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)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
- 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
External links
- Listing of Hixploitation films @ THE DEUCE: Grindhouse Cinema Database
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