How about an obscure Kevin Bacon movie?

Posted by jackie879@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 37 comments

Anyone familiar with this one? As a kid it made me fearful of bridges, whitewater, camping and the wilderness in general.

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LordQuasDiscipline99@reddit

This isn’t obscure at all. It’s mandatory viewing. Kevin Bacon in an excellent villain role.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Also in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

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StarWarsPopCulture@reddit

Great movie with a realistic ratchet to the sadistic nature of a leader who means well but crosses the line.

I liked the fact they didn’t take it too extreme. Kevin’s character never went too over the top, and everyone stayed more or less realistic.

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InformalThroat9602@reddit

I just remember male teenage voices screaming “Vic” over and over

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bradyblack@reddit

The tonal shift in this movie is epic.

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idiotsbydesign@reddit

Absolutely. I love the 2nd half of this movie. Seemed like it was on HBO everyday one summer.

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Entangled-again@reddit

I've never watched this but really should. It's apparently (very) loosely based on my dad's terrible camp experience.

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Profeshinal_Spellor@reddit

Hell yeah. I just took my 16 year old son and 3 of his friends backpacking last weekend and after the trip I them to watch this for laughs

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L1QU1D_ThUND3R@reddit

If I had a nickel for every Kevin Bacon film about white water rafting, I would have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

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Calbebes@reddit

Lol same. Like, wasn’t he in The River Wild?…. Which was also about white water rafting?

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I remembered this one because I think most people just think of River Wild. Watched both. Damn Kevin Bacon is great in River Wild, I haven't hated a character so much in a movie in a while. Had forgotten most of the movie so was quite a ride.

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CoralQuilts@reddit

That’s a great movie

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hamburgler26@reddit

Found this and watched it recently, still really fun.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

Hell yeah, pair it w his cyclist movie Quicksilver (reimagined as premium rush)

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Flowing_Greem@reddit

The River Wild was crazy great!!

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CReeseRozz@reddit

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

He’s a good villain!

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Valahiru@reddit

Shelved for two years after production and then they shot the "host segments" with Sean Astin when someone finally decided to out money into distribution. I think this alone makes it a very unique film.

Also it never occurred to me as a kid that Kevin Bacon really didn't know what he was going to do if Astin never made it back to camp. When the kids try to abandon him he realizes he could have been responsible for the death of a kid and he was probably going to jail or at least being sued with all the kids against him.

Falling off that cliff was the best outcome for him.

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reamkore@reddit

No one’s going anywhere we are all going north!

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beebs44@reddit

NOW IF IT'S LOVE THAT YOU'RE RUNNIN FROM

THERE'S NO HIDING PLACE

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