Southbound (2015)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath, Radio Silence
	Actors: Kate Beahan, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Susan Burke
	Country: USA
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 29.01.2016, Cinema du CASINO, GIFFF2016, Official Selection
Synopsis: In Texas, along an unnamed road going south, several groups of people make strange encounters.
Review: I like the concept of anthologies like V/H/S 1 and 2, The ABCs of Death or The Theater Bizarre and I find that it fits well the Horror genre. The five stories in Southbound have the road in common, and the character of a story fleetingly cross the one of the following as transitions. I would classify the stories in the "Weird" sub-genre off Horror, because of the spooky things that happen to the characters, and the very limited amount of explanations given. Most of those stories take place at night in a Fantasy Texas populated by some evil angels, monsters, sects and people tricking you into performing a surgery operation. That is an interesting universe. None of the segments is exceptional but none is bad either, making this anthology the most self-consistent I have ever seen. I appreciated that a few scenes are accompanied by a John Carpenter-style music, undoubtedly voluntarily. Southbound rightfully won the price attributed by the Young Jury at the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival .
Rating: 6 /10