Horror-comedies are a mixed bag. Often they’re not scary or violent enough to satisfy your horror boner, nor are they funny enough to tickle your funny bone(r). When they work well, you get an Evil Dead II or a Dead and Breakfast. When they fail you get…I don’t know, who remembers shitty horror-comedies? Tucker & Dale vs. Evil follows two lovable, well meaning rednecks through a series of misunderstandings that result in a group of vacationing college kids being convinced the duo are out to murder them. Like any educated group, the kids decide the best thing to do is to take the war to the hillbillies and try to kill them and rescue their “kidnapped” friend. Things go comically and fatally awry to great effect.

It’s the week after Thanksgiving, there’s Christmas music playing non-stop on the radio and people are getting pepper-sprayed at Wal-Mart during Black Friday video game stampedes. This can only mean one thing… it’s time for a kick-ass hillbilly horror comedy to come out on DVD and Blu-ray. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil had a fun little jaunt through limited release this fall, along with some premium-priced On Demand options. Now, everybody’s favorite West Virginia rednecks can come to your DVD or Blu-ray player and fight the evil that is college kids camping in the woods. And like our heroes Tucker and Dale, it’s best enjoyed with a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon (in a non-ironic way), or better yet: simple generic beer!

After a painfully long time sitting around, waiting for the right distributor to come along, playing the festival circuit (I’m pretty sure it played South by Southwest two years in a row), the excellent genre comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil is finally available for viewing in your home right effing now. For those who don’t remember, this is the Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine led comedy about two rednecks who are mistaken for Deliverance-esque killers by some backwoods camping coeds. The coeds think that Tucker and Dale kidnapped their uber-hot friend (30 Rock‘s Katrina Bowden), so they go on the attack. From there, hilarity ensues. For more of a refresher, please consider my glowing Tucker & Dale review from Sundance 2010. If I can’t convince you to see this movie on VOD, I’ve failed as an advocate of fun cinema. For information about which VOD services Tucker & Dale will be on, visit Magnolia Pictures’ website to see the list. I’ve also left a few great clips from the film after the jump. If you’d like to see this film in theaters, it opens limited on September 30.

The cast for Timur Bekmambetov’s upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter keeps filling out. Already we’ve been told about Benjamin Walker as Lincoln himself, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln, Robin McLeavy as Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Jimmi Simpson as Joshua Speed, Anthony Mackie as William Seward, and Dominic Cooper as Henry Sturgess. Well, now you can add to that Alan Tudyk as Stephen Douglas. Everybody knows Stephen Douglas as the other half of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates. But what most people don’t know is that in addition to being a political adversary to Lincoln, Stephen Douglas was also an ally of the dangerous vampire clans of the mid 1800s. With this film a hidden, shameful part of Douglas’ past will finally be brought to light. Some people may vaguely recognize Tudyk as that funny character actor guy that they kind of know. And then there are the rabid fans of Firefly who would berate those people for saying such an ignorant thing because Alan Tudyk is Wash and you need to show some respect. Either way, I imagine that everyone who knows Tudyk as an actor is probably a fan. I’m especially excited to see him further explore his villainous side, as I really enjoyed him as a psychopathic sleaze ball in the short lived and otherwise unspectacular show Dollhouse. Could we be looking at a new direction for Tudyk’s career with him playing villains? Whatever keeps him up on the big screen is fine by me. Source: Cinema Blend

Michael Bay seems to be trading one type of bloat for another.

Are you tired of negative hillbilly stereotypes in horror films? I didn’t know I was. As a southern-born gent and lifelong film geek, whether I’ve wanted to or not, I’ve continued to possess a keen awareness of how the people of my region are represented in film.

Do you like movies in which people are killed in creative ways? Do you like movies that will make you laugh so hard you may pee yourself? Do you like movies that do both? If so, this is your movie.

Remember all those times that rednecks attacked you and your friends on Spring Break in the woods? Turns out you were the assholes.