The Top 25 Backwoods Horror Movies

This is backwoods horror-comedy at its best, as a pair of bumbling kidnappers take their victim to an isolated rural area that's inhabited by a crazed, homicidal farmer. Bad stuff goes down.

This over-the-top French fare finds a group of looters at an secluded hotel that turns out to be run by neo-Nazis intent on using the guests to either procreate the master race or feed it.

The influential original set the standard for modern backwoods horror, with its tale of an insane family of slaughterhouse workers who enjoy killing, skinning and eating any outsiders who happen by. The remake was a solid expansion of the storyline, despite Michael Bay's involvement.

Wes Craven took The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and added the perverse streak of his own The Last House on the Left for the cult classic original, while French director Alexandre Aja managed to deliver a worthy reimagining.

The genius locale of a summer camp serves as the setting for this classic series of unusually consistent films featuring Jason Vorhees (and his mother) dispatching of horny counselors and partygoers who dare set foot on his land: "Get off my lawn!" (I like to envision Jason with Clint Eastwood's voice.)