A group of
typical college students are on their way through the isolated West Virginian
wilderness when they come across a couple of Red Necks. Afraid, they scarper
and set up camp near a lake. The Red Necks, Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler
Labine) have recently bought an old cabin and are in the area to do some
fishing and maintenance. That night the kids go skinny dipping and one of them (Katrina
Bowden) falls in banging her head. Dale and Tucker come to her rescue and pull
her aboard their boat. The other kids see this and believe she is being kidnapped
and formulate a plan to get her back and enact their revenge.
The film is
a nice twist and reverse of the classic kids in the woods surrounded by hillbillies
film but is unfortunately usurped in its originality by The Cabin in the Woods. The idea itself is clever and interesting,
it’s nice to have a look at the oftold story from the hillbilly perspective but
after forty minutes I’d had enough. I laughed a couple of times in the opening
minutes but overall found the film unfunny and boring. After the opening twist
there is little else of interest and the plot becomes predictable and dull.
The film is
a nice twist and reverse of the classic kids in the woods surrounded by hillbillies
film but is unfortunately usurped in its originality by The Cabin in the Woods. The idea itself is clever and interesting,
it’s nice to have a look at the oftold story from the hillbilly perspective but
after forty minutes I’d had enough. I laughed a couple of times in the opening
minutes but overall found the film unfunny and boring. After the opening twist
there is little else of interest and the plot becomes predictable and dull.