You have to love it when classic tropes are turned on their heads. There are so many clichés in film these days, its truly enjoyable when a movie recognizes them and then does the unexpected. A great example of this is Shaun of the Dead. In that movie there were several situations where because of what we have seen in other zombie films, we expect certain scenes to play out in a certain way, but Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg messed with our preconceived notions of what a zombie movie can be and created a genuinely hilarious but still somewhat scary (if not, gory) zombie movie. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil does for the slasher genre of horror films, what Shaun of the Dead did for zombie movies.
