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Originally Posted by PaulD  Just watched Hatchet and Hatchet 2 back to back.
I was really disappointed overall to be honest. I know it's done as a love letter/homage to 70's/80's slasher films but because it's so over the top it just comes across as a tongue-in-cheek parody. The deformed, hulking, maniacal Victor Crowley character just comes across as a poor Jason Vorhees rip-off (even if Kane Hodder wasn't playing him) and for a film that concentrates so much on 'the kills' I found it odd that at least 2 of the deaths in the first one happen off-screen.
I thought the sequel was a bit better and because of the increased budget didn't have the cheap 'this-is-clearly-a-small-set' look of the first one (I have no problem with low budget films but the way the first one was shot made it look so obviously cheap and sound-stagey) but it wasn't great all the same.
Ah well. |
I really love the script in Hatchet .. it has that special something that makes it more of a throwback to the 80s. Very well written IMO. Hatchet 2, well that was just shite!