# Horror movie idea: A clan of insane serial-killer cannibal PREPPIES! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217 "2005-12-26T03:57:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mrunlucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@mrunlucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrunlucky)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217/21 "2005-12-27T05:57:39Z")
> [@Cat Fight](#): > > Still no mention of [Parents](http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0098068/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cT1wYXJlbnRzfGV2PTF8bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=4;ft=126;fm=1) ? > > Carol Clover has quite a bit to say on just this topic (the us vs. them/city mouse vs. country mouse set-up of backwoods horror) in her book [Men, Women and Chainsaws](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691006202/qid=1135655251/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-3255860-0363814?n=507846&s=books&v=glance). > > One of the worst I’ve seen in this subgenre was **Wrong Turn**. From what I remember, the backwoods yokels weren’t even given a motive. Of course they’re going to go after the teens from the city. What else would they do? I think the filmmakers just assumed everyone watching had already seen **Deliverance**. The “motivation” in _Wrong Turn_ was a combination of the inbreds being cannibals, and their apparent thrill at hunting humans. Noting the huge “junkyard” of cars and piles and collections of personal effects, the inbreds went after _anyone_ who drove near their home. ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217/22 "2005-12-27T11:06:42Z")
I recall a Wes Craven movie from the early nineties called “The People Under the Stairs” where the villains were an incestuous brother/sister team. They were religious, but had yuppie vibe. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217/23 "2005-12-28T18:43:45Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > The OP specifically asked for a Yuppie **clan** so Bateman clearly does not, there being only one of him. **Preppie,** not yuppie. Yuppies are petit-bourgeois upstarts. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217/24 "2005-12-28T18:56:48Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > a Kennedy-type of clan wouldn’t work because they’re Irish-Catholic and thus can’t be WASPs. Jack and Jackie showed them that they could out-WASP the WASPs. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217/25 "2005-12-28T21:07:01Z")
Would the **Stepford Wives** count? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217/26 "2005-12-28T22:10:10Z")
> [@Malodorous](#): > > Would the **Stepford Wives** count? Different kind of story entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217/27 "2006-01-01T10:59:23Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > There’s already been a cultured WASP serial-killer: Hannibal Lector in the book and movie versions of _Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs_, and _Hannibal_. > > Also, [nitpick]a Kennedy-type of clan wouldn’t work because they’re Irish-Catholic and thus can’t be WASPs.[/nitpick] Then Hannibal couldn’t be WASP because he wasn’t Anglo-Saxon. I think _Hannibal_ (the novel if not the movie) established him as of East European (if not Russian) extraction. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217/28 "2006-01-01T11:33:28Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Then Hannibal couldn’t be WASP because he wasn’t Anglo-Saxon. I think _Hannibal_ (the novel if not the movie) established him as of East European (if not Russian) extraction. In _Hannibal_, it’s stated that Lector’s mother was Italian\* nobility, and that his father was a Lithuanian count (IIRC, title dating from the 12th century). So cultured, yes; WASP, no. \*I toldja them guys always carry knives! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217/29 "2006-01-01T14:11:23Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Can’t think of a movie, but black cannibals feature in _The Turner Diaries._[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner\_Diaries;](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Diaries;) [http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/ttd.htm](http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/ttd.htm). > > Which has not, as yet, been adapted for the big screen . . . I haven’t finished the screenplay yet… I KEED! I KEED! But I did actually read the damn thing. Whew! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horror-movie-idea-a-clan-of-insane-serial-killer-cannibal-preppies/337217.md?page=1)