'Hatchet 2' Picked Up By Dark Sky Films, Plans to Build Franchise!
01-14-2010, 03:49 PM
I think I'm one of maybe a handful of horror fans who was really, really unimpressed with Hatchet. IMO the whole "old school American horror" hook was not only a fairly pretentious one (And I'm usually someone who hates that word with a passion), but wrong to boot; although 70s-80s American horror may not have been tame the way it is today, it usually seemed to have at least a bit more of a hook than "this is going to use more blood than other horror films". It just seemed like though they were "in it" for the right reasons, the filmmakers just didn't care about making something truly "special"...
If this does turn out to be a franchise, I hope the upcoming ones at least have a strongly-made cast of characters to back up the kills, guys who are more motivated than just hitting the killer once and scurrying away squealing every time x.X. More of the same "die, scurry, joke, die" just isn't going to hold water for long if you ask me, there needs to be suspense behind the death and better backstory behind the rest...
If this does turn out to be a franchise, I hope the upcoming ones at least have a strongly-made cast of characters to back up the kills, guys who are more motivated than just hitting the killer once and scurrying away squealing every time x.X. More of the same "die, scurry, joke, die" just isn't going to hold water for long if you ask me, there needs to be suspense behind the death and better backstory behind the rest...
âThe Fright Night remake is a film which taps into the audienceâs deepest rooted fears, such as those of vampires throwing motorcycles at them. I dread the thought of a vampire throwing a refrigerator or a deskjet printer or... Iâd better stop before I give myself nightmaresâ
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