HATCHET -2007

Director : Adam Green

Producer(s) : Scott Altomare, Cory Neal, Sarah Elbert

Writer : Adam Green

Genre : Horror/slasher

Rating : R

Running Time : 1 hr - 33 mins

Cast :  Joel David Moore, Tamara Feldman, Deon Richmond, Mercedes McNab, Parry Shen, Joleigh Fioreavanti, Joel Murray, Richard Riehle, Patrika Darb

                                    Billed as “Old School American horror”, Hatchet’s actually something far less, more like a boring over-done homage to ’80s slasher films. Writer-director Adam Green has clearly spent a lot of time watching schlocky horror flicks and he def some has fun with the old horror film cliches, especially the ones involving gratuitous nudity and characters who are essentially too dumb die and just to dumb to live. While, Moore and Feldman make decent leads, Mercedes McNab, who's hilarious as Misty did a great job . The supporting cast list is basically a B-movie roll-call of horror films, with cameos from, Robert "Freddy Kruger" Englund, Tony "Candyman" Todd and Joshua "Blair Witch Project" Leonard.

         The first act of the film just draggs and draggs to much for me, it should have been trimmed back more in editing.....there was just to much dialog and this made the actual horror part of the movie....... take way to long to get cranked up. None-the-less, here we go.......Depressed after breaking up with his girlfriend and unmoved by the countless Mardi Gras girls flashing their ta ta's on every New Orleans street corner, Ben (Joel Moore) persuades his friend Marcus (Deon Richmond) to join him on a haunted swamp tour.When their boat breaks down and their tour-guide (Parry Shen) turns out to be a clueless dimwit of a captain, the tourists quickly realise that they're lost in the swamp. However, that's the least of their problems, as Marybeth informs them that they've stumbled into the stomping-ground of deformed local boogieman Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder) and soon the maniac is chopping em all up, one by one.

                The hatchet-related moments are a marvel of low-budget special effects technology and they're extremely effective, although they backfire slightly in that they're more funny than scary. The Victor Crowley character was just to over done in make-up, although the look and make-up was done great, he looked more like an alien than a boogie man. The special effects kills were just to over the top and the script was just wayyyy to much talking. The movie just draggs and takes to long to get into the action, but I did like the alligator munching scene.