{"id":9550,"date":"2025-02-06T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=9550"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:30:53","slug":"southbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=9550","title":{"rendered":"Southbound"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The most recent [new] podcast movie was Southbound<\/a>, a mix of anthology and psycho killer… which tracks, yeah. There’s this DJ being creepy on the radio while five stories play out along the same highway, in sequential, minimally overlapping order. I liked this conceit exactly once, as that was the time the interaction was direct, instead of incredibly indirect, nay, practically forced.<\/p>\n

So anyway, the stories are as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Two blood- and regret-covered men are forced to face their demons, literal and metaphorical alike.<\/li>\n
  2. A lady rock band on tour breaks down, and gets the wrong kind of help.<\/li>\n
  3. A dude hits and tries to save a pedestrian, more or less in Silent Hill<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. A dude tries to rescue his sister from monstertown.<\/li>\n
  5. A family is attacked by strangers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Aside from the tenuous linear timeline that connects these stories, an even more disappointing facet of the movie is that the latter two stories don’t really involve anyone driving down a highway. If you cannot maintain the theme of your anthology for more than three-fifths of the movie, that is a pretty bad compromise someone made along the way.<\/p>\n

    …okay, I’m going to stop now, because I have some regrets about what just happened. Anyway, the first and last stories did not make a lick of sense, I think mostly by virtue of not being written as though someone would ever need them to, but the other three ranged from decent to pretty darn good. It’s just the wrapper that is annoying me here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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