💀EmperorCupcake🧁’s review published on Letterboxd:
"What's wrong with you kids?"
So imagine a couple perfectly nice if a bit... rustic guys decide to buy Leatherface's old place for a vacation retreat, and assume the bone furniture is some neato arts and crafts project or something. Enter the typical carload of annoying college kids off to party in the woods or whatever. At least one of them is named Chad, obviously, but I think they might all be named Chad. Even the girls. The Chadettes. In most slashers they'd be the main characters, and we'd watch them get picked off one by one and not give a crap. They see our real main characters, Tucker and Dale, drive by in a pickup and assume they're creepy hillbillies. Part of what made this movie so funny was the genuine terror these kids had of these innocent guys, probably because they've seen too many horror movies.
This takes every trope and subverts it hilariously. You see the movie from both sides and it makes total sense. The kids are terrified of the chainsaw-wielding guy in overalls, and the chainsaw-wielding guy is just confused and covered in bees. And one of the girls, we'll call her not-Kaley Cuoco, turns out to be really nice and not a Chadette after all. Chad is played by the drug dealer from Ginger Snaps, and he has not aged at all in 10 years. Weird, I didn't even realize it was him.
This was made by Eli Craig, who also made Little Evil, a film I seemed to like more than the majority of... everybody. It wasn't as funny as Tucker and Dale, but this was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Really bloody too. This could have been incredibly stupid, but it turned out to be one of the smartest takes on a horror subgenre I've seen.
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