Southern Comfort (1981)
Curious cross between Deliverance (which came out nine years earlier) and Predator (which came out a lot later) has National Guardsmen on a boring weekend exercise in a Louisiana bayou, only to find themselves under attack from local redneck Cajuns, all due to the troop's own stupidity. The dysfunctional group dynamic is far more compelling than the traps the group will face en route to death or freedom (and there's a lot of the former), with a solid cast of notable faces that eventually add as many corpses to the body count as their attackers. Very intriguing film.
Rating
4.0 out of 5 Stars
- Director: Walter Hill
- Producer: David Giler
- Screenwriter: Michael Kane, Walter Hill, David Giler
- Stars: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter
- MPAA Rating: R
- Year of Release: 1981
- Released on Video: 03/01/1982
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