Hatchet (Unrated Director's Cut)
by Adam Green
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Actor: Deon Richmond, Joel Murray, Mercedes McNab, Patrika Darbo, Richard RiehleDirector: Adam Green
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Cinematographer: Will Barratt
Composer: Andy Garfield
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
Movie Reviews of Hatchet (Unrated Director's Cut)
Movie Review: Just Horrible...
Summary: 2 Stars
Hatchet- Unrated
Do you love comedy and horror? I do. Do you love them together? Me neither. They are two things that I don't think will ever work together. This movie is horrible and I hope you read this review carefully before even thinking about purchasing this movie. The back of the DVD case advertises its wonderful gore and nudity. Honestly, that is all this movie has that can be even considered good. That's right, the nudity is better than most of the movie itself. That's when you know a movie is bad.
The story is that a group of friends travel to New Orleans for Marti Gras. One of them has just broken up with his girlfriend and all the nudity is just making him depressed. He convinces one of his friends to come with him on a scary boat ride. Along on the ride are: Porn Stars, a fake director, an Asian tour guide, an older couple, and a mysterious girl. Eventually the horrible tour guide crashes into a rock. They escape the sinking boat only to find themselves in front of Victor Crowley's house. Victor Crowley was deformed as a child. Some kids were picking on him and went to the extreme and started a fire in his house. Victor's father came home to try to save him but instead he killed him by an accidental hatchet shot to the face. Naturally from there Victor controls the woods around the swamp and kills people. The group of people try to survive the monster, but are slowly picked off one by one.
If anything, the story sounds like any other cheap slasher movie. This is added in with some moronic teenage humor and you have the makings of a horrible film. I will say that I thought Victor and his origins were nicely done. Other then that the rest of the story is downright bad.
One thing that is a big plus for this movie is the gore factor. It's off the charts. The type of killing is unrealistic, but is very well done. You will see arms being ripped off, bodies ripped in half, and heads ripped apart by the jaws. Truly this is the best part of the movie. I would actually suggest just skipping to these parts if you own this movie.
This movie also advertises "eye-popping nudity" on the back of the case. There are a lot of women flashing people in the beginning, but not much after that. If for some reason you need more nudity in your films, you won't find it on this DVD.
Extras are your standard commentary track and making of stuff. The making of stuff is pretty cool because it shows you how they did a lot of the gore and stuff. They even show how they decided to do the gore with the use of action figures. You also get outtakes, but how many times are you going to watch that.
Skip this movie unless you are an absolute die hard for cheap slasher films. The acting in this movie is downright pitiful. Most of the actors are side characters from other, better films. If you want a good movie you should just keep of looking.
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! Starring: Joel David Moore Deon Richmond Mercedes McNab Tony Todd Robert Englund Kane HodderSystem Requirements:Length: 84 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/MURDER & MAYHEM Rating: NR UPC: 013131525298 Manufacturer No: DV15252Adam 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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