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Southbound
Five interlocking tales of terror follow the fates of a group of weary travellers who confront their worst nightmares – and darkest secrets – over one long night on a desolate stretch of desert highway. Southbound is a 2015 American anthology horror/sci-fi/thriller film directed by Radio Silence, Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner and Patrick Horvath. The
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Race with the Devil [Jack Starett 1975]
File under: car chase occult horror, buddy movie human sacrifice, hilbilly satanist meet city tourist. Firstly, this horror flick was an influence on Red State (sez Kevin Smith) and a bunch of other action movies involving interrupted rituals and nasty consequences. Race with the Devil has it all – it has Texas slang & twang,
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The Mangler [Tobe Hooper 1995]
“Have you ever considered the possibility that the machine may be haunted?…Maybe ‘haunted’ is not a good word, let’s say possessed.”Mark I consider The Mangler an incredible classic of occult human-machinic fatal affair, of industrial sacrificial rites and demonic laundry labour. I would like to follow in a few movies the abrasive, deleterious and mutilating