Sadly, this doesn't involve a magical farce a la William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." I am instead talking about Tucker and Dale versus Evil, an amusing yet painfully gory comedy of errors. The titular Dale and Tucker are rednecks, and this films is a sendup of the hillbilly subgenre of horror typified by "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Wrong Turn" or even the infamous John Boorman opus, "Deliverance". Rob Zombie took it to fresh new extremes with "House of 1,000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects".
The film's mayhem stems from prejudices and misconceptions when a group of dippy college kids decide to go camping and come across Dale and Tucker, whom they mistake for killer hillbillies. An impossible redneck/hot coed romance subplot develops as a slapstick bodycount begins building.
The film isn't greatly acted or written, but it's amusing and I appreciate it as a send-up the aforementioned sub-genre. Watch for Jesse Moss's performance as "Chad", the preppy alpha boy who breaks down and discovers some Root Rust in his family tree....
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