Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
He's pretty heavy for half a guy.
Looks can be deceiving. Tucker and Dale have the worst bit of luck you could ever imagine. Dale saves a pretty chick from drowning while the two are fishing and her entourage, a group of preppy college kids out camping in the woods near their "fix-er-upper" cabin, believe Tucker and Dale are a couple of psycho redneck killers having kidnapped their friend. While trying to save her, these kids die inadvertently through some of the most unfortunate mishaps one could think of. I mean, how does one leap accidentally into a woodchipper, for crying out loud?!?! This takes the slasher hillybilly genre and turns it on its head and plays around with perception and how prejudices and the wrong ideas about people can spiral out of control leading to a lot of violent, bloody death.
Oh, my God, they cut off his bowling fingers!
I should have known that if a guy like me talked to a girl like you somebody'd end up dead.
You've gone Hillbilly on me, Allison.
Jeff, the "head of the pack", if you will, is the most nutso of the movie, a total lunatic who actually spurns his peeps into action, leading them into their own unpredictably mistake-laden demise. His parents and their friends were massacred by forest-dwelling hicks so he just assumed that Tucker and Dale were of the same breed of scum. The scene were several of the remaining survivors find the local sheriff, and he catches Tucker and Dale with the legs attached to a lower torso, after it was pulled from the woodchipper as they attempt to explain, is a thing of beauty.
That girl has got an amazing set...of bowling fingers.
How could a case of misunderstanding get so out of hand? Just check this movie out and you will see. And what even makes this even funnier is that Tucker and Dale are wondering why these kids are "killing themselves", believing, even, that they may be a part of some suicide pact!
Looks like he's gonna walk it off.
How the sheriff gets it thanks to a loose board with nails protruding just illustrates how every character associated with the group of kids, in particular Allison, become casualties of errors in judgment, mistimed actions, and just plain bad clumsiness. The sweetening of the pot is that Tucker and Dale couldn't be two nicer, more pleasant, harmless guys, just seen from different points of view (and shown from the kids' perspective, we might can see why they would consider the duo dangerous and scary such as when Dale wants to speak to Allison, carrying a scythe in his hand, or Tucker swatting at bees with his chainsaw, frightening one poor kid into impaling himself on a tree).
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