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Deliverance

I'd been recommended this by my father in law and sat on it for a few months before watching, not for any particular reason other than I didn't expect a whole lot. I hold my hands up and admit I was wrong!

I guess this is an older film compared to some of the others on my Most Disturbing list, but it really doesn't show it's age at all. The 'squeal like a pig' scene is the one I don't think I'll ever erase from memory - I think because of me not knowing what to expect - and so for that reason I'm not going to say much more on the matter.

The next image I haven't been able to shift and that's the toothless grin of the one redneck, having read a little about the film afterwards he was apparently a suggestion by Burt Reynolds to the director having worked with him in a stage play previously... he was brilliantly cast here IMO.

The movie itself is about a group of four friends who go on a camping/canoeing trip down the Mississippi River. Events transpire that lead them to killing a man, disposing of the body, then trying to cover their tracks... only a friend of the dead mans knows where they are and is intent on killing them for revenge.

The suspense to this film is done brilliantly, there are more twists and turns than the Mississippi has herself and it's thoroughly enjoyable. The film itself doesn't place so highly on my list purely because it's not what I would find 'disturbing' - bit either way this is an amazing film, and I recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it before. Well worth the watch!