By.
Rodney Cannon
In the never ending quest to cash in on the next fad more and more
horror movies are released each year and it seems like more and more are almost identical to the previous one. As a life long fan of the genre I
was beginning to think that there would and could be anything new under the
sun and then a movie like Tucker and Dale vs. Evil comes along and my
faith is temporarily restored.
At first you think that it is going to be just a comedy disguised as a slasher
film. If it was that and if it was only that it would rank as one of the greatest send up
of the slasher film genre ever done, but, then it steers down a road that it has
paved for itself.
Let’s begin at the beginning and I will try not to give away any more than
the trailer gives away.
Tucker and Dale are two country boys who have achieved a life long dream
by purchasing a summer home in the wood (it’s a broke down shack that is not
bad for a backwoods man-cave). On their way there these guy are spotted by the
group of kids in a SUV. These young people immediately identify Tucker
and Dale as a threat. Dangerous backwoods, Hills have Eyes, Wrong Turn, kind
of hillbillies out to killer and eat anyone who takes well the Wrong Turn into their
neck of the woods. Why not? It happens in the movies and it even happened to
one of the these kid’s parents.
What follows is a comedy of one massive misunderstanding after another.
Each one more bloody and grizzly than the one before. When you think that you
have the rhythm and can predict where this ride will take you, oh no, guess again.
There is even the old classic use of can the hero save the girl saw mill scene in
this film.
This movie never stops trying. It never gives up and just when you think
that it is done with you, it throws another massive gag at you just before the
credits roll.
If you laugh at things that others find disturbing or gruesome then this is
the film for you. If you are like me and you need a break from the next remake of
a remake then find this film and enjoy.
This is absolute the one movie this year that delivers what it promises. Tucker
and Dale vs. Evil is a winner.
