[TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL screens Friday February 12th at 7, 9, and 11:00 pm at the Case Western Reserve University Strosacker Auditorium.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
There's
a long tradition of horror films pitting naïve city slickers against
stereotypical backwoods psychopaths. I suppose that's because
hillbillies are one of the few groups it's still acceptable to pick on
in these politically correct times. Finally, with TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL, we get a horror comedy that shows rednecks in a positive light.
Tucker
(Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler Labine) have just realized their dream of
buying a vacation cabin in the woods where they can go fishing, drink a
few beers, and just generally hang out and be guys. The place is a
fixer-upper, though, and the previous occupants must have had the same
decorator as the family in THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. So the boys head out to do some work, bringing along an assortment of chain saws, axes, and even a wood chipper.
