Hatchet (Unrated Director's Cut)
by Adam Green
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Actor: Deon Richmond, Joel David Moore, Joel Murray, Joshua Leonard, Kane HodderDirector: Adam Green
Brand: MOORE,JOEL
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
Movie Reviews of Hatchet (Unrated Director's Cut)
Movie Review: A new cult classic.
Summary: 4 Stars
Victor Crowley was born deformed and forced into seclusion with his father in a cabin in a New Orleans swamp. Ridiculed and tortured by the local children, he is thought to have burned alive until he returns years later and wreaks havoc on a boat tour full of tourists, entrepreneurs, air-heads and frat-boys. Crowley obviously has anger issues and a hatchet to grind, so to speak.
For writer/director Adam Green, "Hatchet" is a labor of love. The man grew up on 80's slashers such as "Friday the 13th" and it shows. Aside from casting the most notorious Jason Voorhees of them all - Kane Hodder - in the title role, the film is also host to other horror icons such as Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series) and Tony Todd ("Candyman" himself). If the trio of horror royalty doesn't seal the deal, then surely the make-up effects by John Carl Buechler (whose credits are too long to list) certainly do. Buechler's work here runs the gamut from sickening to hilariously over-the-top (all about that belt sander!) and call back to a time when horror movies were pure escapism. No doubt, this is a horror film that doesn't take itself too seriously (in sharp contrast to films like "Saw" or "Hostel") but at the same time, is a quality slasher flick that doesn't skimp on the thrills.
From front to finish, all 84 minutes of "Hatchet" are pure slasher goodness. Rather than being just a stale homage to the franchise films that dominated his childhood, Green has actually created an icon all his own that pays loving tribute rather than references. While Victor Crowley may never reach the heights of Freddy, Jason or Michael, he's certainly the stuff fan-favorites are made of, appropriate for the cult classic that this film is destined to become. You just can't go wrong with a horror movie made by a fan with a talented cast and outrageous effects. It's the perfect movie to chill with on a Friday night and certainly one of the finest modern slashers to come along in a long time. As for "Hatchet 2," I say bring it on!
Summary of Hatchet (Unrated Director's Cut)
Get ready for one of the most talked-about, red- blooded American horror movies of the past 20 years: When a group of New Orleans tourists take a cheesy haunted swamp tour, they slam face-first into the local legend of deformed madman Victor Crowley. What follows is a psycho spree of seat-jumping scares, eye- popping nudity, skull-splitting mayhem and beyond. Joel David Moore (DODGEBALL), Deon Richmond (SCREAM 3) and Mercedes McNab (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) star - along with horror icons Tony 'Candyman' Todd, Robert 'Freddy Krueger' Englund and Kane 'Jason' Hodder - in this screamingly funny carnage classic that Fangoria hails as "a no-hold-barred homage to the days when slasher films were at their reddest and wettest!"Adam Green's Hatchet is a goofy, gory gas that pays tribute to the slasher boom of the 1980s by placing more hapless teens in the path of an indestructible maniac. Said killer is Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder, Jason in many of the later Friday the 13th entries), a deformed Louisiana swamp dweller who returns from an apparent fiery death to lay waste to a mixed bag of tourists and Mardi Gras revelers who've wandered into his turf on a "haunted swamp" tour. Hatchet doesn't exactly surpass the movies it's spoofing; Green's characters are dopey ciphers, and Crowley's indiscriminate killing spree negates his sympathetic origins. But the dialogue is glib and the performances funny (especially Parry Shen as the tour's unlikely guide and Joel David Moore as the lovelorn hero), and '80s horror aficionados will appreciate John Carl Buechler's outrageously gross effects (which get more screen time in this unrated cut). There are also cameos by genre vets Robert Englund and Tony Todd, as well as Joshua Leonard from The Blair Witch Project. The widescreen DVD includes commentary by Green and several of his players, as well as featurettes on the making of the film, its villain and his elaborate makeup, and a scene breakdown of one of the film's most jaw-dropping effects. A gag reel and a conversation between Green and Twisted Sister frontman and horror fan Dee Snider rounds out the commentary. -- Paul Gaita
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