2006 · comedy · horror · supernatural
Hatchet
Directed by Adam Green1h 24m2006
When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
Our read: Hatchet (2006) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded comedy · horror · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme comedy / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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“You want old-school Louisiana swamp splatter with zero pretension and maximum carnage.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if extreme gore, dismemberment, and dumb slasher kills gross you out.
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