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Tucker and Dale are two best friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house, who are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students gets separated from her friends, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count.
Director Eli Craig’s cult black comedy dissembling of classic slasher tropes manages to hit all the highs of the genre while skewering it at every twist and turn. Helped along the way by magisterial performances from Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine, TUCKER & DALE is the ultimate backwoods bromance horror fans never knew they needed.
“Here's something you don't see every day: a genial, politically correct splatter comedy.” —Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader “What if all the blood and guts, all the decapitations and mutilated limbs, were just the result of an enormous misunderstanding - where a lack of communication leads to (horribly fun) disaster?....TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL hits nearly every mark that it aims for — though it delivers significantly more comedy than horror — and plays on iconic slasher film staples as well as expectations to great effect.” —Ben Kendrick, Screen Rant
