Scary movies # 7 - Deliverance

Year: 1972 Director: John Boorman

Deliverance - who would have thought it possible - a brilliant movie with Burt Reynolds in it - surely a contradiction in terms?

Four friends from the city set off for a weekend canoeing trip down the Cahulawassee River. that is shortly to be flooded to make way for a giant lake. The rivers terrain is tough the river gorge being is difficult to get out, especially when the locals prove and unfriendly bunch, intent on terrorising the group of city slickers.

Deliverance is something quite unusual in the horror / thriller format - its believable, which is the main strength of the movie. helped in no by a superb choice of cast - Burt Reynolds, John Voight and Ned Beatty. It also contains some great scenes (like the Duelling Banjo's and some memorable lines ( "He's got a real pretty mouth on him, don't he").

Click to read our full synopsis and review of Deliverance.

Despite Deliverance putting us off adventure holidays in the backwaters of America for ever, we have made it number 7 in our interactive Haunted House of Horror list of our favourite scary movies.