Southern Comfort

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Date/Time: 
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 10:00pm
Host: 
Terror Tuesday

Rated R; 106min; Director:Walter Hill (1981)
Alamo Website:  A dozen weekend warriors on Army Reserves maneuvers in the Louisiana bayou fall into the bad graces of the local yokels. What follows is an intestine-blasting battle for survival as the armchair army men fire fully automatic training blanks at the most highly skilled, heavily armed, kill-crazy swampdwellers this side of the Pecos. Walter Hill made SOUTHERN COMFORT two years after his undisputed classic THE WARRIORS, and I submit that this right here is the superior film: DELIVERANCE + RAMBO injecting pure caffeine into its eyeballs. The last 10 minutes will have you dancing in your seat like a fetus on a hot skillet. Featuring an incredible cast including Powers Boothe (RED DAWN), Fred Ward, Keith Carradine and several other familiar Hollywood luminaries who don’t mind getting disemboweled, spiked, shot in the face, mangled by bear traps, blown to pieces and otherwise treated like meat slabs with targets on them. (Zack)