Hatchetman

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)

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.

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.

Okay, one extra star for the luscious breasts. Yes, that is misogynistic, but since that's what they were going for, might as well give them credit. Otherwise, "Hatchetman" is pretty awful.

A bunch of strippers who all live in the same apartment building which on the outside looks like a cheap motel in Orlando but inside each room seems to have a different motif are being killed off by a guy in a Halloween mask and hooded cape (never seen THAT before). The characters include clueless and dumb cops and an annoying manager who is SHOCKED to discover that putting recording devices in tenants rooms to spy on them is against the law-but doesn't stop doing it.

The script was possibly written by a high school drama student. Or a porn writer. AI perhaps? I'd like to say that the acting is uh-MAY-zing...but it's positively dire. So bad it is actually funny. The direction is certainly inspired by Ed Wood. One scene made me laugh out loud when a girl walks in, sees a murdered person, pushes past two guys wondering what's wrong, and THEN when she gets OUTSIDE, she screams. Great direction! Such drama!

Honestly, Full Moon and SyFy Channel cranks out better stuff than this. There's nothing scary, the effects are juvenile and it's just so poorly executed that there's just no chance at taking it seriously. My best advice at attempting to enjoy this crap fest is to invite some friends over, get lit, call for pizza and riff it to pieces. Only then can there be any actual entertainment value gained by watching it.

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!!!