While we eagerly await writer-director Eli Craig’s new horror comedy, the evocatively titled Clown in a Cornfield, it’s never a bad time to revisit his feature debut, a slasher parody that asks “what if the scary backwoods rednecks were actually the good guys?

Partly because it’s underrated and not very well known, but mostly because it owns an incredibly moving story that anybody can relate to—one of letting go, of