"Evil, accidentally found"

Title: Tucker and Dale vs Evil

Year: 2010
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Director: Eli Craig
Writer: Eli Craig, Morgan Jurgenson
Runtime: 89min
Cast: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden
Produc.: Reliance Big Pictures, Loubyloo Productions, Eden Rock Media, Gynormous Pictures, Kintop Pictures, Urban Island, Alberta Film Development Program of the Alberta Government, National Bank of Canada TV and Motion Picture Group, T&D Productions

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil begins when two friends, Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler Labine), who live in a mountainous area of the United States, decide to spend their vacation in a cabin they have in Virginia. From that point the will meet a group of teenagers, who, led by a big misunderstanding, eventually will be taking these vacationers by psychopaths.

This is a movie that brings together elements of both horror and comedy, mixing them smart and funnily in a kind of "hybrid" of both genders. Even, and for the taste of the ladies, it has its romantic touches.

All the confusion begins when Allison (Katrina Bowden) accidentally falls into a stream, beating his head against a rock, and when about to sink, unconscious; she is rescued by Dale and Tucker, who board a boat. However, one of the friends of Allison for seeing the rescuers from too far quickly turns them into criminals. Thus, this group of dumb teenagers begins a battle to free their supposedly poor and defenseless friend from the hands of the two also alleged murderers.

I think the most notable thing to mention is how the filmmakers managed to create different situations without being terrifying in the least, managing to parody the horror genre, but still, therefore, to give us moments of great morbidity. In one scene, for example, we see one of the teenagers being quartered… But who would have thought that it would be funny rather than dramatic to see him die. And in another, one of the guys is apparently being chased by a lunatic with a chainsaw, in the style of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by Tobe Hooper.

So the blood here is in abundance, for the consumer tastes of the macabre. But at no time the director takes seriously what is going on, and one after another, wacky situations keep on coming, until they reach the final climax.

Perhaps arguably the weakest moments are the last 10 or 15 minutes, where as the writers did not know how to finish the story, they decided to turn to more practical items, without any kind of twist. However, the small but recognizable flaws in its third act are not strong enough to overshadow the rest of the footage.

My rating: 6/10

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