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It's Not A Sequel, It's Not A Remake, It's Not A Japanese Film.

By Brian Prisco | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (8)

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Say what you will about Adam Green as a filmmaker, but at least he’s having fun. He’s one of the few guys still making original slasher flicks. The original Hatchet came out in 2007, and Green’s already got four films under his belt. After getting raves at Sundance for his latest Frozen, people questioned his decision to do a sequel to Hatchet.

Question no more. Green, in his typically infectious bombastic style, gleefully gave us a glimpse at footage from Hatchet II. He showed us 8 of the reported SEVENTEEN kills in the film, including one of the greatest single fucking horror movie kills I’ve ever fucking seen. They said he’d never top the lady getting her face torn in half from the first one. He done it. And he claims that we haven’t seen NOTHING yet. Color me fucking stoked.

Hatchet II looks spectacularly bad, and I mean that in the best possible way. It’s got all the hallmarks of a perfect sketchy ass slasher film. Danielle Harris takes over the role of Mary Beth literally right where the last frame of Hatchet ended. Tony Todd and Kane Hodder return, as well as Perry Shan, even though he was decapitated and delegged in the last flick. Tom Holland, writer-director of the original Child’s Play and Fright Night, makes an appearance as well.

And in what appears to be an unprecedented and phenomenal move, after the lawsuits and battles with the MPAA over an R rating in the original, Green’s got a major movie theater chain to agree to release the movie in major markets UNRATED. This is a huge star-spangled FUCK YOU to the MPAA, and I love him for it. They didn’t just tell him to trim certain aspects — they flat out told him he was not permitted to show the things he did on film. And so they are taking a bold chance on distributing the film as unrated, since this means most of their major market will not be able to attend without a parent or guardian. However, if the delightful, cartoonish, Looney Tunes amped murders I saw are any indication, this is going to be a fucking magnificent film.

Let’s just say this. Among the eight I saw, and this does not count the topper, I saw a man getting killed in what I can only describe as a tabletop curbstomp. Support Adam Green. Like he says, “They keep remaking everything because you keep fucking seeing it.”

Hatchet II hits theatres October 1st.









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Comments

You just said it's not a sequel.

Posted by: Jay at July 24, 2010 10:13 AM

I hated the first one because Adam Green really pushed it as some revolutionary slasher with a genuine story and real characters when it was anything but. It was awful, derivative slasher schlock with a pair of good performances only brought out in one scene: the origin of the killer.

For those willing to jump in and call me an idiot for looking for an original slasher: they do exist. Teeth, for example, used the slasher/revenge format to explore the predatory nature of the over-sexualization of teenagers by peers and adults. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon completely subverted the formula by making it a fake documentary about the rise of a serial killer told through the signposts of the slasher film wherein all the characters in the fake documentary were well-versed in the symbolism of the signposts of the slasher film before being driven right into all the highlights of a feature length slasher in the final reel. The forthcoming Husk is a really unique take on the paranormal slasher where the victims are taken in a completely unpredictable order and the rules of the killer are discovered early on by the characters who still struggle to defeat it. Novel slashers occur; they're just ignored by most.

Now that Green is willing to admit to what the film actually is, I can approach the sequel with the proper mindset and enjoy it. That is, of course, if the performances aren't so wretched as to detract from the inventive gore again. I'm not holding my breath.

Posted by: Robert at July 24, 2010 11:56 AM

@ Robert

Couldn't agree more about Behind the Mask. It is easily one of the most inventive and original horror concepts to come out of the genre

Posted by: Jared at July 24, 2010 2:32 PM

“They keep remaking everything because you keep fucking seeing it.”

Yes, yes, yes, yes, fucking yes.

I never have understood the mentality of "well, I loved the original, so I'm sure to love the remake". The closest I came to that was when I heard they were remaking A Nightmare on Elm Street. I got excited for a moment, and then thought, "wait, why?". I like the original, and probably for a lot more reasons than just the story.

Oh, and I've officially decided that I don't like the way quotation marks including punctuation work. Blame it on my Computer Science degree. Much like Sarah Palin, I've gone rogue.

Posted by: pissant at July 24, 2010 3:47 PM

But..it IS a sequel….

Posted by: Horace at July 24, 2010 5:42 PM

I'll wait for home release. The first movie (yeah, it is a sequel so that's a weird column title) was okay. The kills were fun but the comedy/horror mixed together poorly so by the time it was done I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be an incredibly gory comedy or a lackluster horror film with some good makeup effects.

Posted by: TylerDFC at July 24, 2010 7:10 PM

those are not hatchets in the photo, those are double bit axes.

but I digress......the only thing more scary than a scary movie is a sequel to a scary move.

Posted by: lars fenderstatt at July 24, 2010 8:54 PM

The title is the tagline from the first movie -- the words a studio exec used to explain why his film would never get made, a fact Green proudly touted as to the originality of his work. I thought it was particularly funny since now he's writing Hatchet II. It was an attempt at being ironical. But without knowing that fact, I could see how that would be confusing.

Posted by: Prisco at July 26, 2010 12:39 PM