Tucker and Dale vs. Evil is a horror/comedy that lives up to both genre labels, but is more heavy on the comedy than the horror. You're not going to be scared, but you are going to laugh.
The story is as follows: two backwoods country guys (Tucker and Dale) are taking a trip to fix up and renovate a vacation cabin that Tucker has just bought. While Tucker and Dale are fixing up the cabin, they encounter some stereotypical dimwitted teenagers common to the horror genre. Quickly, Tucker, Dale, and the teenagers find themselves in a situation wherein the line between who is good and evil is blurry at best. Tucker and Dale think the teenagers are out to get them and at the same time the teenagers think the same about Tucker and Dale. There's a kidnapping, people start dying in gruesome, but creative and hilarious ways. The movie basically rests on a HUGE misunderstanding due to a lack of communication.
As I said at the beginning, this movie is classified as a horror/comedy. However, the only thing about this movie that strikes me as being "horror" is that there is a lot blood, guts, gore, and death. I suppose that could qualify as horror, but the story that is being told throughout the movie quickly dilutes any elements of "fear" or "scary-factor." If you wanted to count the fear of dying as consistent with the "fear" representative of the horror genre, then this movie is within its classification.
I recommend this movie primarily because of the story and its hilarity, not necessarily because its scary in any meaningful sense. There isn't great acting either; however, there are enough characters representing enough personalities that you get a little bit of everything in the way of character development, but don't expect anything deep. So, if you like exaggerated gore and decent effects that are expected from a horror film and idiocy from characters and if you have an hour and a half to kill one day, then give this movie a shot.
It is currently available on Netflix as of 1/25/2016.
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