put up with it for no more than 20 minutes or so before moving onto the next one. That's not to say there were terrible segments here, but some were clearly better than others. Not only were most of the segments nice on their own, but there was an over-arcing storyline tying them all together in an intricate way. This really amped up the overall creepiness of being trapped in the middle of nowhere where 'evil' reigns supreme. Of the five, "Jailbreak" seemed to be the weak link as a whole and felt anticlimactic. The story wasn't the best, but the real head-scratcher was the way it ended. It was kind of odd, definitely corny, and didn't really seem to tie into the overall story much. I won't spoil anything but I imagine most people will feel the same way. "The Accident" and "The Way In" are without question the best segments. They were tense, graphic in a good way, and the most entertaining. The Accident was the best because it seemed to be the most plausible (even if it did stretch that notion towards the end). The idea of hitting someone with your car late and night and no one being there to help seems all to real. Amp that up with some grisly imagery & the obscure and you get something pretty wild and entertaining. Following these two are "The Way Out" and "Siren" (if you were a fan of this segment, I suggest checking out the foreign film, "Borgman"). "Southbound" might not reach the heights of legendary anthology movie, "Trick r Treat". Or have a truly memorable segment like "Safe Haven" (VHS 2). But it is an enjoyable 90-minute anthology film that comes together quite nicely when all is said and done.