Stuck for a film to watch I put out a rallying cry to my Facebook friends. They responded in droves, naming fantastic movies I’ve already seen or putting forward ones for future viewing but one title kept recurring: Tucker & Dale Vs Evil. I did a bit of background, watched the trailer and thought that’s the flick for me!
The movie takes the classic horror premise of good looking college kids going camping in spooky woods to find that they’re not alone. But the hillbillies that the college kids think are out to get them are Tucker and Dale, two good-natured – if rough around the edges – country guys in the woods to renovate a run down, creepy looking old shack that they’ve bought as a holiday home.
It’s such a simple twist on a tired horror premise that I’m surprised I haven’t seen something like this before. Alan Tudyk as Tucker and especially Tyler Labine who plays Dale are hilarious as the two hapless hillbillies and there are enough gruesome deaths to satisfy horror fans. For me this is one of the funniest comedy horror flicks since Shaun of the Dead.
The movie takes the classic horror premise of good looking college kids going camping in spooky woods to find that they’re not alone. But the hillbillies that the college kids think are out to get them are Tucker and Dale, two good-natured – if rough around the edges – country guys in the woods to renovate a run down, creepy looking old shack that they’ve bought as a holiday home.
It’s such a simple twist on a tired horror premise that I’m surprised I haven’t seen something like this before. Alan Tudyk as Tucker and especially Tyler Labine who plays Dale are hilarious as the two hapless hillbillies and there are enough gruesome deaths to satisfy horror fans. For me this is one of the funniest comedy horror flicks since Shaun of the Dead.
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