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Possible John Carpenter reference / connection?

posted 9 years ago by marinos theodore
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I watched the movie yesterday and loved it. While watching it, I noticed one thing that I found really interesting: the name on the name tag of the girl in the service station that Mitch and Jack stop in the begining of the movie is "SUTTER".

Sutter Kane was the name of a writer and the antagonist in John Carpenter's "In The Mouth Of Madness". In that movie, an insurance investigator and a representative of a publishing house are tasked with finding the aforementioned wroter after he disappears. After piecing together some clues, they track him down in a town that is not on any map. When they get there, they find that they can't leave because all the roads leading out of the town, seem to loop back into it. Sounds familiar? It might be a coincidence, but I can definitely see some similarities between some of the themes of those two movies.

[–] thekatelopez 9 years ago

I saw that too and I think it must be intentional. There's also a Reddit thread with the directors and a part on the Wiki page that discuss it I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbound_(2015_film)#Hidden_meanings

[–] Paynebyname 8 years ago

Given how similar the music is to a John Carpenter film, I think any other connections would be very intentional.

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