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 taking the world by storm as 30 Rock‘s airy, often charming secretary Cerie and being named Esquire’s 2011 Sexiest Woman Alive, Katrina Bowden has set her sights on becoming fish food for the somewhat anticipated horror spectacle sequel Piranha 3DD. A press release confirmed this morning that Bowden will join the likes of Gary Busey, Danielle Panabaker and Matt Bush in the 3D killer fish film, which is due out on November 23. It won’t be Bowden’s first walk on the wild side of horror though, as she starred alongside Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine in Eli Craig’s excellent scary hillbilly comedy Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. For those who don’t remember, that’s the festival-traversing horror comedy we (and almost every other writer on the planet) have been raving about since it debuted at Sundance in 2010. It’s still yet to see a release, which makes me sad. But hopefully the rise of Bowden, who is featured prominently in the film, will help get it into theaters or at the very least, onto DVD. In the mean time, Bowden will likely be eaten by several angry fish.

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.