Hatchet (Blu-ray Review)

Blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood, blood.

Haven't you seen enough boobs?

Hatchet is billed as "old school American Horror." If by that fans are led to expect plenty of bare-chested
girls, an unforgivingly dark atmosphere, and a typical array of characters killed off one-by-one by a deranged and
deformed psychopath living off the land (and the good folks) around the outlying swamps of New Orleans, then yup,
Hatchet delivers some old-school genre fun. If it really just sounds like a typical hack-and...

Video

Hatchet scares up a nice-looking 1080p transfer for its debut Blu-ray release. The picture's unforgivingly dark
through most of its runtime with only a brief respite to introduce its main characters early on in the film. As such,
blacks are crucial to the presentation, and they impress far more often than not. They're deep and dark and don't
devour too many important details in the frame. Several scenes in the film are so dark the screen may as well be
completely black; the da...

Audio

Hatchet tears into Blu-ray with a potent and exhilarating Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack that's a match
for the film's fast pace and excessively grisly visuals. The track yields a strong assortment of surround sound
information; whether capturing the ambience of Louisiana's swampy backwaters, heavy rain and booming distant
thunder, or Horror movie-centric odds and ends that effectively place the listener in the midst of the bloodshed,
Hatchet's lossless soundtrack pr...

Supplements

Anchor Bay slices out several quality extras for this Blu-ray release of Hatchet. Two commentary tracks
headline the package. The first features Writer/Director/Co-Producer Adam Green and Actor Kane Hodder. This is a
new
commentary recorded for the special edition Blu-ray release and features a very happy-to-be-here Kane Hodder, who
wasn't able
to
attend the recording of the original track. This commentary focuses less on the making of the film and more on the
details of...

Final Words

Make no mistake, Hatchet doesn't have an original bone in its body. But by the time the movie's over, most of
the character's won't even have bodies in which to hold their bones, original or otherwise, so at least Hatchet
has that much going for it. Hatchet is very good for what it is, but it's not a movie that's going to redefine a
genre or anything like that. In that sense, it's no Halloween, <......

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