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June 20, 2025,
It was a classic line in an iconic movie.
He found himself in a pickle and cried, “I’m not supposed to be here”.
Generally, when someone says that, something has gone very wrong. Entering the situation, the person had one set of expectations, and to put it mildly, things did not go according to plan.
Southern Comfort is a 1981 American action 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.
Hunted is an understatement.
Here is the storyline.
The nine soldiers set out on patrol and soon get disoriented in the remote swampland. They come across a seemingly-abandoned campsite with several canoe-type boats called pirogues. To continue onward, the Guardsmen need the pirogues to get across the flooded swamp.
The squad’s leader, Staff Sergeant Poole, a Vietnam War veteran, tells one of his men to leave a note explaining the situation, and orders the soldiers into three of the four pirogues.
As they set out across the bayou, a group of Cajun hunter-trappers return and yell at the soldiers for having taken their boats. In response, PFC Stuckey fires blanks from his M-60 machine gun at the Cajuns, thinking it amusing when the Cajuns take cover. The Cajuns return fire with live ammunition, killing Poole and sending the squad into a panic as they make their way toward cover.
Ouch.
The ensuing wicked chase that occurs is spine tingling. A friend of ours remembers watching Southern Comfort, right around 1982. He was having beer and dinner and he was so stressed out, he could barely keep his food down.
True accounting.
Talk about not wanting to be somewhere. If there is any place that you would not want to be, it’s the Louisiana swamp, filled with angry Cajuns.
In the next one, just the tile by itself says volumes.
Alone is a 2020 American psychological thriller film directed by John Hyams, from a screenplay by Mattias Olsson. The film stars Jules Willcox as a young woman who desperately tries to escape a deranged and bloodthirsty psychopath (Marc Menchaca) in the wilderness. It was released in the United States on September 18, 2020, by Magnet Releasing.
Here is the storyline.
While driving along a mountainous highway in Oregon to relocate, recently widowed Jessica encounters a hostile driver in a Jeep. As she tries to overtake him, he speeds up, nearly causing a collision with a semi-trailer truck. He then tailgates before veering off. Later, Jessica sees the same Jeep while refueling at a gas station.
After spending the night at a motel, Jessica is about to leave when the man from the Jeep appears, awkwardly apologizing for his earlier behavior. Jessica leaves, but soon encounters him again. He blocks the road, feigning injury with his arm in a sling and asks for a ride, claiming his car has broken down. Jessica, sensing danger, refuses and drives away.
Later that night, she crashes when her trailer fishtails, discovering that the tire was slashed. The man appears, breaks into her car and drugs her; she later wakes up locked in a room in his remote cabin.
He forces her to recount her husband’s suicide and hints at other previous victims.
Now, if you are alone, and that doesn’t make you feel alone, we’re not sure what else will.
Every step of the way, he stays one step ahead of her.
Isn’t this the type of situation where you bring your girlfriend along who likes to hunt?
Or your dog who likes to bite strangers?
Whatever the case, Jessica laments how she is not supposed to be here.
This is a movie worth watching to find out if she escapes.
And, eventually end up where she is supposed to.
The next one is a film clinic on how to make the people involved wish they were not there.
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O’Bannon, based on a story by O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows a spaceship crew who investigate a derelict spaceship and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature.
The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto.
Alien premiered on May 25, 1979, the opening night of the fourth Seattle International Film Festival.
It received a wide release on June 22nd and was released on September 6th in the United Kingdom. It initially received mixed reviews, but won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, three Saturn Awards (Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Cartwright), and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
Did it make money?
Alien grossed $78.9 million in the United States and £7.8 million in the United Kingdom during its first theatrical run. Its worldwide gross to date has been estimated at between $104 million and $203 million.
In subsequent years, Alien was critically reassessed and is now considered one of the greatest and most influential science fiction and horror films of all time.
We greatly agree.
Here is the storyline.
The commercial space tug Nostromo is returning to Earth with a seven-member crew in “stasis” (suspended animation): captain Dallas, executive officer Kane, warrant officer Ripley, navigator Lambert, science officer Ash, and engineers Parker and Brett.
The ship’s computer, Mother, detects a transmission from a nearby planetoid and awakens the crew. Following company policy to investigate transmissions indicating intelligent life, they land on the surface, but the ship is damaged. Dallas, Kane, and Lambert discover the transmission comes from a derelict alien spaceship. Inside is a large, mummified alien corpse with a hole in its torso. Later, Mother partially deciphers the transmission, which Ripley determines is a warning beacon and not an SOS as originally thought.
The plot thickens.
This is another edge on your seat thriller, if you haven’t seen it.
Talk about, you’re not supposed to be there. And the crew really wasn’t supposed to be there.
In real life, if you find yourself where you are not supposed to be, the real trick, like in the movies, is to find a way to get out of it.
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