Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
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| Directed by | Eli Craig |
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| Story by | Eli Craig |
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| Cinematography | David Geddes |
| Edited by | Bridget Durnford |
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| Distributed by | Magnet Releasing |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $4.7 million |
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil is a 2010 Canadian-American comedy horror film written by Eli Craig and Morgan Jurgenson, directed by Eli Craig, and starring Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss, and Chelan Simmons. Tudyk and Labine play a pair of well-meaning hillbillies who are mistaken for killers by a group of clueless college students.
The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and received a limited release in the United States. It has an 84% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes and a 65/100 rating on Metacritic.
College students Allison, Chad, Chloe, Chuck, Jason, Naomi, Todd, Mitch and Mike are going camping in West Virginia. While at a gas station, they encounter Tucker and Dale, two well-meaning hillbillies who have just bought the vacation home of their dreams: a run-down lakefront cabin, deep in the woods. On Tucker's advice, Dale tries to talk to Allison, but because of his inferiority complex and appearance, he only scares her and her friends.
Tucker and Dale arrive at their decrepit cabin and begin repairing it. Nearby in the woods, Chad tells a story about the "Memorial Day Massacre", a hillbilly attack which took place 20 years ago. The college kids go skinny-dipping where Tucker and Dale are fishing, and Allison, startled, hits her head. Tucker and Dale save her, but her friends think she was kidnapped. When Allison wakes up in Tucker and Dale's cabin the next day, she is initially scared but befriends the two hillbillies. The other college kids arrive at the cabin to save Allison from her "psychopathic captors", and Chuck runs away to get the police. While Dale and Allison are inside the cabin, Tucker angers some bees and frantically waves around his chainsaw, which the college kids misinterpret as hostility. They scatter through the woods, and Mitch accidentally impales himself on a broken tree. After finding Mitch's body, Chad persuades the others that they are in a battle for survival.
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