It’s one of those films that shows when you put horror fans with talent in charge, you get something great. Yeah, it’s not perfect. Yeah, it’s oh so very 2006, but it’s also so much fun, so bloody, it doesn’t hold back...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2023

If you’ve never witnessed bare breasts or blood spraying from severed limbs, you are in for quite a ride.

| Apr 21, 2023

The movie is a triumphant reminder of the plausibility of physical showmanship.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2020

I think Adam Green did a great job of tapping into what made former slashers not only hits at the box office, but archetypal characters.

| Apr 9, 2020

Enthralling. Edge of your seat terrifying. It ratchets slasher horror up to new heights. Hatchet hacks its way to a return to the glory days of gore.

| Nov 13, 2019

Hatchet's gore is so over the top and silly that, even though a woman's head is literally torn from her body, you can't help but laugh when you see her tongue still bopping around.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Aug 9, 2019

In the spirit of the "set 'em up, knock 'em down" slasher genre, Hatchet plays fast and loose with tropes while adding its own bloody stylized spin and keeping things down and dirty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2018

Feels like an old-school slasher flick that's been hidden on a dusty shelf for the past twenty years. And yes, I mean that as a compliment.

| Aug 28, 2015

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The film might not host an original concept, but its attention to detail - the tiny things that made '80s slashers unique - render Hatchet a far more enjoyable experience than its competition.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 14, 2010

Lacking the satirical bite of the first Scream... this is mere pastiche that doesn't even wink at what it is pointlessly xeroxing from the past.

| Sep 22, 2010

I enjoyed Hatchet quite a bit. I was never scared, and I can't say I laughed out loud much, but it has a very gleeful tone that invites the viewer in.

| Sep 10, 2010

This may be the bucket of blood that splatter fans were eagerly anticipating ... but it is also an excellent horror film with solid scripting and strong performances that make it appealing to a wider audience.

| Jul 5, 2008

Enjoyably schlocky horror flick, with its tongue firmly in cheek, ensuring that there are several laughs to be had amidst all the gory, hatchet-wielding mayhem.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2007

Fun horror-comedy about tourists being picked off in the swamps. Tongues are firmly in cheeks; heads don't stay long on shoulders.

| Oct 5, 2007

This low-budget horror spoof lasts only 84 minutes, but seems to take forever.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 5, 2007

A reasonably serviceable horror, with much gory dismemberment, and featuring a kind of ancestor worship in the casting of scary-movie veterans Robert Englund and Tony Todd.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2007

Billed as "Old School American horror", Hatchet's actually something far less classy: a technically inept homage to '80s slasher movies that's both bloody and bloody stupid.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2007

Long before its howling bogeyman has savaged his last victim you'll be wondering if the movie has anything else to offer besides self-conscious homage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2007

Green's efforts to strike a balance between knowing humour and no-holds-barred horror are stymied by an erratic tone: a slow, talky build-up gives way to a soggy middle section and a messy, all-stops-out finale.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Oct 5, 2007