Tucker and Dale vs. Evil [DVD] (2011)

A real romp and great fun movie.

Hilarious and heartwarming which is not something i ever thought id say about a horror comedy film.

I absolutely loved this very dark comedy and I found it even better than "Shaun of the dead". Below you will find more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS included.Tucker and Dale are uneducated but very likeable, hard working blue-collar people living in a backward area of West Virginia. Best friends since always and best friends forever, they are nevertheless very different - Tucker is more assuming, better spoken, more handsome (or less ugly if you prefer) and somehow more succesful, when Dale is shy, complexed, overweight and in his own opinion a total loser.The story begins the day when the two friends decide to go on holidays, to work on a "vacation home" Tucker just bought, which is situated in the wild woods, near a lake. The "vacation home" is in fact an abandoned, dilapidated ruin filled with old junk and surrounded on every side by a vegetation gone completely mad ("Well, what? It is a fixer-upper!").But Tucker and Dale never feared hard work and they are very enthusiastic about the task which awaits them - and they also expect to spend some really good time drinking beer, fishing, drinking beer, playing board games and, of course, drinking even more beer. Even their meeting on the road with a somehow creepy old sheriff who warns them not to go to the lake will not deter them... After all, they have Dale's old, ugly, drooling bulldog Jangers with them to warn them about any dangers.But there is also a second group of people who came to spend some summer time on the other shore of the lake - they are college students, six guys and three gorgeous girls. One girl in particular will play an important role - her name is Allison (Katrina Bowden) and she is an incredibly beautiful and sexy creature (think about young Denise Richards and you will have an idea). The college kids are there to smoke weed, drink beer, swim naked, drink beer, tell scary stories around a fire, drink beer, possibly have some sex, drink beer, smoke more weed, drink more beer, etc.And then, as it is this kind of film, there is also, unavoidably, EVIL, which in this film comes mostly from misunderstandings, coincidences, prejudices, accidents and pure idiocy, but is greatly amplified by (initially discreet but slowly growing) insanity affecting one of the characters.The confrontation between the two likeable hillbillies, the nine college kids and the EVIL produces a wonderful, albeit by moments very gory and pretty cruel comedy. This film is so filled with incredible dialogs, memorable one-liners, great slap-stick scenes and other delights, that at the end I could hardly believe that it lasted only 85 minutes! And from the first minutes to the very end I laughed so hard that tears were flowing from my eyes and my ribs were hurting. I was laughing like a hysterically drunk hyena who is fighting madness and loosing - in fact at one moment my wife and daughters panicked and came running to check on me because they thought I was dying!Although it is not absolutely necessary to enjoy this film, it can be useful to remind yourself the (in)famous "Deliverance" movie. If you never saw it, try at least to read the synopsis and try to find on the web THE scene from the film, the one with Ned Beatty and the two hillbillies... You may also want to rewatch the first of "Friday the 13th" films and have at least a look at the trailer of the original "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" from 1974 (or even better, watch the first 30 minutes of it). But once again, those things are not absolutely necessary.I loved this film, I am very happy that I bought it and this DVD is definitely a keeper. Enjoy!

The actors are great, good story line, brillent and funny, recommend this film too everyone, if you like comedy's horror's this is the one to watch...😜

A group of college kids head out into the woods for a weekend of tomfoolery at the same time good-hearted hillbillies Tucker and Dale take possession of their new holiday shack. When Tucker and Dale rescue one of the college girls after she injures herself, her friends think she's been abducted. Misunderstandings escalate out of control, until both groups believe they're being hunted by psychopaths and resolve to defend themselves no matter what.Comedy movies which riff off horror themes have been around for a while now, starting with the magnificent Evil Dead movies in the 1980s, continuing with the likes of Scream and Shaun of the Dead, and recently resurging thanks to the excellent Cabin in the Woods. Tucker and Dales Versus Evil is a fine addition to this pantheon of movies which seek to scare and amuse at the same time.This is a quite clever movie which invokes almost ever single trope on the horror table: a bunch of teenage kids out in the woods drinking alcohol and taking drugs, chainsaws, people being picked off one-by-one, buildings burning down and a final confrontation in a sawmill. What makes the movie work so brilliantly is that the whole thing kicks off due to misunderstandings and the belief of the characters in what will happen based on their own exposure to horror movies. In fact, you could re-edit the movie to take place entirely from either Tucker and Dale's POV or that of the kids and you'd entirely get where each side is coming from.That said, the movie doesn't hold an entirely unbiased view of what's going on: our sympathies are firmly with Tucker and Dale throughout the picture. Alan Tudyk (Firefly) plays Tucker, the somewhat more savvy of the two hillbillies (or so it first appears), with his usual brilliant comic timing but the heart of the picture belongs to Tyler Labine (Reaper) as Dale, whose early dumb schtick masks a much smarter and more resourceful person. One of the underlying premises of the movie is that Dale is trying to woo college girl Allison (a sympathetic performance by Katrina Bowden) which initially seems ridiculous but the actors actually sell the idea they might be just about right for one another. These kind of relationships are usually contrived in both horror and comedy films, but this one works just fine.The college kids are less sympathetic, bringing about most of their stupidity and ludicrously gory deaths on themselves. Debut director Eli Craig seems to take glee in working out how each one is going to meet their end and then outdoes himself with the next one (although the woodchipper scene remains the most memorable death in the movie).So the film is well-played, hilarious and takes a wry, smart look at the tropes of horror movies that pays homage to them (even fellow horror-comedies, as The Evil Dead 2 gets several shout-outs). The film does have two, relatively minor, weaknesses. First is that it is a little too quick to cut to the chase. Based on the effectively frantic pacing, the movie should really be over at around the 70 minute mark and the team then have to drag out the finale to get the film up to feature length. Perhaps a little more scene-setting at the start and making the college kids more interesting and sympathetic would have helped the audience care more when they start expiring.Secondly, the film doesn't entirely have the courage of its convictions and ultimately drops in a real murderous killer into the story. I agree that it would be tough to let the carnage keep playing out as the result of a case of mistaken identity (although they do manage it for more than half of the movie), but it would have been interesting to see them try. Having a real bad guy in the film does kind of feel like it's going against its own premise.Tucker and Dale Versus Evil (****) is spectacularly gory, extremely funny and cleverer than it first appears, but can't quite maintain the brilliance of its first half all the way to the end. But it's still an outrageously entertaining slice of horror-comedy.

One of the best films I've ever seen

Ok, its a bit Old Now.But really, you gotta watch this!! It is the ultimate in Comedy/Horror.It has good actors, well produced and Directed ,not a low budget, camcorder thingy!!I have watched this about 3 times now and I laugh my head off every time because I see things I missed the first time round.A Master Piece of Comedy/ Horror !!!

Wasn't sure about this when I got it, but it's a hilarious horror comedy. 🤣

Ordered this product not expecting much from it, but it actually was really wonderful. I would recommend it to anybody.

One of the best horror comedies ever. Steelbook looks great too.

Excelente. Entretenida :DSolo viene subtitulada en español.

Ce film est de plus en plus difficile à trouver dans les commerces, par chance j'ai pu le trouver en DVD.Ce film est entre un mélange de comédie et d'horreur qui vous fera rire.

Det var väldigt dåligt att det inte fanns varken engelsk eller svensk text,det stod ingenting om vilka undertexter som fanns så det var dåligt att det inte stod innan jag beställde den.