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Nightmare Fuel / Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

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  • Mitch's death via tree branch, while initially funny, becomes quite disturbing for some.
  • With all the references to rape and brutal murder sequences, the flashbacks showing the Memorial Day Massacre are rather out of place in such a light-hearted film, feeling more like one of Wes Craven's early works, The Last House on the Left or The Hills Have Eyes (1977).
  • Chad. Make no mistake, he's the "Evil" the title refers to, being a twisted parody of the typical slasher movie hero. Far from morally upstanding or even relatively good, he's not so much incompetent as his clumsy-ass friends as he is flat-out unhinged. He leads a charge against Tucker and Dale, and while it's mostly due to his paranoia, the cracks in his psyche start to show when he intimidates his friends into attempting murder, holds a dog hostage, tries to burn the hillbillies after they try to talk things out and sexually assaults Allison.
    Jason: That's fucked up.

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