Southbound is a 2015 American horror anthology film directed by Radio Silence, Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, and Patrick Horvath.

At the same motel are Sadie (Fabianne Therese), Ava (Hannah Marks), and Kim (Nathalie Love), traveling musicians in a band called The White Tights.

Leaving the motel, visiting landmarks, stalked by the floating creatures, their van's tire goes flat and they are forced to pull over.

Stranded in the middle of the desert, they are picked up by a friendly, eccentric couple (Susan Burke and Davey Johnson).

Inside, the band is shown to their room; Sadie hears the woman mention their late friend Alex, but neither Ava nor Kim seem to notice.

At dinner with the Kensingtons (Anessa Ramsey and Dana Gould), who live nearby with twin sons, they are served a meal of burnt roast beef; Sadie, a vegetarian, politely declines.

Sadie confronts her friends for their strange behavior and tries to persuade them to leave; they refuse, in a trance, and decide to stay the night at the house.

Hearing the commotion, Ava and Kim give chase as Sadie escapes the trap and moves into a nearby shed; here, she is accosted by an apparition of Alex.

Lucas exits the car and sees Sadie lying on the ground, critically injured, and calls 911; however, he is unable to tell the dispatcher where he is.

The voices of the dispatcher and the EMT tell Lucas to drive Sadie to a nearby town, where he finds a medical facility.

Entering the facility, he finds it completely abandoned; after searching for help, the dispatcher opts to guide Lucas through performing lifesaving surgery; a third voice, that of a doctor, gets on the line.

She hangs up, and walks into a bar named The Trap; across the parking lot, Danny (David Yow) gets out of his car.

Danny takes Al hostage and forces him to drive to his sister's location: the back room of an ice cream parlor.

Jem (Hassie Harrison) exits the bathroom at Freez'n Over and sees Jesse walk back to the secret door.

Jem then rejoins her parents, Cait and Daryl (Kate Beahan and Gerald Downey), to finish their food.

[7] Principal photography took place in various locations throughout the greater Los Angeles area and the Mojave Desert in 2015, including Twentynine Palms and Amboy.

The film features songs by Mickey Western, Link 80, Barbara Paul, The-Front, Lay Low, Patrick Horvath, Ben Lovett with Ryan Levine, Nick Africano, the Soft White Sixties and the Atom Age.

[19] The Blu-ray version of the film was released in the United Kingdom by StudioCanal on August 8, 2016, and featured new cover art by Andy Belanger.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Southbound doesn't entirely avoid the jarring shifts common to anthology films, but thanks to some thrilling twists and turns, this horror road movie is a surprisingly smooth ride.

[23] The New York Times' Neil Genzlinger gave the film a positive review, and wrote: "Its five segments do what they're supposed to do—unsettle you—but as a bonus, they also leave you wanting more.

"[24] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times described it as "one of the smartest and scariest movies in recent memory",[25] and Rolling Stone's David Ehrlich compared the film to "episodes of Twilight Zone that a baked Rod Serling might have written after watching Carnival of Souls, these chapters are eerie to the extreme, and seedy enough to make you feel like you're watching something you were never meant to see.

Featuring fine performances by its ensemble...Southbound should well please genre fans nostalgic for the likes of Tales From the Crypt and Creepshow.

"[27] Nicolas Rapold of Film Comment wrote: "This anthology of five horror tales is the rare group effort without a dud, as it cruises through variations on the genre with style and confidence.

[34][35] These allusions and easter eggs include the clearly visible bullet wound on Mitch; the blood spatter on the motel wall; bullet holes that mysteriously appear after Mitch becomes trapped in the motel, implying a connection between the room and bullet wound's scar on Mitch; the implication that the ancillary characters have all participated in the situations before; the same dispatch voice heard every time a character calls 911; the suggestion that Danny has transcended the physical world to find his sister; the use of Carnival of Souls (the films share similar themes and storylines); the clerk at the truck stop is named "Sutter" which is an allusion to "Sutter Kane" from John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, another film with similar themes; mirrored dialogue, scenes and images throughout; the creatures being visible in each story; elements of the production design that include the word "fear" visible in the magazine Sutter is reading; the flyer for The White Tights in the Jailbreak segment, Jack's "Only God Can Judge Me" tattoo, and the name of the bar that Danny breaks into: "The Trap".