Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Review:

A pair of affable hillbillies hunted through the woods by a group of psychotic college student makes for a horror story like no other...

A carload of teenagers are out on vacation – cabin in the woods, beer, skinny-dipping; all the usual hi-jinks. What could go wrong?

What separates this from a thousand other horror films is that the West Virginians are not murdering, rampaging cannibals. Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler Labine) have just bought a ‘fixer-upper’ cabin in the woods and the only thing on their minds is a vacation of drinking and fishing.

Unfortunately, a misunderstanding occurs and the teenagers believe that one of them, Allison (Katrina Bowden), has been kidnapped, and that Tucker and Dale are looking to pick them off one by one. What the teens seem incapable of spotting is that they’re doing a pretty good job of that themselves. And the harder Tucker and Dale protest that they’re not out for blood, the quicker the kids keep dying...

Fans of Alan Tudyk will know him well from Firefly and Serenity, and he puts in another fine performance here. Jesse Moss also does a wonderful turn as Chad, the good-looking natural leader of the group, with a pre-existing grudge against all hillbillies.

A lot of the humour is based upon how the students keep accidently killing themselves, but there are also clever references to other films. Full of black comedy moments and ironic humour, this is the best comedy you’ve never heard of!

Natalie Tyldesley