Hatchetman

The brief movie description on the back of the DVD case caught my eye and I knew this was one to add to my 'B' movie collection. College coeds by day, strippers by night and a brutal serial killer on the loose.

You will be disappointed if you are looking for a unique thriller, this certainly falls into the 'B' category.

I new what I was getting though and was pleased to find that at least the main cast, Mia Zottoli in particular, was pleasant to the eyes. The plot, twists and all, didn't matter much. After all we are talking about college coeds by day and strippers by night.

First i am not the type of guy who will complain about some boobies, the movie is about a serial killer who kill stripper, so then why not showing boobies? (too bad we don't see the ones of Claudia tought) The killer is not very original with his Halloween mask and of course the hatchet, but still he is kinda of fun to watch.

We have to take this movie as a low budget z-series, thats why we don't see much of the killing and mostly victims after killings, but the blood is decent and all.

Well lets say i had a great time watching it, sure some plot things are badly done etc but if you take it as a low budget pop corn movie, taking on the example of Friday the 13 and Halloween, you could end up having a good time.

In one of the first scenes, this movie seemed to me as a very good one. It had the kind of stuff that you would usually see in a good horror movie. Until I saw it all. This was obviously a very low budget film. The effects were bad, some of the acting was lousy and the plot ? I wouldn't go there. This movie does not deserve it's place in the shelf marked "horror", why ? Owing to the fact that there is more erotic than horror or action in this movie after my opinion. After seeing this film, you are left with the thought of a cliché that was suppose to be a good horror movie. A movie about a lunatic, running ironed with a big axe slaying people with some strippers on a pole in between the "scary" scenes.

1/10

This little low-budget Horror was an absolute gem of the slasher genre, there's a Noir style & feel to it with a great visual look & exciting suspenseful music & a great little cast of practically unknowns or atleast to me anyway. This is such as fun throwback to the sleazy & gritty sexploitation slasher films of the 80s & 90s, it's got that mix of adult erotic Thriller & gritty Detective slasher flick, all very exploitation style with lots of sexy half naked ladies!!! I loved it lol The killer is fun too with a silly Halloween demon mask & hatchet as his weapon!!! There's some hilarious bits too that mostly come from the silly & funny "Rob" the apartment manager played by Chris Moir, an actor i also had never heard of before this film but he's great in this flick.

Hatchetman is as good as any of it's other bigger budget cinema released films such as the "Scream" films or the "I know what you did last summer" films or the "Urban Legend" flicks, this slasher is like a pure pulp noir Thriller with slasher & Horror elements, we have a Detective on the trail of a serial killer who is targeting beautiful strippers & the cop "sonny" is dating the main girl & we have lots of could-be killers or Red Herrings, we have the seedy strip club full of weidos watching the beautiful ladies & we have a funny & strange apartment manager who is in love with one of the strippers & we have the sleazy down town los Angeles setting as a gritty but also sometimes beautiful setting/backdrop for this very pulpy noir mystery to unfold. The group of strippers are a great group of friends too & their friendships add a nice depth to the dangerous situation, the girls are not horrible trashy women they are actually a nice bunch who only do it as a job & are each given a nice character role, a neat idea the type Tarantino would use for his main group of tough chicks!!! Some stand out more as good characters like "Star" she's a BEAUTIFUL & tough lady, we have some nice gory moments & all help make a very well directed & written Slasher-Thriller with great characters & NONE that are annoying!!!

One of the best of the genre & more than a throwaway cheap slasher flick, this is a layered mystery with good solid performances all round, a real gem from the early 2000's straight to the video store genre flick!!! Pure late night entertainment

It's obviously very low budget but this was no excuse for such cheap schlock. This is mostly a succession of not-so-great stripping scenes at a strip club (where women only bare their breasts) cut with short, disappointing murders committed by a masked maniac dubbed Hatchetman because of the weapon he seems to use. This is also a festival of horrible acting headlined by the obnoxious, overacting building manager and by the biggest-breasted star stripper. The grieving scenes are particularly pathetic and fake. The only not-so-bad actors are probably the detective and the new curly-haired stripper. The writing is below soap-opera quality. The build-up to the murders is lame (except the first one) and the murders themselves are over in a flash with a splash of blood on a wall and a quick glance (or not) of the victim. There's no suspense, no horror. There's a pretense at a murder mystery but it quickly becomes obvious who the killer is. The characters act stupidly and unrealistically. The ending is beyond lame. This pathetic, oblivious, unoriginal and unfunny excuse for a B-movie film is not worth watching.

Rating: 2 out of 10 (terrible)