Southbound is a return to more classic horror anthology films...

| Apr 13, 2021

A cohesive five-part indie horror anthology.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

A ghoulish stretch of road that's worth revisiting again and again.

| Original Score: 3.75/5 | Jul 20, 2019

While the film can't escape some of the inevitable issues that always plague these episodic movies, its consistency makes it the best horror anthology to come out since Trick 'r Treat.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 22, 2019

It has an amazing sense of homage without ever really trying to reference The Twilight Zone, and, at the same time, it's an entity all of its own.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 7, 2019

Still, Southbound does deliver when raising signals of suspicion, atmospheric chills, head-scratching symbolism and a startling presence of isolation in the form of a stretched out highway presumably heading to the halls of hell.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2018

Feels like an incomplete exercise in Twilight Zone pastiche. If you're down for 90 minutes of blood soaked comeuppance, satanic cults and alternate realties, then the film might be of interest. Otherwise, non-genre aficionados beware.

| Nov 3, 2018

Abstract and eerily incomplete, Southbound unfolds in a place where Marienbad heads south to the Twilight Zone and Dead End, and where moral failings collide with macabre consequences.

| Aug 8, 2016

A powerful variation on the multi-story film. SOUTHBOUND is five horrific stories, each of which fades into the next.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 23, 2016

The horror anthology Southbound is a hit-or-miss affair, a bunch of half-formed ideas that never coalesce into a satisfying shocker.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2016

Southbound, is terse, significant work, efficiently felling frights and dread in a manner that may even resound with general audiences as well as genre aficionados.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2016

It's a solid shocker throughout, with horror icon Larry Fessenden as our radio DJ guide to the menacing morality lessons.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2016

There's something beautifully sandy and gritty about the majority of Southland's stories. America's highways are a never ending dustbowl of horror, interspersed with sad motels and grim gas stations and the atmosphere is enjoyably unsettling.

| Mar 7, 2016

Southbound delivers more than its fair share of pulpy, grisly thrills with its quintet of creepy tales set on a suitably desolate stretch of highway.

| Mar 7, 2016

Like practically every horror anthology in existence it doesn't totally hit the mark, but Southbound on the whole is a demented, weird and occasionally hilarious selection of genre shorts.

| Mar 7, 2016

The much hyped anthology horror... ties five stories together as strangers running from their guilt collide on a stretch of desert highway that isn't all it appears to be. The linking is done brilliantly, especially between our two favourite segments.

| Mar 4, 2016

Most anthology films have ups and downs. It's almost inevitable. Southbound is more even and has more connective tissue than most, but it does feature one segment that singlehandedly justifies seeing the whole movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2016

What makes Southbound stand out is how all-round solid it is, its scary segments joined by a setting (driving through the desert) and a theme (guilt).

Full Review | Mar 4, 2016

Southbound strives for unity and mostly succeeds.

| Feb 29, 2016

There's 120 minutes of this lazy, unmotivated stuff.

| Feb 19, 2016