Hixploitation

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

External links

• Listing of Hixploitation films @ THE DEUCE: Grindhouse Cinema Database