Really Awful Movies

Southern Comfort

In the Louisiana swamps the national guard is involved in “recon and security,” which involves traipsing through gator country armed with blanks and fortified with resentment. Southern Comfort (1981, directed by Walter Hill of The Warriors fame) follows Bravo Team, or as we’d called them, B-team, featuring a who’s who of second-tier 1970s talent. DeliveranceContinue reading “Southern Comfort”

Expressway to Your Skull

Expressway to Your Skull, the debut feature from writer/director Michael Okum, begins with a young girl walking along a deserted stretch of road. An older, grizzled man stops to pick her up, some crumpled bills in his filthy hand. They share a flask at the side of the road and the man asks her toContinue reading “Expressway to Your Skull”