A slasher film with a rating of 5.7 on IMDb from 2006 with 3 sequels that all have equally similar ratings. Are you kidding me? Have I fallen into another dimension? What kind of witch-craft is this? Naturally, as you can tell, my interests were peaked. So I finally got around to watching it and I could tell from a very early stage why the film's rating was so high. It wasn't going to be a unique brand of horror that achieved the result, it was the humour. This movie is genuinely funny. Toss in the fact that the horror element isn't bad either and you have yourself a very nice little film.Deon Richmond (who does not get enough work) was particularly hilarious and definitely the best thing about this film. Just like his role in 'Not Another Teen Movie' his character steals the show. Joel David Moore also plays his part as the straight guy excellently and has some great chemistry with Richmond. The entire cast has their part to play though and very few of them fall flat. The horror side of things is surprisingly entertaining as well. They go for the extreme gore route and it works to perfection. The look of 'Victor Crowley' is also very menacing and I could imagine it will stick with a few younger audience members. I had a great time with 'Hatchet' and would thoroughly recommend it to anyone looking for a fun ride.

It's your run of the mill horror film. Legend goes boy that was disfigured was home alone one Halloween night. Local teens want to get him out of the house so they set off firecrackers only it starts a fire. The boys dad comes home and trying to get the boy out accidentally hits him in the head with a hatchet and kills him. Now the ghost runs through the swamp.Fast forward now to Mardi Gras when some tourists and a local go on a scary boat ride in the night. You have your typical Bimbos showing their breasts to a porn producer. The old couple (old man a know it all) The comic relief and his friend who has broken up with his long term girlfriend who went on tour to forget her, the tour guide and last but not least a gun wielding local who is looking for her daddy and brother who went missing a few days prior. They end up hitting a rock sinking the boat and now trying to stay alive walking through the swamp. All to picked off one by one by the hatchet wielding disfigured madman. The acting isn't award winning but then most horror films employ b-actors. For the most part I was waiting and hoping that the "bimbos" would be picked off quickly as they are beyond annoying. If your wondering if they are just playing to be bad actors I don't think so. I've seen the blond before and she was just as bad and annoying. Reminds me of tori spelling actually. So that tells you just how bad she is. Lol There's not a lot of jump out of your seats moments, no creative killing tools. Your basic hands, hatchet, chain saw. A fair amount of gore and fast paced enough that you don't get bored. One question that i have, which i know it's Hollywood so anything goes and your suppose to just go with it. But the boy was disfigured and small and couldn't even feed himself (a scene showed his daddy having to feed him) yet now as a "ghost" he's huge and can swing a hatchet?? But as slasher movies go this one isn't the worse. It's a one time watch and as soon as I'm done writing this I'm going to look up hatchet 2 just for fun.

It's been a long while since I witnessed a story that was this unsatisfying, about a dead man who becomes a ghost, which is really a monster, but... etc., etc., blah blah blah. Fortunately, this is a no-brainer horror flick, and the splatter-gore is all alright, the mutant killer is okay, the jokes are well represented and in the end, the background story doesn't matter all that much.The acting is, considering once again this a no-brainer horror flick, more than decent, with a few familiar faces from some sitcoms. Plus: hooray for boobies. One last observation: that bus ride in the beginning reminded me much of a bit from some old '80s (Steven Spielberg?) horror movie - promising, but it didn't really deliver on thát part.6 out of 10.

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.