Keith (Matthew MacCaull) and Kathleen (Elyse Levesque) are taking their kids Jeffrey (Josh Zaharia) and Amy (Amanda Fix) on an RV vacation across the country. While the family eats breakfast, Amy goes off to smoke and two backwoods types appear and are vaguely threatening. You’ve seen it before in, well, nearly every RV horror and rednecks against normal folks movies.

Except this one has a twist.

And I don’t want to reveal it because even though I assumed it was coming, the way it plays out was pretty great.

Directed by Tesh Guttikonda (the writer of Influencer) and Mitch Oliver and written by Al Kaplan (Zombeavers), this places the RV family into the home of Vern (Richard Harmon), Billy (Ben Sullivan), Big Mac (Dayleigh Nelson), Savannah (Brenna Llewellyn) and Juli Ann (Cassandra Sawtell). Their home is isolated far from the closest down and the law, which is Deputy White (Alexander Calvert).

Again, without giving much away, this does a great job of pitting the civilized — a family that barely gets along and use drugs to get by — against who they perceive as the hopeless uncivilized country folk who carry guns everywhere they go. The film also places your sympathy with some characters and then pulls your feet out from under you when the reveals — there are more than one — happen. Toss in some solid comedy that doesn’t diffuse the tension and some grisly gore — look out for that eyeball scene — and you have a slasher that’s way better than what we’ve come to expect from the genre lately.

You can watch this on Tubi.