Hatchet On

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I'm getting more excited with every little bit I hear about the film Hatchet, that I'm seeing this Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival. Here's an interview with the film's director, Adam Green, and he comes across as, well, a huge horror geek like myself.

"What I like best about slasher films is what I think most people like, which is the villain. The mythology behind how the villain became who they are, the fact that the villain is usually death itself and there’s no way to escape it is what’s so fun. When you have people like Michael Myers and Freddie and Jason it got to the point where the movie was more about seeing what they would do next rather then the other characters in it.

Once Scream came around it was cool because it kind of brought it back, but it kind of made it a WB whodunit type thing, and at the end of each one there was a mystery. It was like Scooby Doo, at the end they would pull off the mask, and I was let down – I wanted to see something horrific beneath that mask. Then they kind of beat that to death and now in the 2000s it’s all remakes and torture films. I’m hoping that people will respond to Hatchet and get what I’m trying to do and we can bring it back around to the way where horror was actually entertaining and fun. There’s a lot comedy in the movie, but there’s no comedy with the horror, if that makes sense. It’s not like Scary Movie where it’s spoofing anything, it’s just really fun likable characters who get put in the most awful situations."

Oh, and LOVE that poster.