Southern Comfort

Movie • 1981 • Action  

Report
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
This movie contains 4 potentially triggering events.
Filter to only show:
Both
Yes
No

Your Triggers
Does the dog die?
464 supporters
Yes
0
No
5
0
CarolynCares
There is a graphic scene where several dogs attack the troop of National Guardsmen, and although we see the troops trying to fight off the attacking dogs with the butts of their rifles, we (thankfully) don't hear any yelping and then the dogs, all of them, run off.
1 comment | Add comment
Unanswered Triggers
Are animals abused?
211 supporters
Yes
0
No
0
0
CarolynCares
We do not see abuse, but we see a lot of dead carcasses, and since the two pigs' REAL shooting and gutting was allowed in this movie, I have no doubt that all the dead rabbits hanging, and the dead dear were likely real as well.
2 comments | Add comment
Is there pedophilia?
137 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Yes
0
No
0
Yes
0
No
0
0
GayleGordon
Lots of them. Dead gutted rabbits hanging. Dead fish, mink, a deer, and game of all kinds. There are hunters and trappers in the story, so we see the animals they killed. One scene shows a man skinning some creature, though it's hard to see what kind of animal it is. Real slaughter of two pigs and other pigs on spits.
1 comment | Add comment
Is a minor sexualized?
117 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Does someone vomit?
111 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Does a horse die?
108 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Is an animal abandoned?
104 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Yes
0
No
0
0
GayleGordon
Pretty gory movie. Not the worst I've seen, but it's there.
1 comment | Add comment
Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
101 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
0
Abuse
Is someone stalked?
24 supporters
Yes
5
No
0
0
GayleGordon
All through the movie, National Guardsmen are stalked and hunted in the bayou by some locals they angered.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there domestic violence?
85 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is someone gaslighted?
34 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is a child abused?
111 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Addiction
0
GayleGordon
One of the National Guardsmen smokes pot and there is some discussion that he sells drugs to high school kids.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there addiction?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does someone abuse alcohol?
20 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Animal
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
184 supporters
Yes
5
No
0
1
RamonaRamone
Two real pigs get taken to a big cookout in the back of a truck in cages. A Cajun guy comes over and shoots them both in the head. The camera does not cut away and you can see at least one of them’s legs twitching after he dropped. I highly suspect they did not use special effects or trained pigs. Afterwards they are graphically gutted (Full disclosure: I did cover my eyes for a few seconds when their guts were first cut into, when I realized those were not stunt pigs). The scene takes place in a very small Cajun town and is in the last 20 minutes. Look away when the guy parks, then walks towards their cages in the truck bed until a minute or two after the gun fires twice, if you can do without seeing two real pigs getting killed onscreen. Poor things.
3 comments | Add comment
Does a cat die?
184 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does a pet die?
172 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Assault
Is someone sexually assaulted?
192 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
33 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is someone burned alive?
46 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is someone buried alive?
30 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there amputation?
29 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there a hanging?
32 supporters
Yes
3
No
0
0
GayleGordon
You don't see it happen or know who did it, but his buddies find his hanging body. Could have been suicide, but it is not clear.
1 comment | Add comment
0
GayleGordon
In the final fight between the Guardsmen and the locals, one of the Guardsmen stabs a local between the legs.
1 comment | Add comment
Does someone fall to their death?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there eye mutilation?
102 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Children
Does a kid die?
61 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Family
Does someone cheat?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Fear
Are there ghosts?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
1
No
2
0
GayleGordon
Quite a few, like the booby trap, and the discovery of team members bodies displayed as a scare tactic.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there a shower scene?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Are there clowns?
17 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is someone possessed?
14 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Are needles/syringes used?
33 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there a mental institution scene?
30 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there a hospital scene?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does someone have cancer?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Mental Health
Is there autism specific abuse?
53 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
2
No
1
0
GayleGordon
One of the guardsmen suffers extreme anxiety, even more than the others.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there body dysmorphia?
27 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
3
Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
48 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Are there flashing lights or images?
49 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does someone miscarry?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is there childbirth?
27 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Are there abortions?
17 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
4
Does a pregnant person die?
28 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
49 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
3
Does an LGBT person die?
36 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Are there fat jokes?
56 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
0
No
3
0
RamonaRamone
Not first.
3 comments | Add comment
Is there hate speech?
32 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
93 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
1
No
2
0
GayleGordon
Not sure if it counts, but some talk of prostitutes and a few crude sex jokes.
1 comment | Add comment
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
1 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
21 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Does a plane crash?
16 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Is someone hit by a car?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Violence
Does someone drown?
24 supporters
Yes
3
No
1
0
GayleGordon
Attempted drowning and someone else gets sucked into a quagmire.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there a nuclear explosion?
9 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
4
No
0
1
GayleGordon
A lot of it. All through the movie.
2 comments | Add comment