I personally found it mildly entertaining.It was by no means the greatest slasher film i have ever seen.Not even close.But it was a lot better than the big budget mainstream horror movies that Hollywood puts out.99 percent of which suck ass.I beleive who ever made this film has more respect for the slasher genre than hollywood does.
That is because there are a lot of kids out there that grew up in the 90s or later and have no idea what this film is all about.
shareand of course there are the people out there that think the 80's provided movies delivered by god himself. this movie was entertaining but nothing more.
shareMaybe not delivered by the non-existent "God", but the 70s and 80s definitely provided better horror flicks than the 90s did.
shareThat's because the genre sucks and these kind of movies only really work the first hundred or so times they are done. These were great in the 70's and 80's because it was basically a new genre. Horror movies were generally a bit tamer pre-1970 and all those people who grew up watching movies like The Birds were blown away by some actual gore and kill scenes that happened on camera instead of off. The genre hasn't changed much since the 70's and we are pretty much all tired of seeing the same things over and over. The movie Hatchet is no better or worse than Friday the 13th part 2-8, it's just we have all seen it before and tend to associate nostalgia with movies we saw when we were young.
For me this is a classic , Adam Green knows his horror movies!!
shareHatchet is a lot gorier than the original Friday the 13th films, because Paramount was forced to cut them in order to avoid X ratings. Also, Hatchet is funnier than most of the Friday films, except for maybe part Part VI.
And you're right about the nostalgia factor, but Hatchet is good regardless.
The friday the 13th films are cut by seconds to obtain the R-Rating, nothing really extreme which is why by todays standards its silly they were considered Higher then R movies at all.
The Humor in Hatchet is just as lame as any old horror film that no one really finds funny except to laugh AT it, not with it. This is where Hatchet fails most, because you're suppose to laugh with it, but anyone who has a 3 digit IQ isn't laughing at it or with it, the jokes are that bad. And i doubt nostalgia years from now will change that to jokes you laugh at either, since the film seems to beg you to laugh with it. The fact that they know they are lame jokes, doesn't make them funny.
Hatchet isn't a terrible film, but its not funny and its not successful as nostalgia either unless you don't have a great memory of 80's slasher films. In which case, you might also find SCREAM nostalgic too. It's just a mediocre slasher film. it's low budget and violent and not a remake, rare for a modern slasher film which i think is why it gets more praise then it should. if it came out with any of the classics it wants to be, despite its violent 2nd half it wouldn't measure up slightly and be forgotten except as a curio.