5) Tucker And Dale vs. Evil
The hillbillies strike back in this horror-comedy about two perfectly nice guys hanging out in a creepy cabin in the woods. When a group of yuppie college kids stumbles upon their cabin, Tucker and Dale are faced with the prejudice of all horror films that casts them as crazed killers and the kids as hapless victims. But there’s real evil lurking in them woods, and Tucker and Dale are the only ones equipped to fight it.
Like Scream, the film bends horror conventions without compromising its taste for murder and mayhem. Tucker and Dale are wonderfully hapless characters, confused by the terror that they seem to cause; it’s actually great fun to see the annoying college kids begin to fall prey to their own imagined fears. The film takes a few unexpected (but very satisfying) twists to get to its blood-soaked finale, and like Scream, it successfully brings the scares while also playing around with horror conventions.