An innocent fishing trip turns into an accidental bloodbath in this 2010 horror/comedy they should have called The Cabin in the Whoops.

Probably the most interesting slasher flick since Scream, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil retells the classic ‘cabin in the woods’ tale from the point of view of the hillbillies, single-handedly undoing decades of negative stereotyping in the process. Eli Craig flips the hillbilly-horror script to portray the bumbling Southerners as misunderstood everymen and the college kids as paranoid psychopaths.

Interestingly this requires no change in the teen characters from the way they’re usually depicted in the genre, suggesting that the only reason they’re normally the protagonists is down to a kind of socioeconomic normativity. It is the teenagers’ indoctrination by cinema that causes them to wildly misjudge the titular heroes, exposing the prejudice baked into media representations of rural Americans.

But like Scream, Tucker & Dale also works as a great horror film, full of gory kills, hilarious dialogue and loveable characters. Tyler Labine is perfect as the kind-hearted Dale, and his relationships with both his best friend Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and love interest Allison (30 Rock‘s Katrina Bowden) are incredibly sweet, giving him a level of character growth that is arguably unprecedented in slasher cinema.

Combined with the smart script and subversive moral, this makes the movie a modern classic that puts the laughter in manslaughter.