Backwoods/Hillbilly gothic (art & culture)

Lawn Dogs also features some prime Sam Rockwell ass. I really liked that movie a lot, as well. It's kind of sad to see what became of Mischa Barton.

Playlist, Track One...

Have you read Flannery O'Connor?

Well, there's always "Night of the Hunter".

Is this what you're looking for?

Basically the energy of SQUIDBILLIES.

Basically the energy of SQUIDBILLIES.

Early Cormac McCarthy novels.

Winter’s Bone 🍖 w/JLaw

Copperhead Road by Steve Earle

A Date With Elvis by The Cramps.

Choctaw Bingo by James McMurtry

You get some glimpses of Gothic backwood culture when watching [italic]Justified[/italic].

An indie movie, [italic]Songcatcher[/italic], has an ethnomusicologist traveling the North Carolina Piedmont recording folk music. Most of the movie is an Romance-with-an-Outsider drama, but the climax of the movie is Gothic backwood craziness. It stars Janet McTeer and Aidan Quinn. It contains a lesbian subplot, FWIW.

Yes. Lawn dogs. One of my favorite watchs.

That disturbing documentary “The Wild Whites of West Virginia” I think it’s called. Also on the much more tasteful side, Coalminers Daughter. The novels of Harry Crews Faulkner’s Snopeses.

The whole saga of the 'West Memphis Three'.

DL favorite Tori Amos' Boys For Pele album sleeve design is pretty much hillibilly art including a piglet sucking on Tori's tit.

The "Home" episode of [italic]the X-Files[/italic] creeped the audience out so badly that it was only broadcast once. Hillbilly Gothic Supreme! It reminded me of the horror comics my brother brought home in the early 70s.

Let's bust us some far-works with Skeeter Pyro

The mullet family

Where the Lilies Bloom. It's a novel and a movie starring ex-Mrs. James Brolin Jan Smithers.

I got me nine kids and Pa ain't nowhere around.

[italic]Criminal Minds[/italic]'s "Blood Relations" episode features Datalounge fave Adrienne Barbecue as the team struggles to find a backwoods serial killer when feuding families won't cooperate with the investigation.

The movie THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME on Netflix right now is a great example, but it is far, far inferior to the original novel by Donald Ray Pollock.

Alt. country music does a good job at looking at that world without the rose-colored glasses, at least some of the time. Some songs glorify that life, but some show the ugliness and difficulties about it. This is a good record.

THE BEANS OF EGYPT, MAINE

Almost any novel by Faulker and Carson McCullers (especially BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE) and Harry Crews

All of the fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Breece D'J Pancake

R18 Dear god, that traumatized me so much that I stopped watching X-Files for years.

“Ozark”

I didn’t see it, but that movie with Christina Ricci and Samuel L Jackson chains her up?

James Purdy's NARROW ROOMS (1978) will satisfy OP's desires. It's a masterpiece.

Novel (Davis Grubb), screenplay (James Agee) and completed film (Charles Laughton): THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER.

Shy People, a 1987 movie with Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh and Martha Plimpton, depicts life in the backwoods bayous of Louisiana.

Available in full on YouTube.

The 1995-96 series American Gothic

Digging to China

John Ford's worst film: TOBACCO ROAD (41).

Anthony Mann's excellent GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (58).

R23 Several Criminal Minds episodes fit the bill. Others are "The Big Game" and "Revelations", featuring DL fave James Van Der Beek.

[quote] Anthony Mann's excellent GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (58).

Tina Louise and Aldo Ray at their hottest!

The saga of Aileen Wuornos.

Some of Jim Thompson's fabulously nasty noir novels: CROPPER'S CABIN; WILD TOWN; POP. 1280; THE KILLER INSIDE ME; etc.

Early David Gordon Greene films, plus his 2013 movie Joe. The work of director Jeff Nichols. Plus: Blue Ruin, Out of the Furnace, Little Woods, Serena, Frozen River, Winter's Bone, Leave No Trace.

The 1945 laff riot MURDER, HE SAYS. Fred MacMurray and Marjorie Main.

William Faulkner's SANCTUARY (31) and the film version, THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE (32) [Criterion Collection].

A cute old comic strip called Pogo about a southern opossum.

Russ Meyer film called Mudhoney.

DL won’t let me post the pictures, but Drive Through Truckers and their cover art by Wes Freed.

Lil Abner the musical

Red Dirt with hot man on man flirting, plus Karen Black as a fragile recluse. What more could you ask for?

thx for the heads up on this superb movie......BEST FILM IVE SEEN IN WEEKS......sam rockwell is divine as usual.....wanna watch it again...love when he kisses that cute smartass closet queen boy

^^lawn dogs bein the film im referring to.....GOOD ONE.

Back Roads, by Tawni O'Dell. Takes place in rural southwestern Pennsylvania coal country. Alex Prettyfer made a movie out of it. Any of her books, really.

LAWN DOGS BLEW MY MIND, SO SWEET YET SCAREY WEIRD TOO, MMM SAM ROCKWELL

Hey r18, was that the one with the three troglodytes and woman in a box? That was one of the few times I have been unsettled after watching something on tv.

White Trash Cooking. Seriously.

Is that by Sandra Lee?

That was it, r51. I missed the broadcast and didn't see it until I rented [italic]X-Files[/italic] DVDs. Once was quite enough for me.

Season 1 of True Detective.

Some Cindy Sherman.

Vivian Mayer.

Gillian Flynn’s novels “Sharp Objects” and “Dark Places”

Who is the hillbilly obsessed poster?

It's weird. Why not move to West Virginia and be done with it, man?

You want hillbilly backwoods culture? pick up the Firefox series if they're still available.

An entire cultural and how to series on living in Appalachia.

Check out Shelby Lee Adams. He is a photographer and there is also a documentary about Appalachian hillbillies.