¡QUÉ HORROR! 2016
Candidate #5
SOUTHBOUND
(September 2015)
"Well, this next one is for you. All you lost souls racin’
down that long road to redemption, and all you sinners runnin’ from your past,
but headin’ straight into that pit o’ darkness up ahead.”
The contemporary horror anthology film continues to tread the kicka$$ territories completely alien to the bland Hollywood horror that currently clutters up the multiplexes, this time, in the form of Southbound.
The contemporary horror anthology film continues to tread the kicka$$ territories completely alien to the bland Hollywood horror that currently clutters up the multiplexes, this time, in the form of Southbound.
Bloody
Disgusting’s Brad Miska--who also brought us the V/H/S anthologies--has his paw prints all over this one too, a
collection of interconnected tales brought to us by the likes of David Bruckner
(¡Qué horror! 2008 title, The Signal and the V/H/S
segment, “Amateur Night”) and Radio Silence (“10/31/98” from ¡Qué horror! 2012 title, V/H/S).
Not
really much more I can say without spoiling the surprises, so just get out
there and hunt this down!
“We’re all on the same
endless highway, the one with no name and no exits, lookin’ for a way out of
tonight and inta tomorrow.
“Well, they’re gonna try
to stop you, but you gotta say, “F*ckin’ keep movin’,” because this is your highway, and tonight might just be the
night you finally outrun those wicked demons once and for all…”
Parting
Shot 1: The one and only Larry Fessenden has his presence known here, as “The
D.J.”
Parting
Shot 2: I have mixed feelings about Siren,
the upcoming feature-length adaptation of “Amateur Night.”
While
I’m curious to see how it’ll play as a feature, I am wondering why Gregg Bishop
is directing, and not Bruckner, who helmed the original short.
It
doesn’t help that I wasn’t overly fond of “Dante the Great,” Bishop’s segment
in V/H/S Viral, either…
(Southbound OS courtesy of
impawards.com.)