Southbound
Synopsis
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.
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Cast
- Fabianne ThereseSadie
- Larry FessendenThe D.J.
- Kate BeahanCait
- Zoe CooperDispatch
- Gerald DowneyDaryl
- Karla DroegeEMT
- Dana GouldRaymond Kensington
- Hassie HarrisonJem
- Roxanne BenjaminClaire
- Nathalie LoveKim
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Just when we think we’ve got it all figured out, Southbound serves up another deliciously bloody twist. - 75
The A.V. Club
Tacking the weakest segments onto the end of the film may leave some viewers exiting the theater with a shrug, but the interesting bits are original enough to stick. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Southbound should well please genre fans nostalgic for the likes of Tales From the Crypt and Creepshow. - 70
The New York Times
These are fragments more than complete stories, and the incompleteness is its own kind of creepiness. - 63
Slant Magazine
Southbound is yet another contemporary horror film that belongs to seemingly every era but its own. - 63
RogerEbert.com
A prime example of a horror omnibus film: even the weaker segments have something to recommend them. - 60
Variety
This entertaining-enough quartet of loosely interwoven terror tales falls right into the middle ground of horror omnibuses, with no outright duds but no truly memorable (or scary) segments either. - 50
Village Voice
Just as most of them can't outrun their pasts, neither can they escape familiar plot contrivances that try too hard and achieve too little.
