Descendants of Deliverance: Tracing the Lineage of the Rural Horror Film

[KrugStillo]

Hello horror fans.

For some time now, I've been trying to gather a comprehensive collection of the rural horror films. Also referred to as "Urbanoia" films, these are descendents of the film "Deliverance" (Boorman, 1972) but, more specifically, they owe a big debt to Hooper's groundbreaking "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (Hooper, 1974).

I have listed all of the ones in my collection below. If ANYONE can think of others, please contribute them to this thread!

List:

Breakdown (Mostow, 1997)

Children of the Corn (Kiersch, 1984)

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (Price, 1993)

Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (Hickox, 1995)

Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (Spence, 1996)

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (Wiley, 1998)

Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (Skogland, 1999)

Children of the Corn: Revelation (Magar, 2001)

Crazies, The (Romero, 1973)

Deliverance (Boorman, 1972)

Devil's Rejects, The (Zombie, 2005)

Eaten Alive (Hooper, 1977)

Gator Bait (Sebastian & Sebastian, 1974)

Gator Bait II: Cajun Justice (Sebastian & Sebastian, 1988)

Hills Have Eyes, The (Craven, 1977)

Hills Have Eyes, The (Aja, 2006)

Hills Have Eyes II, The (Craven, 1985)

Hills Have Eyes II, The (Weisz, 2007)

House of 1000 Corpses (Zombie, 2003)

I Spit on Your Grave (Zarchi, 1978)

Jeepers Creepers (Salva, 2001)

Jeepers Creepers II (Salva, 2003)

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (Burr, 1990)

Pigs (Lawrence, 1972)

Redneck County (????, 1975)

Savage Weekend (Paulsen, 1976)

Southern Comfort (Hill, 1981)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (Hooper, 1974)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (Nispel, 2003)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, The (Hooper, 1983)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, The (Liebesman, 2006)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Henkel, 1994)

Turistas (Stockwell, 2006)

Wolf Creek (McLean, 2005)

Wrong Turn (Schmidt, 2003)

Wrong Turn II: Dead End (Lynch, 2007)

[crabapple]

Night of the Living Dead fits.

[KrugStillo]

Damnit! Night of the Living Dead. Good call Crabapple. That is now added to the list!

1. Night of the Living Dead (Crabapple)

[Ferox13]

Not sure why you have THE CRAZIES in there...unless the only thing is that they are in an isolated area - if thats the case then u could mention 100s

Just before Dawn

American Gothic

Hunters Blood

Rituals

Incident On and Off A Mountain Road (masters of horror)

Hoboken Hollow

Don't go in the Woods alone (sorta slasher too)

Berserker (sorta slasher too)

I'll think of a few more later.

[crabapple]

Midnight, that one also fits, big time.

Not sure about Invasion of the Blood Farmers, though, heh heh.

[crabapple]

Hmmmmm. And, maybe Eaten Alive.

[neverending]

What- nobody mentions Hillbillies in a Haunted House?

[neverending]

Or 2000 Maniacs?

[massacre man]

Originally Posted by neverending

Or 2000 Maniacs?

Or 2001 Maniacs.

[KrugStillo]

Some of these sound AWESOME! I have some viewing to do.

Tomorrow I will formally update the list and put all of the titles in alphabetical order so we can keep track of things better.