Last night, as my first official SIFF excursion, I saw Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil at the Neptune. It was a great way to start a film festival.
Though it has all the trappings of a horror film—buckets of gore, the occasional tense moment—Tucker is more or less a comedy of manners. Two hillbillies try to renovate a vacation home in the wilderness and, through a series of increasingly bizarre miscommunications, a group of college kids gone camping on spring break believe that the hillbillies are trying to murder them.
Tucker walks a very fine line; if at any point the momentum of the film were to wane, the whole thing would collapse. Thankfully, the actors playing the titular hillbillies know exactly what to do with the material. The ever-adorable Alan Tudyk sells the script with a surprising intensity, and Tyler Labine’s hick-savant sincerity is charming. The film is thankfully brief—the only wasted moments are in a dumb, formulaic opening sequence—and it knows how to drop an idea when it’s spent.
Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil plays tonight at midnight at the Egyptian. You should go.
You SHOULD go. I was in the audience last night, as well, and Tucker & Dale vs. Evil had my friends and I giggling over our cocktails for the rest of the evening.
I also saw it last night. It was great and it was also great that the director, cinematographer and one of the stars (Tyler Labine) was there as well.
I saw it tonight and it was AMAZING. Best horror spoof since Shaun of the Dead, IMO.
probably the most hilarious and heartwarming midnight adrenaline entry I’ve ever seen at SIFF!
I can’t wait for this to go national! The youtube trailer that was released a while ago, back when they were asking for donations to finish the movie, had everyone I showed it to laughing like crazy. This is going to be a huge hit.
Probably my favorite midnite movie, dethroning Dead Sno from last year
that must mean that you haven’t seen any since Dead Sno, because that movie kind of sucked