Adam Green’s Hatchet was one of the few films whose marketing campaign was actually smarter than it. By promoting Hatchet as wholly original horror film during a time where everything out of Hollywood was a remake or a sequel it amassed a ton of hype, which only served to add to the crushing disappointment when we all found out that the movie was as by-the-numbers as you could get.
But you won’t know that from this teaser trailer for Hatchet 2!
C’mon, guys. Hatchet didn’t do anything to the slasher genre, let alone “resurrect and change” it. Your big hulking villain was more memorable for his cool name than for anything he did in the film.
Still, Hatchet 2 will hit AMC theaters on October 1st. Just make sure it’s not the AMC in Times Square, cause you’ll come home with more than chills (you’ll also get bed bugs).
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I recall seeing the first one, enjoying it but then it got mostly lost amongst my memories of other slasher films – I could have told you it involved a toruing boat. What I couldn't have told you was the name of our slasher here – whereas I COULD have named Leslie Vernon of Behind then Mask, which slightly pre-dated this didn't it? Still, I guess that did have his name in the title. But I think I would have preferred a sequel to that. Anyway, ridiculous hyperbole notwithstanding, I'll enjoy catching up with this on rental one Saturday night.
Haha, Hachet, the "holy grail of horror films"; what a joke.
Awwwww, man. Based on the title of the article, I was ready to say that we were lied to the FIRST time around, and here you beat me to it. Good call. I'm a fan of the guy, but any movie where Kane Hodder ever gets to "act" without monster make-up usually isn't going to be anything too terribly special. Directors that care about the quality of their films just generally don't let that happen. I'm not counting "Behind the Mask", which he's only in for like a second anyway.
I dig. Hatchet was great dumb fun, more great dumb fun than any Transformers movie. And now that they got rid of that awful dude with the crazy adam's apple, this sequel can only be better. And Danielle Harris helps too.
For those that have seen the 1st you know the thing was tongue firmly in cheek and silly as hell the whole way. I'm pretty sure this teaser has irony written all over it. Lighten the heck up ya'll and lets go back to the swamps for more cool kills.
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