Sometimes I hate myself for not seeing the obvious ideas: "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil"

Because really, this is just short of genius. Think about it. What if all those "college kids terrorized by backwoods hillbillies" stories were told from the hillbillies' perspective? And they were NOT trying to kill those kids but just on vacation themselves?

That's the quite clever premise of "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil," and while not a masterpiece, the movie definitely lives up to its promise. Tyler Labine and the always fun Alan Tudyk are a couple of Southern boys heading to their cabin for the weekend who happen across a group of well-scrubbed college kids who, in classic "Three's Company" fashion, mistake our dynamic duo for murderous rednecks. This may sound somewhat forced, but director Eli Craig and our two leads, especially Labine, somehow manage to make it plenty believable.

Even after one of the kids -- Cerie from "30 Rock" -- ends up in the clutches of Tucker and Dale, the misunderstandings persist and build, with deadly consequences. And I'll say it again ... it all kind of makes sense. And made me laugh. A lot. If you don't mind blood and can appreciate some wink-wink genre-twisting, you could do a lot worse than this one.