A pair of friendly hillbillies trying to enjoy a weekend at a cabin by a lake in the woods get mistaken for savage killers by vacationing college students in the one-joke horror spoof “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.”
One of the yokels (Tyler Labine plays Dale; Alan Tudyk, his buddy) gets attacked by bees while working with a chain saw and runs away with the chain saw still going, causing a panicky student to flee and get himself impaled on a tree branch. Variations on this one situation keep the bodies piling up in highly silly and extremely bloody ways. Put it like this: When Tucker gets out the wood chipper, you won’t have to wait too long to see it put to good use.
The amiability and goodwill of the rednecks (in what eventually amounts to an inverted “Straw Dogs” or “Deliverance”) is a refreshing element, and watching easily spooked collegians receive severe chastisement by the fates is not without its amusement value. But this is essentially a student film offering nothing but absurdly contrived coincidence.