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”

Cannibal Ferox

A stern warning precedes Cannibal Ferox concerning “barbaric torture and sadistic cruelty.” And does it deliver. Like, we’re talking UPS. Everyone’s favorite Roman whipping boy Giovanni Lombardo Radice (John Morghen) who’s been variously drilled, severed and flayed in different films, suffers by far his worst fate here (let’s just say spoiling it would involve keywords thatContinue reading “Cannibal Ferox”