Tucker and Dale vs. Evil – Horror Movie

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010) was directed by Eli Craig. Written by Eli Craig and Morgan Jurgenson.  Starring Tyler Labine (Reaper), Alan Tudyk (Firefly), Katrina Bowden, and Jesse Moss (The Uninvited, Ginger Snaps, Final Destination 3).

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.

Ever want to know what a reverse of a horror film would be like. The most hilarious as hell comedy horror to have been ever created. There are amazing accidentally comedy horrors out there like Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 which were meant to be serious with hints of comedy that turned almost all comedy and then there is this masterpiece.

Tucker and Dale are two rednecks that are finally getting some time to go out to their “fishing cabin” and get a vacation. On the way to their cabin they stop at a gas station, in which also a group of suburbanite teenagers also have stopped at. Dale develops an instant connection to Allison, but it appears to be mostly one-sided. The teenage girls offer their disdain to their male co-campers about the “hill-billies” that was staring at them.

From this point it is seriously one confused mixed-up step after another to create the ultimate laugh that is well deserved. After Tucker and Dale go fishing at night, they are caught watching Allison change and as she jumps into the same lake, she hits her head and almost drowns. The teenagers only see Tucker and Dale pulling what appears to be her lifeless body into their boat and drive off.

The teenagers then one by one accidentally as they are attempting to get Allison’s body back, kill themselves. But with each death, Tucker and Dale attempt to stop them only making it look more and more like they were the ones killing the kids.

Soon the police get involved and even that doesn’t go right. All the while Tucker and Dale unwittingly try to help prevent the deaths of everyone. Finally one of the teens displays a vicious nature (you learn that he is “part hill-billy”) in which he wants to kill Allison, Tucker, and Dale.   There is final battle that ensues in a lumberyard, the graphics, practical and CG are beautifully done. The story is brilliant and the acting is incredibly masterful. Not only are you able to relate to the characters, but you root for Dale, Tucker, his dog, and Allison to win out.

Cabin in the woods, dark humor, hillbilly rednecks, guns, wood-chippers, gore, unintentional violence, and well deserved beers; this movie was so well done that a sequel is not required but desperately wanted.

I give this film 9.5 “well deserved beers” because it should have only the finest.

Teeth – Horror Movie

Teeth (2007) was written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. Starring Jess Weixler (nothing), John Hensley (Shutter, Hostel part III), and Josh Pais (also nothing).

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.

I don’t know what to say about this. It’s really a movie about rape and how when a woman says no it means no. The basic plot is Dawn is a good girl and goes to a school that has an abstinence class. She is president of this class and meets a boy that she wants to have relations with but only after she marries. She goes out on a date with him and he tries to rape her. She happens to have sentient teeth in her vagina that respond to her panicking. Dawn’s vagina eats the dicks/fingers/hands off of men that violate her. (Every rape victims dream.)

The movie attempts to give a girl a power to take away the pain of being a victim and then uses it to switch the story around so that she is the perpetrator instead. I feel like this movie didn’t hit the comedic points that it could and it stressed too much that a woman can use her sexuality as a weapon. I personally didn’t like this film, though it was meant to make women feel powerful, it felt stupid and childish(despite all the sex).

I give this film 2 false teeth out of 10. It just didn’t do it for me.