From independent filmmaker Adam Green, slasher film HATCHET premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and has since played to sell-out audiences at a number of international festivals, including the London FrightFest Film Festival, and the Austin Fantastic Film Festival, where it was awarded both the Audience and Jury prizes for Best Actor and Best Special Effects, and the Audience Award for Best Picture.
Starring Joel Moore (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story), Deon Richmond (Scream 3) and Mercedes McNab (Angel), HATCHET tells the story of a group of tourists in New Orleans on a haunted swamp tour. After their boat sinks, the group find themselves stranded in the wilderness and hunted by a killer more hideous and terrifying than they could ever have imagined. A savvy, fun, blood-soaked horror, it features an amazing supporting cast of the some of the genre’s best known actors; Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Tony Todd (Candyman) and Kane Hodder (Jason from Friday 13th VII and VIII, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Chapter and Jason X).
Not a remake, not a sequel and not based on a Japanese one, HATCHET is pure old school American horror.
