Wow! Hatchet premiered at the Tribecca Film Festival in NYC and it more than lived up to my expectations. Victor Crowley is a juggernaut! I've never seen a horror film with such gruesome kills; many done with his bare hands!!! He'd pull Jason Voorhees limb from limb without even breaking a sweat. Someone taught the secrets of a fine Scotch whisky to Kane Hodder because this man just gets better with age.
I'm not easily sold on high-speed character development, but within five minutes of meeting each, Marcus (Deon Richmond) and Marybeth (Tamara Feldman) could virtually leap from the screen with hardly a protest from the audience. Deon absolutely steals every scene he's in. Except, of course, the scenes he shares with Tamara. As the affable yet socially inept Ben (Joel Moore) chips away at the chinks in her armor, the palpably discernible barrier between "the local" and the "tourists" continues to fall away throughout the length of the film.
The elimination of cut-aways prior to many of the kills is an amazing feat of cinematography. Director Adam Green's concepts are executed flawlessly by Director of Photography Will Barrett. Whoever thought of teaming these two up with effects master John Carl Buechler is a genius.
Horror is back folks; a gleaming beacon shaped like a bloody hatchet. I, for one, will heed the warning and stay out of the swamp...
I'm not easily sold on high-speed character development, but within five minutes of meeting each, Marcus (Deon Richmond) and Marybeth (Tamara Feldman) could virtually leap from the screen with hardly a protest from the audience. Deon absolutely steals every scene he's in. Except, of course, the scenes he shares with Tamara. As the affable yet socially inept Ben (Joel Moore) chips away at the chinks in her armor, the palpably discernible barrier between "the local" and the "tourists" continues to fall away throughout the length of the film.
The elimination of cut-aways prior to many of the kills is an amazing feat of cinematography. Director Adam Green's concepts are executed flawlessly by Director of Photography Will Barrett. Whoever thought of teaming these two up with effects master John Carl Buechler is a genius.
Horror is back folks; a gleaming beacon shaped like a bloody hatchet. I, for one, will heed the warning and stay out of the swamp...