Episode 26: Deliverance (1972)

Today I’m looking at Deliverance (1972), where a canoe trip through rural Georgia starts as a kind of last hurrah and slowly turns into something much darker and harder to come back from. It’s the way the film tightens around these four guys — stripping away comfort and control — that really sticks with me. Still an incredibly unsettling watch, and one that doesn’t really fade once it’s over.