Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010)
7/10
Eli Craig
89 minutes
Alan Tudyk,
Katrina Bowden,
Chelan Simmons,
Tyler Labine,
Brandon Jay McLaren,
Jesse Moss,
Christie Laing,
Alex Arsenault,
Philip Granger,
Travis Nelson,
Tye Evans,
Bill Baksa,
Adam Beauchesne,
Joseph Allan Sutherland
Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a successful blend of comedy, a creative premise, likeable characters, and some blood and gore for good measure. It's amazing how the flick still hasn't received the proper distribution that it deserves. Definitely give this a check.
Tucker & Dale vs Evil is simply one of the best horror comedies to come out of the genre in recent years, yet for some reason it still hasn’t found proper US distribution. While other films are creating failed spoofs off the success of recent and past efforts, this flick managed to deliver the laughs by giving us something more creative and fresh.
Like the backwood slashers that the pic pokes fun at, we follow a group of young 20-somethings on their way to a little camping adventure somewhere in the outskirts of the city. After a brief and misunderstood encounter with our leads at a gas station, the group bunk up near a lake for some boozing and ghost stories. Normally we stick with the pack of young "city folk" through the entirety of the film, but not in this case, as our leads are actually a couple
kind-hearted rednecks named Tucker and Dale, who are also out in the woods to get a little much-needed R&R. In fact, the duo purchased a quaint little "vacation home" deep in the wooded area that they hope to fix up.
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