Hilarious

Rating: 8/10 (18 September 2011)

A brilliant horror comedy, probably the best of its genre since Shawn of the Dead. It'd probably surpass that film if it didn't stumble pretty badly in its final act, but it's still a ball. Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk (of Firefly) are two country boys visiting Tudyk's newly purchased cabin in the woods. Meanwhile, a group of preppy college students take them for psycho hillbillies. When Tucker and Dale save one of the students (Katrina Bowden of 30 Rock fame) from drowning, they take her back to their cabin to recover. Her boyfriend (Jesse Moss) and the other students think that she's been captured and attempt to save her, and generally behave as if they're in a slasher movie. And that's including the cast attrition, as every attempt to exterminate Tucker and Dale leads to the students' grisly demise, one after another. The concept only works to a certain point, and then it attempts to go for some further twists, and they don't generally work. But still, it's amusing even when it's not working, and absolutely hilarious when it is. Labine and Tudyk are both wonderful as the goofy, warm-hearted rednecks who cannot figure out for the life of them why these college students seem to be committing mass suicide around them. A true original, and one of the most entertaining movies I've seen in a while.