Damn, I forgot about Tucker and Dale. Maybe I should have mentioned that as my favorite scary movie of the '10s.
We need more movies portraying retarded college kids and urbanites as evil horrific monsters and murderers. It's a better reflection of reality than the hordes of movies about evil rural people that Hollywood has produced.
It's a better reflection of reality than the hordes of movies about evil rural people that Hollywood has produced.
Right?
Not saying the rurals are always the good guys, but it's amazing the people with the stereotype of 'leave me to mine' are somehow the bad guys. I'm more likely to have something in common with them than the college kids.
Its the culmination of the liberalization of media. Rurals are constantly shown to be uneducated, racist, and traditional in all their values in the media. This is the most terrifying thing possible to a soft Leftie urban bug, someone who not only rejects their political pedestal but also is immune to their shaming tactics to get them into line.
As such, these "hicks" can be assigned every negative trait under the sun for any horror you want. Want them to be cannibals? Texas Chainsaw got you covered. Gay rapists? Deliverance got it. Literally deformed demons? Wrong Turn is here!
What the Southerners/Rurals/Hillbillies actually are or believe is irrelevant. What's important is the Lefties consider them subhuman, so bad writers can just slap random evil on them and no one will raise an eyebrow about it.
It also serves to propagandize to the masses that the cities they live in are much better and safer than that horrid countryside. That they're not covered in filth and disease, that they're not populated with crazed killers who would sooner shoot or stab you as look at you, and that you won't disappear forever if you so much as step into the wrong place. No, it's the COUNTRY that's like that, stay away from there! And don't question why the cities have all those problems in exponentially greater numbers or why no one's doing anything about them.
That and they absolutely cannot have people going out and interacting with such folks directly, that would break their entire narrative into pieces. Because once they see that those rural folks aren't mindlessly hateful, might even be "progressive" to some extent (lord did I know a few hardcore Dems down the Bayou) and are downright kind to their neighbors in a way cities don't have, they will be unable to keep up the charade of a boogeyman.
So you write movies that paint them as so insanely violent and territorial that people fear even driving through those places, and are on edge waiting for the shoe to drop talking to anyone around there.
Damn, I forgot about Tucker and Dale. Maybe I should have mentioned that as my favorite scary movie of the '10s.
We need more movies portraying retarded college kids and urbanites as evil horrific monsters and murderers. It's a better reflection of reality than the hordes of movies about evil rural people that Hollywood has produced.
Right?
Not saying the rurals are always the good guys, but it's amazing the people with the stereotype of 'leave me to mine' are somehow the bad guys. I'm more likely to have something in common with them than the college kids.
The scariest place I can think of is public transportation.
True and real.
The true real life version of Midnight Meat Train.
Its the culmination of the liberalization of media. Rurals are constantly shown to be uneducated, racist, and traditional in all their values in the media. This is the most terrifying thing possible to a soft Leftie urban bug, someone who not only rejects their political pedestal but also is immune to their shaming tactics to get them into line.
As such, these "hicks" can be assigned every negative trait under the sun for any horror you want. Want them to be cannibals? Texas Chainsaw got you covered. Gay rapists? Deliverance got it. Literally deformed demons? Wrong Turn is here!
What the Southerners/Rurals/Hillbillies actually are or believe is irrelevant. What's important is the Lefties consider them subhuman, so bad writers can just slap random evil on them and no one will raise an eyebrow about it.
It also serves to propagandize to the masses that the cities they live in are much better and safer than that horrid countryside. That they're not covered in filth and disease, that they're not populated with crazed killers who would sooner shoot or stab you as look at you, and that you won't disappear forever if you so much as step into the wrong place. No, it's the COUNTRY that's like that, stay away from there! And don't question why the cities have all those problems in exponentially greater numbers or why no one's doing anything about them.
That and they absolutely cannot have people going out and interacting with such folks directly, that would break their entire narrative into pieces. Because once they see that those rural folks aren't mindlessly hateful, might even be "progressive" to some extent (lord did I know a few hardcore Dems down the Bayou) and are downright kind to their neighbors in a way cities don't have, they will be unable to keep up the charade of a boogeyman.
So you write movies that paint them as so insanely violent and territorial that people fear even driving through those places, and are on edge waiting for the shoe to drop talking to anyone around there.