And then there is Eli Craig, who made his directorial debut with the 2011 cult hit Tucker and Dale vs.
"Both Tucker and Dale and Little Evil use tropes and the cliches of what can be hoped for in horror movies to reverse people's expectations," Craig told SYFY WIRE.
"I think that because so many horror movies have those strict rules, it provides fertile ground to upend those rules and expectations.
And for me at least, there's kind of a loving or meaningful message underneath the movies, but it's not told in a really heavy-handed way.".
A lot of those old movies like Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, the classics, they frightened me to death.
I always loved comedy, and we would in college sit around and watch Evil Dead over and over and over.
They did tell me that it performed in the top 10 movies the first week it was out globally. »