This little low-budget Horror was an absolute gem of the slasher genre, there's a Noir style & feel to it with a great visual look & exciting suspenseful music & a great little cast of practically unknowns or atleast to me anyway.
This is such as fun throwback to the sleazy & gritty sexploitation slasher films of the 80s & 90s, it's got that mix of adult erotic Thriller & gritty Detective slasher flick, all very exploitation style with lots of sexy half naked ladies!!! I loved it lol
The killer is fun too with a silly Halloween demon mask & hatchet as his weapon!!!
There's some hilarious bits too that mostly come from the silly & funny "Rob" the apartment manager played by Chris Moir, an actor i also had never heard of before this film but he's great in this flick.
Hatchetman is as good as any of it's other bigger budget cinema released films such as the "Scream" films or the "I know what you did last summer" films or the "Urban Legend" flicks, this slasher is like a pure pulp noir Thriller with slasher & Horror elements, we have a Detective on the trail of a serial killer who is targeting beautiful strippers & the cop "sonny" is dating the main girl & we have lots of could-be killers or Red Herrings, we have the seedy strip club full of weidos watching the beautiful ladies & we have a funny & strange apartment manager who is in love with one of the strippers & we have the sleazy down town los Angeles setting as a gritty but also sometimes beautiful setting/backdrop for this very pulpy noir mystery to unfold. The group of strippers are a great group of friends too & their friendships add a nice depth to the dangerous situation, the girls are not horrible trashy women they are actually a nice bunch who only do it as a job & are each given a nice character role, a neat idea the type Tarantino would use for his main group of tough chicks!!! Some stand out more as good characters like "Star" she's a BEAUTIFUL & tough lady, we have some nice gory moments & all help make a very well directed & written Slasher-Thriller with great characters & NONE that are annoying!!!
One of the best of the genre & more than a throwaway cheap slasher flick, this is a layered mystery with good solid performances all round, a real gem from the early 2000's straight to the video store genre flick!!! Pure late night entertainment
Hatchetman is as good as any of it's other bigger budget cinema released films such as the "Scream" films or the "I know what you did last summer" films or the "Urban Legend" flicks, this slasher is like a pure pulp noir Thriller with slasher & Horror elements, we have a Detective on the trail of a serial killer who is targeting beautiful strippers & the cop "sonny" is dating the main girl & we have lots of could-be killers or Red Herrings, we have the seedy strip club full of weidos watching the beautiful ladies & we have a funny & strange apartment manager who is in love with one of the strippers & we have the sleazy down town los Angeles setting as a gritty but also sometimes beautiful setting/backdrop for this very pulpy noir mystery to unfold. The group of strippers are a great group of friends too & their friendships add a nice depth to the dangerous situation, the girls are not horrible trashy women they are actually a nice bunch who only do it as a job & are each given a nice character role, a neat idea the type Tarantino would use for his main group of tough chicks!!! Some stand out more as good characters like "Star" she's a BEAUTIFUL & tough lady, we have some nice gory moments & all help make a very well directed & written Slasher-Thriller with great characters & NONE that are annoying!!!
One of the best of the genre & more than a throwaway cheap slasher flick, this is a layered mystery with good solid performances all round, a real gem from the early 2000's straight to the video store genre flick!!! Pure late night entertainment