Tuck & Dale were killing it. I was dying from laughter.

Rating: 8/10 (8 September 2014)

I like watching movies about Good Ole' Boys taking out evil. Two reasons why redneck murderers get away with their crime. The DNA all matches and there are no dental records. Still, Tuck & Dale GITS-ER-DONE!! It's a fun watch! The people from the Appalachian Mountains has always had to dealt with outsiders projected them with negative Appalachian often derogatory stereotypes such as murderers Hillbillies or rapist Rednecks due to horror films such as Deliverance (1972), The Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Friday the 13th (1980) & Mother's Day (1980). In these films, a group of city slickers gets lost in the backwoods and are hunted and slaughtered by psychopathic in-bred hillbillies. However, Tucker and Dale turns the table with its plot. Directed by Eli Craig, Tuck (Alan Tudyk) & Dale (Tyler Labine) are not psychopathic hicks, but just normal guys trying to rebuild their summer home, only to have out of town, college kids leaded by Chad (Jesse Moss) mistake them for brutal killers and try to murder them! This movie show a bright light on the misunderstanding between people and how jumping to conclusion about someone, based solely on his or her physical appearance can become deadly. The movie pretty smart with its themes. The jokes are funny. I love all the out-of-context misunderstanding jokes. The movie does spoof a lot of previous horror films like the weapons they use, like the over long scythe from 1977's Eaten Alive and 1982's Unhinged to the chainsaw from 1974's Texas Chain Saw Massacre & 1987's Evil Dead. Even the opening has this The Blair Witch Project (1999) feel with a lost-footage sequence. There is a lot of Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis topics running around throughout the film, ranging from understanding Inferiority vs superior complex, the understanding of dreams, life and death drives and others. The movie does have faults, as it's hard to suspense your disbelief, in particular, all of the silly mishap ways of dispatching the college kids through a series of accidents. Yet, it so surreal absurd that all the improbability doesn't really matter too much, as its funny to watch how the college kids end up dead meat. It's also a bit far fetch for a girl like Allison (Katrina Bowden) to be find herself, falling in love with Dale. Tyler Labine really does come off as "Larry the Cable Guy," type of a guy, as some fans might mistake it for Larry the Cable Guy movie. You also get a lot of inside jokes about Tyler Labine previous acting jobs such as Dale holding a Scythe, which represent his role as Alan Sock from 2007 to 2009, CW TV Series; 'Reaper'. I'm quite pleased to say all the actors play their parts well and are easily likable. Still, the movie kinda spoil the fact that Jesse Ross comes across, the villain; way too early in the film. I would rather have a slow build to that. Even the whole backstory of Jesse Ross seem a bit rushed. There is no reason for the closure that he got. Even the trailer, steal almost all of the best jokes and lines from the film. It even feature most of the deaths. So, I wouldn't advice, watching the trailer for this film if you haven't saw it. The gore and violence in the film is graphic, all done in a comedic matter. There is one scene of nudity, but it's in poor light and from some distance. It's a bit disappointing. The music choice for the film, kinda sucks with the teen rock type music. It felt quite out of place as well. I'm sure it cleared the theater very quickly when it came out. After that, there's a much more fitting country song. The DVD version is pretty good copy. The DVD likewise contains a 15-minute bonus feature called Tucker and Dale ARE Evil, which re-edit version of the film, told from the story from the college kids' point of view that makes Tucker and Dale look like they killed everybody. Overall: Very enjoyable, easy-going horror satire low budget comedy. Oh, hidey-ho, Tuck and Dale had a doozy of a day and it was fun to watch.