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Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Holly Thompson I've heard rave reviews about this movie and finally decided to check it out. I've heard about it but didn't really know to much about it. Decided to watch it tonight and it was your typical American slasher film. It wasn't bad halfway through except the killing parts just looked way to cheesy to me. And every girl crying in scenes just ruins it and it's annoying. The ending was even worse. Somehow he was stabbed through the chest and seemed "dead" and they left and went in a boat. But then he comes back in the water and grabs the girl? Doesn't make any sense. Don't know how'd he get there so fast. Then a little bit after he was in the boat and killed the one guy. Just made no sense at all. Didn't really scare me. But it does say comedy on there. I see no need for them to have made a second one.

Ilikehorrormovies I almost like it but I end up not caring for it. It's not a rant or a positive review or a meh review too. The story is easy to follow if you're a fan of gore or watch 100 horror movie with the same story, the acting is meh, and it's not too clithè. They're some clithè here and there but they limit it. The worst part about this movie is how the script feels empty, that's my main problem. I like how the killer is based on Jason Voohrees but without a mask. At least it was better than Black Christmas (2006) and the disapointing Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Begining (2006). I watch it because I thought it was The Shinning (1980) but I didn't do research what The Shinning is. It's hard to think if it's good or not because it's forgetable and that's why I don't have a opinion on it. That's my review of The Hatchet (2006) so yeah, I don't care about the film.

Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki The casting is too self aware, too much winking at the camera, so to speak: horror film icons Tony Todd, Robert Englund, Kane Hodder (in two roles) and John Carl Buechler, in what is largely a Friday the 13th satire; the film's climax even takes place on a boat in the middle of the water, with the girl being pulled underwater, ala the original Friday the 13th. Perhaps if they hadn't spent so much of the budget on hiring those names, they could have hired more background extras to fill out the Mardi Gras scenes, instead of using close-cropping and frenetic camera-work to try to hide the fact that there are only about 20 people present at what is supposed to be Mardi Gras. After that shaky intro, a group of people go on a Haunted Swamp tour in Louisiana, only to be set upon by a mutant hillbilly living in the backwoods, who proceeds to hack them to gory bits. The film looks good once they get out of the city and into the swamps, but it doesn't work as a tribute to earlier horrors, because of the sharp comic dialogue, which is well delivered by its main cast of relatively unknowns, and had me laughing hysterically several times. The comedy simultaneously works in its favour and against it. It also doesn't have enough scares or shocks to work as a horror film on its own, despite buckets of blood and gore, and an overwhelmingly blood-drenched ending. The main cast are all good in their roles, and Joleigh Fioravanti, especially, is gorgeous and always fun to watch. I did enjoy this film, but more as a comedy, rather than a horror, at least until its awful ending, where everyone is killed, and the door is left open for the seemingly contractually obligated sequel.

bowmanblue I'm writing this review after a second viewing of Hatchet. I do love a good/daft horror/slasher movie and this one was billed as being right up there with the best of them, plus even a homage to the classics of the seventies and eighties.In short, I didn't like it at first. However, after a couple of years I decided to watch it again and see if I missed anything.Even now, I probably wouldn't say it's an absolute classic, but it is a decent enough little yarn (with plenty of blood).Did I say 'plenty' of blood? I meant TONNES. In fact, the producers obviously know they're going a bit over the top and must have had great fun throwing bucketloads of the red stuff at trees after every kill takes place.It's quite a short film (it doesn't really need to be any longer) and, after the thumping Marilyn Manson opening song, we meet about a group of people who go on a boat ride into the swamps of America and end up on the wrong end of a maniac's hatchet. The kills are very violent and, if you're looking for gore, you'll find it here. The best part of the film is the characters. Whether they're horrible or nice, they're entertaining. There's plenty of amusing banter between them to keep us amused (special mention to the two *ahem* 'actresses' who continually bicker with each other all the way through).These good characters go some way to make up for the film's major flaw: they don't kill the killer. This slasher film possibly has the most opportunities to either kill, or severely subdue the nutter with the hatchet, yet they choose to run off every time and leave him to 'get better' and resume coming after them. This is the most annoying part of the film and, if it wasn't for the snappy, tongue-in-cheek dialogue, I would have found myself getting increasingly annoyed with the whole package.All in all, this film is far from perfect, but, if you lower your expectations enough and put your brain on hold, you should enjoy the daftness and gore (like I say, it's not on for long!).Also, kudos to the film-makers for getting Robert Englund, Kane Hodder and Tony Todd on the same cast list.