Southern Comfort (1981) drops a group of National Guard soldiers into the Louisiana bayou and slowly turns a routine exercise into a nightmare. Directed by Walter Hill and scored by Ry Cooder, it’s a movie less about action and more about fear, confusion, and being trapped in a world you don’t understand, making it one of the most tense and underrated survival thrillers of the early 80s. | Midnight Movie Snack

Nightmare (also known as Nightmares in a Damaged Brain) is a 1981 American slasher film written and directed by Romano Scavolini, and starring Baird Stafford and Sharon Smith. Its plot follows a deranged man, subject to a medical experiment, who leaves his New York City psychiatric institute to murder his ex-wife and child in Florida. Nightmare gained instant notoriety among horror fans when it was banned in the UK as a video nasty and its distributor was sentenced to 18 months in prison for ref