"Southbound"
I was not entirely sure how I felt about this one, but upon a couple of day's reflection (and a nice long drive through one of those large stretches of nothing some of us live near,) I decided I liked it. This is a very "American" horror film - it only works somewhere that has those long stretches where you can drive for hours and see nary a sign of civilization. Or that gas station that looks almost identical to the one you passed three hours ago.
This one had a nice wraparound with the structure that reinforced the "never ending torment" themes throughout, and a low key intertwining between stories instead of trying to be super clever with it. (I love it when the intertwining is super clever, but with the more serious tone of these stories, I think it would have been distracting in this one.) "Accident" was the most gripping one for me. Truly nightmarish in every sense of the word. This is the second anthology flick I've watched this month with the radio DJ as the connection between the stories. It can either be seen as a classic or cliched option, and in this one it fell a little more into the "cliched" category. (And the DJ had a nice enough voice, but I might have liked it more with a more interesting or compelling voice.)
This one had a nice wraparound with the structure that reinforced the "never ending torment" themes throughout, and a low key intertwining between stories instead of trying to be super clever with it. (I love it when the intertwining is super clever, but with the more serious tone of these stories, I think it would have been distracting in this one.) "Accident" was the most gripping one for me. Truly nightmarish in every sense of the word. This is the second anthology flick I've watched this month with the radio DJ as the connection between the stories. It can either be seen as a classic or cliched option, and in this one it fell a little more into the "cliched" category. (And the DJ had a nice enough voice, but I might have liked it more with a more interesting or compelling voice.)
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