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| Topic | Board 8 Ranks 2010s Horror Movies - The Final Chapter - *THE RANKINGS* |
| Snake5555555555 05/25/22 1:16:17 PM #21: | Lightning Strikes - Oh hidy-ho, officer, weve had a real doozy of a day. I had heard of Tucker and Dale vs. Evil when it came out and assumed that it was going to be in the Shaun of the Dead or Slither vein of horror comedy. I knew nothing about the tone or premise other than that it was a horror comedy with hillbillies. I have to say, Im not a major spoilerphobe but I am so glad I went in knowing almost nothing as what a delightful surprise this film was. The central gag of this film is frankly ingenious - a group of teens who think they are in a hillbilly slasher movie, but actually the hillbillies are lovely and theyre just getting themselves killed by accident. This enables some terrific comedy, you know fairly early on that all of them except the female lead will die, but the way if happens is consistently hilarious. In particular the woodchipper death was fantastic, even though its obvious what is going to happen the timing and physical acting of it had me howling with laughter. This is a really funny film, and much more to the comedy end than the horror end. It even has a solid message behind it and some touching scenes. Unfortunately, the films last act is not as effective as the rest. The film stops being a parody of the idea of a psycho hillbilly horror film and just becomes a straight example of that. Until then I was thinking of this as one of the best horror comedies ever but that brought it down, the movie should have ended after the cabin explodes. Despite all that, it is still a very, very good comedy that stays funny the whole way through. 4/5 Biggest scare: Not really scary but the first death is a nice gruesome, shocking, and hilarious moment that sets the tone for the rest. Suprak - B Im a sucker for a good horror comedy, and I was kind of hoping this wouldnt be one. Nothing against the movie itself but there is at least one other horror comedy on this list that Im a pretty big fan of and I didnt want the top end of my list dominated by the subgenre. But Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil does a nice job lampooning the slasher genre and does a nice job giving you pretty consistent laughs along the way. It is pretty obvious what theyre going for right away here, but that doesnt make it any less funny when a dumb college kid literally throws themselves into a woodchipper and an exasperated Dale (or Tucker?) has to try and pull them out. I feel like this was a movie specifically designed for horror fans, and its just a fun watch all the way through. I do think it is perhaps a bit more one note than some of the other horror/comedies on the list. You basically have a comedy of errors here, where you have some sort of misunderstanding that makes the hillbillies look scary, then the teenagers do something dumb, and then they wind up dying. The movie relies a lot on this joke, and while it is a funny joke at the start I do feel like maybe there is some diminishing returns along the way as the same joke gets repeated. And I thought the twist to the movie was going to be more clever than what it was. You have that weird shed they found, a supposed massacre twenty years ago, and all these kids dying in increasingly implausible ways. So I thought the big reveal was the woods had some sort of curse on it that was causing these things to happen or something along those lines. The bad guy is half hillbilly himself didnt really feel like much of a twist or in line with the central conceit of the film. Not that it makes it a bad movie, but it does make the ending a bit more muddled than it needed to be and it felt like the jokes kind of tapered off near the end. Still, these are relatively minor complaints though and I thought it was thoroughly entertaining. It probably succeeds more as a comedy movie than a horror movie, but I never really got the impression it was really going for genuine horror here. Tudyk and other guy who isnt Tudyk do a great job carrying the comedy in the movie, and they do a surprisingly subtle job with a lot of their delivery that really works quite well. Lines like oh no his bowling fingers! have no business being as funny as they are and there is a good script combined with good delivery that helps elevate the comedy. And there is a good, cohesive narrative under it all which is something that tends to get lost when youre working with parodies. It might not be my absolute favorite example of horror/comedy, but it is still very enjoyable. Jcgamer107 - I might owe this one a rewatch at this point, but from what I recall its a very funny parody, 100% suited to Alan Tudyk. The set-ups for the teen deaths are so over-the-top & hilarious - just a good blend of comedy & horror. PrinceKaro - Two dumbass hillbillies end up camping in the deep woods with a group of dumbass college kids, and thanks to some really bad misunderstandings and a complete lack of basic motor skills, a lot of people end up dead. The premise of the movie starts to wear thin halfway through, as the story has its joints painfully dislocated again and again in order to preserve the farce that keeps these two groups at each others throats. There are a few memorable lines of dialogue, but other than that there is not a whole lot going for this film. I feel there was potential do something with the slasher role reversal concept, but in the end we have just another murderous maniac chasing after people in the woods and we are right back to square one. It's just dumb. Dumb and repetitive. If you've seen one scene youve basically seen the entire movie. They literally just keep throwing out the same joke over and over for an hour and a half and expect people to keep on laughing. I'm sorry, but an entire movie of rednecks are dumb/young people are dumb gags does not 'git er done' for me. FFDragon - Horror-comedy is usually my jam, but this one missed more than not. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. https://www.instagram.com/horror_obscurities/ ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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