Southern Comfort (1981)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It is one of my personal favorite best war movies of all time and favorite from been a hunted to become a hunter. I love, love this movie to death. I love the setting that it was filmed in the forest and in the swamps. The soldiers got lost and are now hunted from Cajuns. Because they stole their canoes and a soldier for a joke fired at them with blank bullets, but Cajuns returned fire and kill on of the soldiers. The other eight soldiers are now hunted on enemy turf, without live animation, compass, and the map they lost they must fight for survival. Walter Hill directed perfectly this film. "The thrill of the hunt is the ultimate drug" - the line is from Hard Target it is still a thrill film an edge on your seat. This is my childhood movie, I grew up watching it today I still love this movie today and I have purchased the Blu-ray disc and I watch it so many times on VHS tape. I think the acting performance from all the actors was decent. I love the music score by Ry Cooder I think it is very beautiful. What can I say? I love this movie to death I always enjoy watching this movie. I watched in Thursday this movie with my dad and even he enjoyed this movie just like I did. He said he loves this movie just like me. Squad of nine Louisiana National Guard soldiers are Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T. K. Carter, Lewis Smith , Les Lannom, Peter Coyote and Alan Autry and they are believable. Powers Boothe and Franklyn Seales both really died in real life and are sadly no longer with us anymore. I am written this cause I love this movie to death and no one talks about it. Like this movie doesn't exit. I am a huge fan of this film. I have been an enthusiastic fan of Walter Hill's 1981 film, Southern Comfort, since childhood, and I believe that it is one of the most perfect movies of that decade in terms of its ability to maintain intensity to a nail-biting conclusion. A lot has been written about this film as an allegory for the war in Vietnam, but I prefer simply to take Southern Comfort at face value as a brilliant horror story. When a squad of nine National Guardsmen antagonize some reclusive Cajuns in the bayous of Louisiana, they find themselves fighting for their lives in drab swamp setting that is presented as a villain in its own right. They are on enemy territory crossing through swamps without any real ammunition, their compass and the map they lost in the swamp alone and tired the hunt is on in this game for survival. Unlike contemporary survival horror movies where one never gets the impression that the characters are actually outdoors at any point in the film, Southern Comfort is rugged to an extreme, with the actors constantly wading ankle-deep through swamp lands in the middle of winter, since filmmakers quickly determined that the filming location would be too hazardous during the summer season. For most of the film, the Cajun hunters are depicted as terrifyingly wraith like figures that are only seen in split-second glimpses through the trees. This movie has some of the most harrowing death scenes that I have ever witnessed on screen, by way of gunshots to the head, horrific booby traps, and, most notably, an unset ting sequence where a character disappears in quicksand that is subsequently shown in a serene shot as though nothing happened. A beautifully atmospheric Ry Cooder soundtrack works wonders to bring the viewer into the bayou. Just when the viewer thinks that the most tense moments of Southern Comfort have come to pass, the film ratchets up the unnerving horror with a conclusion that feeds on paranoia in a crowded setting. A few key visuals, namely two rope nooses being thrown over a support beam and a pig slaughter, are strikingly effective in a way that recalls the best of Universal Horror films or German expressionism, while the faces of strangers gets under the skin in a way that recalls movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Through it all, Southern Comfort presents us with memorable characters by way of convincing "lived-in" dialogue and tough guy archetypes that may or may not snap in the face of danger. It's easy to buy the notion that the nine Guardsmen are real people who have known one another for a long time, but simply tolerate one another's company during monthly weekend training exercises. The authenticity of these interactions is the strength that sold the premise to me when I first saw this movie on a cable channel almost 30 years ago. R.I.P. Franklyn Seales (1952-1990) and Powers Boothe (1948-2017) you are both really missed. Southern Comfort is a 1981 American action/thriller film directed by Walter Hill and written by Michael Kane, and Hill and his longtime collaborator David Giler. It stars Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, T. K. Carter, Franklyn Seales, and Peter Coyote. 10/10 Bad Ass Seal Of Approval my favorite childhood movie from Walter Hill of all time a really masterpiece classic they don't make movie like this anymore.

