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| “ | He’s got a real purdy mouth, ain't he?! | „ |
| ~ One of the hillbillies, while harassing his victims. |
| “ | I betcha can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee! | „ |
| ~ The Hillbillies' infamous line, said by one as he sodomizes Bobby Trippe. |
The Hillbillies are the main antagonists of the 1972 film Deliverance.
They are amongst the most infamous of live-action villains due to a controversial rape scene in which these "mountain men" subjected one of their victims to a terrible sexual ordeal that has gone down as one of the few male-on-male sex scenes in cinema history and one of the most disturbing portrayals of a sexual assault in cinema. They are symbolic of the "small town mentality" associated with many rural people across the world but particularly in areas where "hillbillies" were said to reside, only amplified to a much greater extent.
They were portrayed by the late Herbert "Cowboy" Coward and the late Bill McKinney.
Biography[]
The Hillbillies encountered the protagonists while in the forest, one of them carrying a shotgun. After a careless remark about moonshine angered one of the hillbillies they proceeded to violently rape one of the "outsiders", Bobby, while tying the other to a tree, forcing him to watch as they tortured and sodomized his friend.
However, the hillbillies were unaware that one of the group's friends, Lewis, was homing in on the commotion, armed with a bow and arrow. As one of the hillbillies was about to orally rape Drew, Lewis proceeded to kill one of the hillbillies with an arrow through the stomach, forcing the other to flee.
The group then have a debate on whether or not to inform the authorities about the self-defense killing; given their remoteness, they elect not to, and simply bury the body. The group of friends then shakily try to escape their ordeal via canoeing down a river but are pursued by the shotgun-welding hillbilly who chases the others down the river; in the ensuing pursuit Drew dies, with Ed and Lewis thinking that the hillbilly killed Drew. With Lewis injured during their flight down the river, it falls to Ed to climb to the top of the riverside cliffs and confront their stalker. Ed manages to kill the hillbilly, whose dead body is tied down with weights and tossed into the river by Ed, Lewis, and Bobby to ensure it will never be found.
Lewis is convinced that Drew died from a gunshot fired by the hillbilly. However, the is not known for certain, since Drew's body is also buried in the river order to avoid the legal repercussions of a police investigation.