Hillbilly Horrors
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Works where the horror lurks in the realm of rural areas where modern man doesn't belong. Expect inbreds, deranged killers and especially Cannibal Clans (along with Unfortunate Implications).
Don't Go in The Woods (usually in the Deep/Savage South) is the most common flavor, though other locales such as a swamps, deserts, abandoned towns, deserted islands, endless stretches of highway, beneath the bustling city streets, and even snowscapes have seen use.
The Other Wiki refers to this as "Hixploitation".
Examples of Hillbilly Horrors include:
Film
- And Soon the Darkness
- Ax 'Em
- Cabin Fever
- The Cabin in the Woods (part of it, anyway; it gets complicated after that)
- Carver
- Deliverance
- The Devils Rejects
- Don't Go in the Woods
- Eaten Alive
- Eden Lake (for Oop North)
- Friday the 13 th
- Frontiers
- Hatchet
- House of 1000 Corpses
- The Hills Have Eyes
- I Drink Your Blood
- I Spit on Your Grave
- Jeepers Creepers
- Joy Ride
- Just Before Dawn
- Madman
- Man-Thing
- Monster Man
- Motel Hell
- Motor Home Massacre
- The Nail Gun Massacre
- Pumpkinhead
- Shark Night (the sharks are the "pets" of some redneck Snuff Film makers)
- Sick Girl
- Straw Dogs (moreso The Remake)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (a Deconstructive Parody of the genre)
- Two Thousand Maniacs
- Violent Shit (just the first two)
- Wolf Creek
- The Woman
- Wrong Turn
Literature
Live Action TV
- Parodied on a Saturday Night Live sketch from Season 26, Episode 14. A man is in a car accident, and when he wakes up, asks where he is. He's told, "You're tied to a bed in a shack. We're weird hillbilly cannibals and we're gonna stick things in your butt." After he freaks out, he's told he's actually in a hospital; the hillbilly cannibal thing is "an old hospital joke".