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The Evolution of Horror

FOLK Pt 9: Hicksploitation (1977-2010)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Grab your banjo, don your M.A.G.A. hat and head on down to West Virginia. This week we Mike is joined by Brad Hanson to discuss hillbillies, bogans and hoodies for ten (ish) spoiler-free (ish) reviews of some of the most notable hicksploitation movies from the last 40 years.

Follow Brad on LETTERBOXD (mainly because he's upset about having less followers than EOH) for the full list of films covered this week.

Music by Jack Whitney.

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0:00.0

The I'm going to go. The Almost heaven West Virginia.

0:25.0

Big candy cane.

0:27.0

The mountain.

0:30.0

Candy can. What the hell is the trouble. Just get it!

0:33.0

What the matter is here?

0:35.0

Don't you like clown?

0:39.0

Anybody out there no candy cane?

0:42.0

And you can't escape God's wrath. to the place. Oh, what's make you aware.

0:53.0

She loves.

0:54.0

We're talking, honey.

0:56.0

Virginia.

0:58.0

Mountain Mama.

1:01.0

Take me home.

1:03.0

Home. Country roads. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host.

1:22.0

Now if you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome.

1:24.2

In this podcast, we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre

1:28.2

by looking at particular sub-genres

1:29.9

across a number of weeks.

1:31.7

We are currently in the midst of exploring the evolution of folk horror and this is part 9 in which we are going to take a little diversion, a wrong turn you you might say, away from traditional British folk horror and into a particular

1:47.1

arm of folk horror that we like to call exploitation.

1:52.3

So we've got lots of movies along those lines and a few that are

1:55.2

kind of on the periphery to discuss. We're going to give you a whole list of movies,

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