Product Details

• Actors: Joel David Moore, Deon Richmond, Kane Hodder, Joel Murray, Joshua Leonard
• Directors: Adam Green
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: ANCHOR BAY
• DVD Release Date: December 18, 2007
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (154 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000WC389G
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,834 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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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

Product Description

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!”

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Comedy=Tragedy, February 28, 2008

By	Dolby "The Elder" (Texas) - See all my reviews

I love slasher movies. I was raised in a time when slasher movies were the norm and so they have been engrained in my soul. I wanted to like Hatchet, I felt I could like Hatchet, except for one thing. It's a comedy and it doesn't try to hide it. Old school horror was not trying to be funny on purpose. If this movie had just taken itself with a grain of seriousness I might have enjoyed it, but I laughed for half the movie. If you're looking for a comedy, Hatchet is for you.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Okay, So it was a Spoof, it was Pretty Darned Good, January 16, 2008

By	Mallory Smith (Tallahassee, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Yes, this film is a spoof, kind of, at least in my opinion, from the bountiful bare breasts to the buckets of fake blood used in this non CGI horror flick.

The movie follows your basic nice guy who just got dumped Ben and his pal Marcus who are partying hardy in New Orleans, but Ben wants more so he nags Marcus into going along on a Haunted Swamp tour. Big mistake. Marcus doesn't want to go, but when he sees some guy is making a cheap X type movie with a couple hotties who do beaucoup de flashing, then Marcus is up for the trip.

Basically the tour is a boat right though the swamp after dark. Naturally there's a good looking, non-breast baring babe for Ben to pal up with. Also there is a middle aged couple who get good and killed early on. The killing, that's something else. Remember I said no CGI. This stuff was done the old fashioned way and it's gory. Not so gory as to chase a girl out of the room, spoofy gory, if you know what I mean.

Lot of tension, good action, bad acting, terrific Victor Crowley as the deranged axe wielding weirdo all combine to make this creepy film really enjoyable.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Amateur slasher flick, January 16, 2008

By	SpiritChild "spiritchild" (Amherst, MA United States) - See all my reviews

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In short, Hatchet is your typical amateur slasher flick, with a superhuman, ugly bad guy chasing and killing annoying teenagers (for no good reason). By the way, "annoying teenagers" might be the understatement of the year when it comes to this film. Adam green (writer and director) was trying to go back to the old style horror flicks of the 1980's, but this movie seems so typical of our contemporary horror films (with hot chicks and ridiculous violence/gore).

Hatchet is real amateur (straight to video) stuff. For example, the movie opens up showing a mardi-gras parade, but there is no parade and only about 50 extras. However, a couple good actors such as Tony Todd (from the Night of the living dead, REMAKE) appear briefly in the film.

The most enjoyable part of this DVD is the extras. I enjoyed Adam Greens story about meeting Dee Snyder. I also enjoyed his commentary with the other actors. You can tell he is a nice guy with a lot of passion for making movies. It would be nice if someone like Quentin Tarantino would take him under his wing and teach him character development.