Southbound
Southbound crafts a uniquely unsettling atmosphere through five interconnected narratives unfolding along a desolate desert highway, where the boundaries of reality fray and characters repeatedly cycle through nightmarish encounters. It's not a traditional horror film reliant on jump scares, but a persistently disorienting experience steeped in dread and a sense of inescapable fate – each segment unraveling into further layers of psychological horror as individuals confront manifestations of their guilt and past traumas. The film's structural innovation lies in its looping, non-linear presentation, blurring the lines between observer and participant, and creating a subtly terrifying exploration of how our darkest impulses echo and amplify across the lives of others. It evokes a haunting sense of cyclical torment and the impossibility of truly escaping one's own demons, moving beyond simple scares to linger as a disturbing psychological echo.
Rolprentbesonderhede
- Regisseurs
- Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Patrick Horvath, Roxanne Benjamin, Justin Martinez, Chad Villella
- Vrystellingsdatum
- 2015-09-17
- Looptyd
- 89 min
- Gradering
- 5.9 / 10 (687)
