A funny spin on a horror staple.

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2011)

Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil takes a horror genre staple as turns it on its head. Instead of a family of inbred hillbillies slaughtering (and often eating) some hapless out-of-towners, we get a duo of lovable backwoods guys named Tucker and Dale. They find themselves stereotyped, feared, and utterly bewildered by some visiting college kids. Their attempt to save one of them from drowning is misconstrued as kidnapping, and the kids end up killing themselves in hilarious ways while trying to "rescue" their friend.
Tucker and Dale really is a funny movie, with a lot of the death scenes being especially comic. Who knew death by wood chipper could be so hilarious?
It slows down a bit and loses some of its comic edge as it goes on and starts to resemble a typical horror movie a bit more, but I still highly recommend this to anyone interested in seeing a familiar horror story from a different (and amusing) angle.