surprisingly original and funny

Rating: 8/10 (7 October 2012)

Tucker and Dale are two best friends who have just bought a vacation home in the woods. but there fun is stopped by a group of college kids, cause while rescuing one of them from drowning in her unconsciousness (she hit her head) the rest run away thinking the two to be vicious murderers. this is fueled by a typical scary story (hillbillies murdered a group of people in that same area, but one survived) told by one of the kids, miscommunication between the two groups and plenty of amusing accidental suicides that are interpreted as murders.
to start, what makes this film different to other horror comedies are two things. 1. the film is backwards. the usual villains and hero's are switched around to start, the college kids being sort of unintentional villains thinking that they are saving there friend, while the hillbillies are the hero's mistaken as villains who think these kids are killing themselves and also trying to kill Allison, the girl the two saved.
2. it avoids and upends clichés. it doesn't make many mistakes in being original while making fun of some horror clichés. i enjoyed the whole miscommunication between the two groups, with both jumping to ridiculous and amusing conclusions in amongst the panic. i don't think a single murder in this was on purpose, one trips and jumps into a wood chipper, two impale themselves on sharp sticks, one even shoots himself in the face while taking the safety off the gun. most of these are seen by the college kids as murder due to the way its seen (tucker holding the kid who jumped in the wood chippers legs)
overall this film ticks all the boxes to be a cult classic. its surprisingly original, has some great characters, gory deaths and is really funny to watch. its quite different to what you would normally watch in horror comedies and it succeeds really well in what it does. i would recommend this quite highly.