Fun and surprisingly engaging. If every horror movie was this polished and well thought out, the world would be a better, spookier place.

A unique and creative gem! Not so much horror per se but a really solid watch.

Twisted and haunting, Southbound is a demented and inventive horror film that has more to say than most anthologies with an interconnected narrative that's truly disturbing.

A strange, gory and nightmarish horror anthology that tries to be open-ended and not answer too many questions, succeeding to a fault.

Several individuals have encounters with horrors real and supernatural in this interconnected anthology. Very impressed by this film. Loved the features of the Reapers, skeletal beings that haunt the sands. The directors capture the eerie feel the film should have and the theme of guilt common to all the main characters. Highly recommended.

As an anthology film it is overall a mixed bag. The link between different stories is at times compelling and at times very much lackluster which is really a good way to summarize the movie in general. Some stories are just basic horror stories told in a 20 minute period, and done to varying levels of acceptable quality. The first two follow this very much with both being basic stories that do not really add anything to the narrative/genre they are based off of. The second though does do a good job of building a more "overarching plot". The 3rd is probably the most interesting from an overall story perspective. The plot is the most novel and is really well done. It might drag on a bit in the end but really quite good and worth a watch even if you skip the rest of the movie. The 4th is a less engaging story but does a good job in adding to the overarching narrative, and the 5th falls back into a basic horror narrative being told in a 20 minute period. Like I said overall this film really varies in quality. A couple of changes would have made one or two of the stories much better and the plot more engaging. Like I said the 3rd is worth seeking out if your a fan of horror otherwise this film is an easy skip.

Unique and dark. The transitions and relationships between the stories are really well done and engaging.

An enjoyable horror ride.

Its probably the best horror anthology movie there is. Seen it multiple times

Pretty good, pretty entertaining, not scary at all. Not much is explained and a whole lot of nonsense happened but overall i thought it was entertaining. Its different, its definitely a hit or miss but for me i enjoyed the movie.

Anthologies are not my preferred style of movie, but it makes sense why horror tends to gravitate toward them. It's easy to produce interesting horror content without too much setup and hell, why only have 1 story when you can have 4 or 5? Southbound is definitely my favorite horror anthology I've watched and it does very cool stuff connecting its stories together. It feels like each part belonged there from the start as opposed to taking 5 different short movies and trying to figure out how to connect them all. The shorts with the 3 girls in a band whose van breaks down and then the one with the man in the car and the hospital are particularly special.

Low budget horror done right! I wish there were more productions like this. It would be great to see a Southbound 2.

With its consistent allusions to purgatory, guilt, and past sins, Southbound is playing in relatively safe genre territory, alluding heavily to the short-form style and themes of a few cherished Twilight Zone episodes. However, Southbound is cut from rough cloth as an anthology, seemingly cobbled together with way more attention paid to tying together some of the stories than others (which makes sense because they mostly have individual writers and directors), and varying effectiveness from its range of subplots. In fact, some of the better stories are the most isolated, particularly 'The Accident', which derives much of its unsettling nature from how few questions it answers. The acting is dodgy and the scripts are often inconsistent. Really there doesn't seem to be much benefit to tying these stories together as an anthology instead of producing them as a series of short films, and even then some clearly shine brighter than others. (2/5)

One of the better anthology horror films I've seen! It's definitely up there in terms of imagery along with V/H/S, and the stories creatively intertwine with each other creating a seamless experience. The performances leave a bit to be desired but altogether it's an enjoyable product.

It doesn't make complete sense and has some plot holes. But aside from that it's very creative and fun to watch

It's ok, worth a watch. Just nothing special

Pretty tense and bloody horror film by the makers of VHS and Ready or Not. Nothing groundbreaking here, but it's entertaining enough for horror fans.

Great anthology horror.

Made by filmmakers who worked together on V/H/S, Southbound doesn't always work, but at least its stories have a thematic tie to one another and a vision, unlike so many modern horror anthologies. Radio Silence — Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella– who made Ready or Not, V/H/S, and Devil's Due directed the first segment, in which two men are pursued by demons down a highway as well as the demons of their past failures. "The Way Out" starts the film on a high note. "Siren" continues the strangeness, as the three members of The White Tights wreck their van and are accosted by both hospitality and odd behavior in the homes they find in the aftermath. This segment effectively uses comic actors like Susan Burke and Dana Gould while the direction by Roxanne Benjamin (who wrote this with Burke) keeps the story moving. "The Accident," directed by David Bruckner, is one dark tale, in which a man is brought to a facility where he's instructed in how to operate on Sadie, the character from the last story, who he hits with his car. He cannot save her and their instructions lead to her death; he's haunted by their voices on the phone. The creatures from "The Way Out" keep showing up and haunting the characters. One of the voices on the phone is Sandy, who leads us to a bar called The Trap and the story called "Jailbreak," which is directed by Patrick Horvath. Beyond David Yow from the band The Jesus Lizard, this one is filled with demonic violence. However, it stumbles compared to the other segments. "The Way In" is also by Radio Silence and shows us where the two main characters came from in the first story but not in any way that you'd expect. This one flips the narrative, showing us that perhaps everyone in this story is trapped in the same purgatory and on the way to hell, as well as featuring Larry Fessenden as the DJ whose voice intones that these people might just be making the same mistakes for eternity. It's no accident that Carnival of Souls — well, maybe the public domain status has a little to do with it — is playing at the beginning of this movie. I was really opposed to this movie the first time I saw it, but after a few years — and the quick erosion in quality of horror anthologies — I've come around to liking it a lot more than I did the first time I saw it. Perhaps I'm the one trapped on the highway to hell, watching this again and again until I absolutely adore it?

Southbound is an interesting Horror Anthology movie that mainly focuses on the topic of guilt. The movie starts off rather mediocre and is easy to disinterest many viewers. Despite this in the 3rd story it is able to pull itself together and tell a compelling narrative. This trend continues relatively well until the conclusion. However, without a standardized plot or straightforward story telling one can only look at these stories as a macabre metaphor and largely dissociate from objective narratives due to the films incoherent plot lines. If anything these are general experimental stories that play with different ideas rolled up into one. Which is still entertaining in its own right