3. Tucker and Dale Vs Evil
Wrong Turn, The Hills Have Eyes and Texas Chainsaw Massacre; what have these films taught generations of horror fans? That hill billies in their various forms are insane and always on the lookout for some young flesh to pull away from the bone like a perfectly cooked red-neck chicken. Tucker and Dale Vs Evil takes this concept and proposes that the bad guys are actually the sexed up drunk college kids. This is the beauty of the film and the Meta-Horror genre, it takes tropes and staples of horror films and turns the perspective around to produce films that are original in their writing and presentation. Tucker and Dale are hapless loveable hicks who on the outside appear to be creepy freaks but in reality are tongue tied lonely guys that witness a group of kids kill themselves in all sorts of different accidents. For example one scene features a teenager fall head first into a wood chipper, but as one of the redneck protagonists start pulling out the mince meat minor the other kids look on witnessing what they believe is to be a brutal murder. Though this film is the same joke over and over, it puts forward in such a way that you cant help but love the main characters and feel bad for their ignorance and situation.