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

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

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

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

Like Scream never happened, this is an uneven comedy-horror homage that gets by on enthusiasm alone.

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

Horror without suspense is like sex without love: you can appreciate the technicalities, but ultimately there's no reason to care.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 15, 2007

It's just not that scary (even the gory sequences are predictable and boring). And it certainly isn't clever or funny.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 15, 2007

Draggy stretches in the first few reels could easily have been pruned from an already tight 83-minute running time.

| Sep 11, 2007

A cut above average.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 7, 2007

Even after appropriately lowering expectations, it's kind to call this one a cut below.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 7, 2007

Green -- like John Carpenter, Wes Craven and the get-it-done directors he obviously admires -- is smart enough to ratchet up the horror in Hatchet to a level that should satisfy party-hard gore hounds and casual tourists alike.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 7, 2007

In its gore, Hatchet is not especially inventive

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 7, 2007

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 7, 2007

Marks the arrival of a very interesting new talent on the scene, one that feels inspired by the grindhouse horror genre and tired of the self-seriousness of the torture trend.

Full Review | Sep 7, 2007

The results can be messy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 7, 2007

High expectations and any discerning taste should be thrown out the window for a film of Hatchet's budget. That accomplished, audiences will find a gem of an intentionally bad movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 6, 2007