You’ve watched the trailer for Southbound, my latest venture into producing, now enjoy the opening 7-minutes from the anthology that’s being compared to “The Twilight Zone” and “The Outer Limits.”
Set for a limited theatrical run on February 5th before heading to VOD just a few days later on February 9th, the clip is from a story told by Radio Silence, who directed “10/31/98” in our first V/H/S, as well as Devil’s Due for Fox. In the footage, two men are on the run, while being stalked by reapers. Every turn leads them back south…
The movie, set for release through The Orchard, includes stories directed by Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner (The Signal), Patrick Horvath (Entrance) and Radio Silence, several of whom were involved in our V/H/S films.
In Southbound, “On a desolate stretch of road, weary travelers — two men on the run from their past, a band on their way to the next 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 of terror and remorse on the open road.”
Roxanne Benjamin, who produced the film with me, and directed one of the segments, recently talked a bit about doing something different with the anthology subgenre:
“After producing a couple of anthologies, and seeing a bunch more come out in the past few years, ‘Southbound’ was an attempt to make the anthology format feel interesting and new again,” Benjamin explained to EW. “We wanted to make a film that felt more cohesive, and unified, that ideally you wouldn’t know had multiple directors by watching it. We wanted it to feel like one world, from different viewpoints, that shifted seamlessly between the different storylines like a traditional narrative. It also came together through wanting to work with these guys again, and all of us being drawn to this idea of the desolation of the open road, and long road trips leading to intense self-examination and reflectiveness. Basically it’s an emotional existential crisis horror movie…. All of our stories deal with guilt in some way, and karmic retribution.”
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Clip courtesy of Indiewire:
