Hatchetman

This movie(or should I say travesty?) was in the bargain bin in a local movie store for two bucks. I figured, what the hell? It can't be so bad that I would regret dishing out two dollars for it. Unfortunately, I do regret it and I'm here to warn you not to see this piece of garbage. It was a very agonizing hour and a half experience.

The acting is seriously awful, I guess should expect it from a Showtime film but still, did they think they had quality actors when they were producing this? The story is nothing but a horrible cliché slasher only the killer was stupider than any movie I've ever seen. The music and everything else are also terrible. If you made the same mistake I made by purchasing this movie, do yourself a favor and throw it out.

I thought this movie was kind of funny and exciting and I enjoyed trying to guess who the killer was and think about the various leads and clues in the film. However, when I've finished it I was absolutely disgusted by it. I like horror fiction and thinks that "Friday the 13th" is like fine art, however this 21th Scream-clone called Hatchetman is really bad. Some scenes were completely inexplicable like the tough-cop routine which should have had no place in a horror movie like this and is out of tough with an otherwise different character (I mean, the leading cop). The acting is really poor at times. I thought the mask of the killer looked better than the one in Scream though. Anyhow, this movie (Hatchetman) belongs to the category of extremely inept, childish movies similar to Ed Wood maybe or to the movies like "Christina's House" (look up the director if you are looking for a real treat in inept horror film making). In the end Hatchetman just leaves you bewildered and disgusted.

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

To start my review, I have to say this is not a great movie, but it's so insane and way out of left field that it actually becomes a bit entertaining. Crazy, makes no sense, and it could be one of the worse films ever made, and yet, it's crazy B grade tropes, bad dubbing, and lack of actual plot(seriously how did this get a R rating and it wasn't a unrated release) but the humour, the lack of any coherent plot, give this a B grade and silly slasher, a so bad it's good feel, and I enjoyed, it's silliness!!!

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.