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DirkH3.5

I don't like shitty horror movies.I do like self-aware shitty horror movies.This film is shitty, is fully aware of it, relishes in it and throws in some great gore.I like this movie.

@NavyVet🔥🔥🔥4.0

Rotten Tomatoes: 53%Metacritic Metascore: 57IMDB: 5.783/100Release Date: 09 September 2007Distributor: Anchor Bay EntertainmentBudget: $1.5MWorldwide Gross:Rev. Zombie: "I don't do night tours anymore, I'm not allowed to. Insurance got too high after what happened."The tagline "Old School American Horror" is a little misleading. While it's true that "Hatchet" recalls the mad gore of the 1980s, the "horror" factor is actually absent, but I don't have any problem with it. That being said, it's obvious that the people involved in the production have a real love for the genre. Kane Hodder's monster antics are always a delight, while Adam Green made a nice name for himself in the slasher subgenre.TRIVIA: Writer and Director Adam Green created a "No CGI" rule for post-production. Only CGI was used to remove on-screen wires and camera set-ups.Structured largely as a parody of the Friday the 13th films, Hatchet casts legendary Jason Voorhees stand-in Kane Hodder as Victor Crowley, the deformed son of a backwoods Louisiana bayou fisherman (also played by Hodder), who was presumed killed years earlier in a house fire started by a bunch of tormenting local kids.Green follows the stock formula for such movies: take a bunch of folks, find an excuse to strand them in monster country, and let the audience revel in watching them get picked off one by one.TRIVIA: This movie was the last production to shoot in Louisiana before Hurricane Katrina hit. Parry Shen (Shawn), took part in all three Hatchet movies and Victor Crowley (2017), shot in Louisiana.Where Green excels, however, is in his smartly written, comically-paced script that is chock-full of genuinely funny inside jokes that are blatant winks at the audience and along the way establish more of a bond with Sean of the Dead than Halloween.In terms of horror movies, there's nothing going on here that is particularly inventive or even scary, but Green clearly isn't out to achieve that. Rather, he's paying homage to a genre that he grew up with, as is clear by the cameos he's given to icons Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street) and Tony Todd (Candyman and numerous others).TRIVIA: If you watch all three "Hatchet" movies in a row without opening and end credits, it would be one uninterrupted storyline, revolving around a few days.Bolstered by good acting, top-notch production values, and intentionally rubbery costume effects, Hatchet panders to the fan-boy crowd in glorious revelry. Clearly Green knows his audience likes to sit back, kick the Fangoria magazines off the couch, and watch somebody get hacked to pieces. While I think labeling Victor Crowley as the next horror icon in the same vein as Jason, Michael Myers, and Freddy is complete preposterousness, saying Adam Green is has become a complimentary name in the slasher subtext is a bit more true and realistic.Where would you rank Victor Crowley among the pantheon of slashers - Jason, Myers, Freddy, Leatherface, Candyman, etc.What was your favorite / least favorite aspect?Any particular moments stand out?Fact-Checking / TRIVIA Source:Be well, my friends.

Ian West4.0

After going through some still lingering personal life tragedies surrounding 9/11 and the deaths of three grandparents in a three month span, I decided to cut back on my horror intake dramatically in the mid to late 2000’s. I still watched stuff, but not nearly as much, and mainly focusing on more mainstream genre offerings that I could catch at a multiplex or on cable.I was very much out of the loop just trying to get back in a good headspace, and after another crisis hit I needed comfort, so I decided I should follow my heart and head back from my self imposed exile and see what the hell I missed. There was a slew of movies that I really turned me back on to the genre, Ti West’s The House of the Devil was a huge, Let the Right One In, Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, and Adam Green’s Hatchet were four of a handful of movies from that time period that sucked me back in. Hatchet, was exactly the mix of chaotic bloodshed peppered with doofy comedy—winning me over in the process with its admirable charm, swamp setting (I love swamps), and brutal murder setpieces. I was immediate a fan of Victor Crowley and totally wanted sequels! Shortly afterward I read about Hatchet II coming out soon and was lucky enough to see that on the big screen before it was pulled, eventually meeting Adam Green several times at conventions—where he’s always been a sweetheart and a gentleman who doesn’t charge for autographs or pictures (unlike Ralph Machio charging $150 for a photo op gtfo lmaooo)I’ve been a fan of him and this series ever since, and will always love Hatchet for making me feel like it was ok to have fun with horror again... and not at the expense of animals being butchered or women being brutally tortured & raped or psychological murder traps via that time periods current offerings...at a time when I was definitely not mentally equipped to handle that. Sometimes I just like dumb stuff.