Tucker and Dale vs Evil

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Movie
German title Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Original title Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Eli Craig
script Morgan Jurgenson,
Eli Craig
music Michael Shields,
Andrew Kaiser
camera David Geddes
cut Bridget Durnford
occupation

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil is a Canadian comedy by Eli Craig from 2010 . The feature film mainly parodies splatter and slasher films , successful sub-genres of horror films .

action

On their way to camping in a remote forest region in the Appalachian Mountains, a group of nine college students meets the two slightly neglected locals Dale and Tucker, who make a threatening impression on the prejudiced city dwellers. In fact, Dale and Tucker are good-natured handyman who just want to renovate and vacation their recently acquired, shabby vacation cabin. When the two of them meet the group again while fishing on a forest lake at night, they save the pretty Allison, who has an accident while trying to get into the water from a rock. Her friends, who cannot see exactly what happened in the dark, believe that Allison was kidnapped by the two and flee.

Allison wakes up in their hut and soon realizes that she doesn't have to be afraid of them. Her friends, on the other hand, try, spurred on by the fanatical Chad, to forcibly free Allison from the hands of the supposed kidnappers. A chain of unfortunate circumstances results in one clumsy student after another dying without Dale or Tucker's assistance, while the survivors become increasingly convinced that they are dealing with unscrupulous murderers. After further bloody incidents, Allison manages to bring Chad as well as Tucker and Dale to the table in order to clear up the fatal misunderstanding. But the situation escalates again and the hut goes up in flames. Chad, who survived with severe burns, goes mad and now kidnaps Allison in a sawmill to lure Dale and Tucker into a trap. In the duel against Chad, Dale wins and can free Allison. Chad falls out of a window and has a supposedly fatal accident. It appears Allison is the only survivor of the student group.

At the end it is shown that Dale has a date with Allison, during which the two kiss. It remains to be seen whether the two of them will develop a relationship. So it looks like a happy ending.

When looking at the opening scene of the film, however, this is no longer entirely certain. A short scene shows how things continue after the showdown in the sawmill. A reporter enters the sawmill with a cameraman at night to find traces of what has happened. Both are knocked down by an initially invisible person. The person takes the camera and films himself for a brief moment - it is Chad, who apparently survived the argument with Dale. In addition, it is implied several times that Chad is the son of the " Memorial Day killer" mentioned in flashbacks .

publication

The film premiered in January 2010 at the Sundance Film Festival . On August 21 of the same year there was the German premiere at the Fantasy Film Festival in Berlin. In cooperation with the horror convention Weekend Of Horrors , the film was shown once in the cinema in November 2010. The film was released in German cinemas on February 10, 2011.

reception

Michael Kohler from the Frankfurter Rundschau recognizes in the "amusing [n] splatter parody [a] parable of the dangers that can result from the meeting of cultural misunderstandings and poor communication". The Cinema reviewer comes to a similar conclusion. With the film "debut director Eli Craig joins this bloody canon of fun and brilliantly turns the sub-genre of the backwoodslashers upside down". Andreas Staben also sees “a loving game with genre mechanisms” and judges: “In his lovingly staged and cleverly constructed splatter comedy, [Craig] combines postmodern parody with a hearty homage - and his protagonist duo, who have polished up the battered reputation of the hillbillies real cult potential. "

Daniel Sander from Spiegel Online says: “'Tucker & Dale vs. Evil 'may turn genre conventions around when the film declares the designated villains to be helpless victims. But the result remains the same: chopped, pierced and grilled students. The much bigger difference from most horror films today is the strange warmth that shows through the carnage. The blood flows and the intestines splatter in full splatter glory, but without the cold cynicism and hollow voyeurism that the ' Saw ' films in particular have cultivated. "

The film service writes: "From prejudices and communication mishaps, the film develops a thoroughly funny, but also drastic genre parody, which cleverly brushes its role models against the grain and shines with a friendly comedian couple in the lead roles."

The film was nominated for Best Horror Film at the Home Media Magazine Awards in 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Tucker and Dale vs Evil . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 788 K).
  2. ↑ Publication. In: Internet Movie Database. Retrieved May 26, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Michael Kohler: Jump into the chopper. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. February 10, 2011, accessed May 26, 2012 .
  4. ^ Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. In: cinema.de. Retrieved May 26, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Andreas Staben: Tucker and Dale vs Evil. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved May 26, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Daniel Sander: Rendezvous with the shredding machine. In: Spiegel Online. February 10, 2011, accessed May 26, 2012 .
  7. ^ Tucker and Dale vs Evil. In: Filmdienst. Retrieved May 26, 2012 .
  8. ^ Vote for the 2012 Home Media Magazine Awards. In: dreadcentral.com