Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Film review 2 (Tucker and Dale vs Evil)

Director: Eli Craig

Brief Plot Outline: Two hillbillys go to their vacation cabin in the middle of the woods at the same time that teenagers are camping there. Due to a series of hilarious misunderstandings, the teenagers think Tucker and Dale are serial killers and keep killing themselves while trying to rescue their friend

Which two scenes impressed you the most, why?
The scenes where Tucker is throwing wood into a woodchipper and the teenager goes to jump at him but lands in the wood chipper instead, impressed me due to the gore effect. I liked the red squirting out and I thought that the prop half a body looked impressive. I also liked the scene where Dale first tries to talk to the teenagers due to it being a parody of a typical horror scene with a killer talking to the victims

How has watching this film helped you understand the genre of filmmaking?
This film has helped me understand how to make a successful horror comedy. It manages to be funny while still sticking to some regular horror conventions that are both played straight and subverted. If I were to put some comedic elements in my trailer, then this film would help me with that

Which aspects of the film would you like to include in your own trailer?
I like some of the gore effects that are used in the film. Due to my trailer being a gory horror film I could learn a lot from watching this and apply the techniques used in this film into my own.

What aspects of the film would you like to avoid in your own trailer?
I would tone down the comedy slightly for my trailer and focus on the horror nd gore


How does the film show influence of its auteur?
The director has not made many over films and so can not really be described as an auteur


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