Live from Fantasia : Hatchet

Rising from the Louisiana bayou is Hatchet, a film that not only resurrects it’s hard-to-love central character, but also the spectre of one very bad 80’s idea…

A motley group of sightseers ventures into the swampland outside New Orleans for a little ‘haunted tour’. But when a local legend comes drooling and swinging back to life, there’s suddenly no shrub big enough to hide behind.

In Hatchet, the gore comes fast and bloody with bare bones, straight-to-the-point ferocity. Unfortunately, the monstrosity at it’s core is indestructible opening up the sad possibility of neverending sequels, and hey, what’s more 80’s than that? You say homage, I say fromage.