Shakefire talked with writer and director Adam Green. He's created the new face of the horror genre with Victor Crowley and Hatchet and now returns for the sequel, Hatchet II. The film takes place exactly where the first one left off and it just as outrageous and over the top as before.
Bloody-Disgusting says
MGM is in talks to acquire Killer Pizza, an Adam Green (Hatchet, Hatchet II, Frozen) spec script adaptation of the Greg Taylor book about a 14-year old boy who lands a summer job at a pizza joint that is actually a front for a monster hunting enterprise. Sounds like Lover Boy with monsters! Green talked to Bloody about the film last August.
This could be a fun little movie - I have to say that I'm also itching for a Goonies/E.T./Monster Squad kind of family adventure in a big way. I'd love to see an actual Goonies sequel and a proper directors cut of the original complete with the giant squid scene.
NFamousGamers writes:
Slasher films have been a staple of the horror genre since the early 1970s (1960s if you count Psycho). But the big boom was in the 70s. Gory, blood-infested films with lots of pretty girls with nice racks getting hacked to pieces by a demented mad man were the rage. This tradition got stale in late 1980s and the early 1990s, but was brought back by Wes Craven in 1996 with the hit movie Scream. The genre was revived again with a fresh take on it in the form of Adam Green's Hatchet in 2007 (it was actually released in film festivals in 2006 but didn’t receive wide release until 2007).
I have enjoyed both of these so far. They were nice old-school b-style slasher movies I thought.
David Weaver from Home And Theater writes: I had heard through the "web"-vine that this was supposed to be one of the goriest and purposely cheeseball horror/slasher films in recent memory. I had never seen the original one (nor did I ever have the intention to) but this sequel kind of intrigued me a bit. So I plopped down my $2.50 at the local video store and said what the hell. I can honestly say now that it lives up to the hype of the gory death scenes it has been beating its chest over but does that mean it was an honest to goodness good slasher film...?
