Metacritic Film

Hatchet

Starring Joel Moore, Tamara Feldman, Deon Richmond, Mercedes McNab, Kane Hodder, Parry Shen, Joleigh Fioreavanti, and Robert Englund

MPAA RATING: R for strong bloody horror violence, sexual content, nudity and language

Anchor Bay Entertainment
Comedy  |  Horror
93 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 7, 2007

For years the locals in the Louisiana bayou have whispered the frightening and tragic tale of Victor Crowley. One group of tourists are about to discover that the legend is real…and more horrifying than they ever imagined. Hatchet is a throwback to the glory days of horror that literally saws the face off the ‘slasher film’ as you know it. (arieScope)

WRITTEN BY
Adam Green

DIRECTED BY
Adam Green

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

57 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 LA Weekly
This horror comedy is loaded with decapitations, bodies torn in two and spewing blood, and yet, unlike the grim, torture-filled gore-fests of late, Hatchet’s mayhem is so giddily over-the-top that you end up applauding the low-budget aplomb of it all.
78 Austin Chronicle
No other film in recent memory has featured such a terrifically retro maniac or revisited the heyday of Eighties gore films with such gleeful, moist abandon.
75 Chicago Tribune Scott Schueller
This is not a film intended for a wide audience. But B-movie fans who find their way to Adam Green's gory schlock extravaganza are going to like it.
50 The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Hatchet is further evidence of the decline of Western civilization.
50 New York Post
Director Adam Green's genuine affection for the genre helps make Hatchet a cut above average.
50 The New York Times
Horror without suspense is like sex without love: you can appreciate the technicalities, but ultimately there’s no reason to care.
50 Variety
Joel David Moore leads a cast full of token minorities and bickering bimbos, whom writer-helmer Adam Green dispatches with knowing glee and an obvious love for genre conventions that almost overcomes the derivative scripting.
40 Los Angeles Times Michael Ordona
Even after appropriately lowering expectations, it's kind to call this one a cut below.

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