Southern Comfort (1981)

Directed by

Walter Hill

Genre

action film, war film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 361 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A squad of nine soldiers on weekend maneuvers in the Louisiana bayou antagonizes local Cajun people. The locals turn the tables and hunt the soldiers through the swamp.

tensebleaksuspensefulparanoidsurvivalistharrowingclaustrophobicgrittyrelentless

What happens

Southern Comfort is a 1981 American independent Southern Gothic thriller film directed by Walter Hill and written by Michael Kane, Hill and his longtime collaborator David Giler. It stars Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, T. K. Carter, Franklyn Seales and Peter Coyote. The film, set in 1973, features a Louisiana Army National Guard squad of nine from an infantry unit on weekend maneuvers in rural bayou country as they antagonize some local Cajun people and become hunted. Filming took place during a 55-day period in the Caddo Lake bayou in the states of Louisiana and Texas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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