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I was thinking of doing a hillbilly scene, complete with strawbales, pitchforks. I have a half-goat half-man mask I would incorporate as well as hell hound mask.
I am debating between two masks for my hillbilly, One is called putrid pete, the other is really a hillbilly called cletus I think, If you go to fright catalog they have this mask. It is on back order. Which mask should I go with, and any other ideas?

any help here?

Went on fright catalog and didn't find anything called putrid pete. The cletus looks hillbilly enough. I also liked the Edgar mask.

A "The Hills have Eyes" kinda scene would be pretty cool, also!! I dunno if that's what you were going for.

yea, a little cannibilism. Have strawbails with arms hanging ouit and maybe pitchfork going down the middle of it. What you think?

Being a Hillbilly myself I have given this some thought Scorpio, just some ideas: a bloody pumpkin patch with hay bales that have lots of pumpkins and blood spattered everywhere (red paint) your "Hillbilly" (don't forget to dress him in bloody overalls!) jumps from behind holding a severed head and large knife or pitch fork, build a couple of scarecrows going away from the site and one comes alive like Jeepers Creepers.

Check out the Firefly House scenes in House Of 1000 Corpses. They're pretty much evil hillbillies.

I haven't seen the masks, but a "Hill Billy" Haunted House is about original as you can get!!
I've been at this a long time, take my word for it. Depending on where you live, "White Trash Crackers" can be a very effective scare. Props and decor, I'm sure you'll come up ith something. Lighting, trial and error, you'll get it. But, in my experience, the "piece de resistance" in a Haunt scene is the Music. Now, what fits for a "Hill Billy" scare? How about "Duelling Banjoes" from the movie "Deliverence"? It may be lost on a lot of the younger Haunters on this site, but, believe-you-me, that tune from Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs will tighten the scrotum of any man over the age of 40!!!

By the way, where did the term "Cracker" come from?
Ans.- Back inna day, those backwoods folk made whiskey from "cracked corn". They never had enough money to take their corn in to be mashed at a mill.

I have music called hillbilly hell which is quite cool. I should check out deliverence I have not seen it and it has been mentioned a couple times to me now.

Originally Posted by Wolfman

By the way, where did the term "Cracker" come from?
Ans.- Back inna day, those backwoods folk made whiskey from "cracked corn". They never had enough money to take their corn in to be mashed at a mill.

Not in Florida.
The natives are called Crackers. But not because of corn.
Florida used to be a major cow ranching state but the guys were called crackers instead of cowboys because they carried whips. It was the best way to get the cows out of the jungly undergrowth. Instead of trying to get their horses in through the vines and palmettos they would crack their whips at the cows to chase them out.

that's a nice why of explaining the term cracker. that's as far as i'm going with that!