Comments on: Hatchet (2006)

By: » Retrospective: Agressive Alligators and Killer Crocodiles

» Retrospective: Agressive Alligators and Killer Crocodiles — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:08:26 +0000

[...] HATCHET (2006). Talking about psycho killers in a swamp, here’s another one, and there is an alligator in this film, too. The opening scene features a couple of poachers killed off while hunting a big gator, and later an alligator (perhaps the same one) munches on the leg of a tourist after the tour boat runs aground. It could be just a coincidence but EATEN ALIVE’s Robert Englund plays one of the unfortunate poachers; I tend to think that writer-director Adam Green cast him as a deliberately jokey inside reference to the Tobe Hooper film. Also worth noting: the basic set-up of HATCHET is recycled in ROGUE. [...]

By: » DVD Review: Rogue (2008)

» DVD Review: Rogue (2008) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:44:39 +0000

[...] is to make a JAWS-type film with a crocodile instead of a shark, the set up actually more resembles HATCHET, with a group of tourists on a boat ride that runs aground, leaving them stranded with little hope [...]

By: » Sense of Wonder: Looking Over Films Overlooked by Oscar

» Sense of Wonder: Looking Over Films Overlooked by Oscar — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:10:15 +0000

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By: » Remaking Asian Horror - A Brief History

» Remaking Asian Horror - A Brief History — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:47:28 +0000

[...] has been drowning in remakes of Asian horror films ever since (a fact spoofed in the tagline for HATCHET, which proclaimed, “It’s not a sequel, it’s not a remake, and it’s not [...]

By: » IGN reviews the year in horror

» IGN reviews the year in horror — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:20:40 +0000

[...] horror films do still get made. Unfortunately, in the case of HATCHET (like last year’s FEAST), they do not necessarily get the attention they [...]