Of course, you might compare this film in many ways to Deliverance. Although this is a less better film, I'd opt to watch this instead. I love the performances in this film, especially Keith Carradine, who really struts his stuff, and I did like Powers Boothe, and we can't rule out Brion James, man of many faces, as a revenge driven shooter and yokel. Peter Coyote leads a training exercise, with his squad of U.S. marines (not the most likable sort), in the the murky swamps in the bayou, not the best place as you'll find out. When making the mistakes of stealing these yokel's canoes, begins a game of vengeance, where one by one the squad are picked off, where inevitably we have the two survivor factor. Some of the characters are so arrogant (esp. Fred Ward) where quite frankly, I was glad to see the back of some of them. The movie actually becomes better the more it progresses, resulting in some real tasty entertainment. The thrills are in wondering how the next soldier is gonna get it, or how the squad intend to outsmart them, with the next plan of strategy. Southern Comfort is quite violent too, amid exploding brains and matter, or watch a pig get gutted. I loved the music scores in this. It's last fifteen minutes is almost, as when the surviving two are in the company of a festival of town folk, it's quite eerie, as to tell which are good or bad. You don't know in this sea of yokels. Powers Boothe was quite a reason to watch this, as I do like that actor, but the others hold their own too. A very made film in the tradition of Deliverance. Enjoy.

Extremely well directed, atmospheric thriller from dependable veteran Walter Hill. It gets a lot of mileage from its forbidding environment: the Louisiana swamps, which are very hard to navigate for those that aren't locals. And it's into these swamps that a bunch of city slickers, a macho team of National Guardsmen, must flee when they make the mistake of antagonizing some Cajun hunters in the area.The Guardsmen soon realize that they're lost, and appropriate some canoes belonging to the hunters. What makes matters worse is when team member Stuckey (Lewis Smith) fires his blanks at the approaching Cajuns, who relentlessly pursue the Guardsmen and set up all matter of traps for them. Unfortunately, our protagonists don't just have the Cajuns to worry about when they start fighting among themselves.As can be expected, Hill does an expert job of assembling an incredible male ensemble, full of rock solid actors. Powers Boothe plays Hardin, the odd man out in the main group because he's from Texas and doesn't particularly care for "redneck" characters. He's also one of the few characters on hand who has more than half a brain in his head, as far too many of the group are clearly unbalanced, and the second in command, Casper (Les Lannom), just isn't that effective in the leadership position. Also starring are a charismatic Keith Carradine, an intense Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales of "The Onion Field", T.K. Carter of John Carpenter's "The Thing", Alan Autry ('In the Heat of the Night'), and Brion James ("Blade Runner") in a great role as a grizzled, one armed Cajun trapper.Ry Cooders' flavourful music is wonderful, and the tension is undeniable, especially in the final scenes where one thinks that Carradine and Boothe may have found sanctuary in a nearby community but Boothe worries that their adversaries haven't given up and may show up any second. The production design by John Vallone and cinematography by Andrew Laszlo are also well worth mentioning.Look for Sonny Landham ("48 Hrs.", "Predator") in a bit part near the end as one of the hunters.Eight out of 10.

Semi-spoiler included. If you have not seen this movie,I envy you. I wish I could see it again for the first time. Acting is superb. Scripting is superb. A bunch of National Guardsmen try to schoolyard bully some Louisiana deer hunters and then laugh it off. They grab a tiger's tail they cannot release. Suddenly, instead of being on a pain in the butt training exercise, they are running for their lives thru a swamp.Brion James has a great line after he hangs Alan Autry from a railroad trestle. "Dis our home down here. Don't nobody fock wid us." It sums up America's attitude towards Vietnam before the reality sat in for good. Get it. Watch it. Enjoy.