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Hixploitation

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Hicksploitation, also spelled hixploitation, is a genre of exploitation film relying on stereotypical depictions of rural whites of the American South and Appalachia (i.e. hill billies or hicks), usually for purposes of horror.

Prominent examples

  • Child Bride (1938)
  • Shotgun Wedding (1963)
  • Common Law Wife (film) (1963)
  • Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
  • Moonshine Mountain (1964)
  • Mudhoney (film) (1965)
  • Shanty Tramp (1967)
  • Common Law Cabin (1967)
  • Country Cuzzins (1970)
  • Deliverance (1972)
  • The Pig Keeper's Daughter (1972)
  • Walking Tall (1973)
  • Hot Summer in Barefoot County (1974)
  • Mama's Dirty Girls (1974)
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
  • Nashville Girl (1976)
  • Moonshine County Express (1977)
  • The Hills Have Eyes (1977, remade 2006)
  • Eaten Alive (1977)
  • Just Before Dawn (1981)
  • Southern Comfort (1981)
  • Redneck Zombies (1987)
  • Wrong Turn (2003)
  • House of 1,000 Corpses (2003)
  • Monster Man (2003)
  • Hatchet (2006)
  • Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)
  • Madness (2010)
  • Inbred (2011)
  • References

    Hixploitation Wikipedia