Tag: Deliverance

Camping Horror Movies: Ten Movies To Scare You Out Of Your Sleeping Bag

May 29, 2021.Reading time 12 minutes.

Canada has already celebrated its official first long weekend of the summer. Now America is ringing its first long weekend. As the weather warms up, families and rowdy young adults will be heading out for camping and deep woods hikes. But horror fans know better. Whether it’s rural hillbilly horror or survival horror, horror has […]

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The ‘Rural Other’ in Backwoods Horror

June 1, 2018.Reading time 10 minutes.

John Boorman’s 1972 film Deliverance is considered a landmark achievement in cinema. Its story of four ‘big city’ friends stalked and assaulted by backwoods locals on a wilderness canoe trip earned multiple Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. While not a horror film, Deliverance played a significant role in popularizing one of horror’s most popular subgenres […]

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