Soooooooooo I finally got around to watching this because I am eternally spending my time catching up to everyone else and like, I don’t see how anyone could give this slick horror anthology a bad review? And yet there are a few people whose opinions I respect that I do that did? And I’m not saying they are wrong but I am saying “how are they right”?!

So one big reason I dug this was that the stories aren’t all individual and relying on some lame wraparound to put them together. Instead, we have a group of stories that flow seamlessly from one segment to the next! So seamlessly that I’m not sure I could tell you where one began…

Southbound is a rather interesting horror anthology with interweaving stories, at the end of a segment one of the characters passes the segment torch to a new character and the audience is smoothly carried along into a new segment, with the wraparound acting only as bookends to the entire anthology, instead of having a segment in between each act.

Interestingly, Roxanne Benjamin, a producer on V/H/S, stepped into the role of director in Southbound with a segment following an all-girl band who are stranded on a long stretch of highway, I hate that it's even noteworthy that a woman participated in a horror anthology but it's still a rare occurrence and her segment was second best, so right on!

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Glasgow Frightfest 2016 Film # 8

A strange anthology horror featuring four separate tales by four directors all involving seemingly unrelated stories of desperate soul's travelling down a deserted stretch of highway.
The film open's, then comes full circle and close's with what to me was the weakest segment, The Way In and The Way Out directed by the group of filmmakers know as Radio Silence was a fairly baffling story that isn't really made any clearer by the end segment. The one thing it get's right is the cool looking, skeletal monster's/alien's which appear to be stalking the main characters.
The middle two segment's are the film's strongest, first we have Siren by Roxanne Benjamin, featuring the best cast…

Two low-rent criminals, covered in blood and frantic with regret, speed down a purgatorial stretch of desert highway. The gravel-voiced DJ on the radio dedicates the next song directly to them: "This one is for all you lost souls racing down to redemption, and all you sinners running from your past by heading straight into that pit of darkness up ahead." Here's hoping the fugitives enjoy the tune, because their demons (represented here by floating skeleton monsters) are about to catch up with them.

Welcome to Southbound, a gnarly anthology from some of the same twisted minds who brought you the V/H/S trilogy. But where the segments in those films were linked by a flimsy framing device and a shared…

"Being sure is sort of a fancy way of being lazy." -Overalls guy,

This is one of the more interesting horror anthologies I have seen in years. Five stories revolve around events that take place on a desolate stretch of highway somewhere in America. Each story leads into the next before it all comes together at the end. I wish the acting was a little stronger and the script a little better in a few of the stories but this is a solid watch that I enjoy very much. A few brief notes:

Story One: Two men on the run from their past- Feels very christian-y but nope I'm wrong about that.

Story Two: A Band on it's way to…

The best way I can describe ‘Southbound’ is that it’s an anthology collection with stories at various stages of completion. Sometimes you get some set up with your conflict, sometimes it’s just conflict, and there is even a conflict and ‘resolution’ without context.

In some ways it feels lazy...like a group of writers couldn’t make all the components of their short stories engaging, so they just took the pieces that worked and stitched them together into a patchwork nightmare.

But maybe that is the point. Nightmares don’t have a beginning or end...they flow from one idea to the next and often ideas will cycle through multiple times so it never feels like you can escape it’s clutches.

So as a…

Daily Horror Scavenger Hunt 2 - August 2018

17/31: I really dig anthology horror movies. Let's watch an anthology horror flick.

“This next one is for you. For all you lost souls racing down that long road to redemption and all you sinners running from your past but heading straight into that pit of darkness up ahead. We're all on the same endless highway... the one with no name, no exits... looking for a way out of tonight and into tomorrow. Well, they're going to try to stop you but you gotta say "fuck it" and keep moving. Because this is your highway. And today might just be the day you finally outrun those wicked demons once and for all.…

Southbound 
Very amateur horror anthology with a few good ideas and much passion 

Half of the V/H/S directors, a film that I definitely need to rewatch and one that lives under the shadow of its amazing sequel, return for a new horror anthology set in a town and a highway in the middle of the desert. So how was it? Ehhhh I expected more to be honest. As horror anthologies go, V/H/S 2 remains the King of them all, and I don’t think it will ever be dethroned. 

It was still kinda fun though. I enjoyed how every different short was connected to each other, every transition was smooth as hell and it even took me time to realize we…