Movies about trips gone wrong are as old as Hollywood. Some of the funniest, scariest, or most stressful films come from this sub-genre and we are here to celebrate those movies with this list. Whether it’s a classic comedy like City Slickers or an action/horror movie like Deliverance, these are our favorite movies about vacations that ended up a total nightmare.
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National Lampoon’s Vacation
You can’t have this list without the all-time classic road trip disaster that is National Lampoon’s Vacation. Everyone has been on a family road trip; it’s a rite of passage in the United States. Thankfully, most don’t go as bad as this Griswold’s Chicago-to-California trip to WallyWorld. It’s such a classic that it launched a mini-franchise.
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Deliverance
There is no movie ever made about a camping trip that goes as bad as Deliverance. The Burt Reynolds-led classic from 1972 has become a cliche for a nightmare of a canoe trip (or really any trip into
32 Of The Wildest Vacations In Movies Where Everything Went Wrong
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