Movie Notes: 'Tucker and Dale vs Evil' (2011) hilariously wins

Tucker and Dale vs Evil is a perfect parody for all those cabin in the woods serial killer movies. It has all the cliches of a slasher film from the old cabin in the woods, a group of campers and hillbillies. 

Tucker (Tyler Labine) and Dale (Alan Tudyk) are on their way to their newly purchased cabin in the woods. They come across a group of teenage campers in an aptly named gasoline station "Last Chance Gas". Their encounter didn't go out so well as the teenage campers were creep out by them because of being hillbillies.

They come across each other again while the group went skinny dipping and Allison (Katrina Bowden) slipped in a rock after being startled. Tucker and Dale rescues her but the other campers thinks they are drowning her and are murderous hillbillies out to get them one by one.

They would soon go on offensive and in the process accidentally gets killed one by one.

Despite the comedic theme, it didn't shy away from the gory stuff with every death getting bloodier and funnier at the same time. It is clearly a satire on the cliches or slasher films set in secluded cabins in the woods much like Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland on Zombie Apocalypse. 

Case in point, it set in the remote forest of West Virginia (hello, Wrong Turn), we have Hillbilly murderers (Texas Chainsaw here), the sheriff dies just when he is about to save the victims and a group of teenagers killed one by one (every slasher movie) with stereotypical profiles such as the bimbo slut, the nerd, the black guy, the virgin and brave hero.

What makes this so nice is it can make you scared one second and immediately make you laugh after. It is both cute and with a certain level of danger and gore. The first time I saw this I thought it was a very clever film because it didn't go overboard with the jokes to a point that everything seemed ludicrous. That made it so funny and at the same time believable that it is possible to happen.

This is one of the few good films under the slapstick comedy/horror genre which is pretty difficult to pull off since there is a thin line between just right and being outright ridiculous.

The important lesson with this movie is to never judge people and not to be stupid to accidentally kill yourself in the process.

I give it a rating of 3 out of 5 and listing it as a GOOD Movie.