When working in a certain genre, whether that’s western, crime thriller or rom com, the challenge for the film makers is balancing the need to stick to the conventions of the genre and also expanding its parameters, breaking its guidelines and subverting its rules. Tucker & Dale Vs Evil nicely subverts the horror sub-genre of Redneck Killer (for want of a better phrase) like Wrong Turn and Texas Chainsaw. So you’ve got your familiar bunch of obnoxious city dwelling teens who are camping out in the woods and then you’ve got your simple, sheltered-from-modern-life country rednecks, complete with creepy shack, chainsaws and machetes and the starts with your allegiances set to cheer for the teens, but it soon turns out both the kids, and us the audience, have got the wrong idea about the weird local folk.
Although in no way scary, it’s a fun, fairly amusing comedy horror with liberal amounts of gore and an appealing cast, especially the cute Katrina Bowden (from TV’s 30 Rock) and Alan Tudyk of Firefly fame.
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