Bloody-Disgusting wants to send out a very big thank you to all those who came out tonight to support the horror genre and saw Hatchet at the few screens it was playing at. Reports were coming in all night that Adam Green's slasher favorite had sold out in Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, Baltimore, Austin, and many others. Read on for Spooky Dan's full report, and if you are in one of the areas and haven't yet seen the film - get your ass in gear! Anchor Bay is fully prepared to roll the film out into wider release if this weekend's numbers continue to impress.
Hatchet
Opening Night Report
By: SpookyDan
We in Los Angeles had a great time at the opening, almost the entire cast was there and many of the production people as well. But the highlight was the frenzy surrounding the movie… People are rabid about this, it was very much like being in a concert with all the cheers, and writer/director Adam Green got two standing ovations! The Hatchet Army was in full effect as what seemed like hundreds of the people there were proudly wearing their t-shirts and beads.
Green showed off the first of the Victor Crowley Hatchet masks during a 45 minute Q & A with the cast and crew after the film finished. A great thing is beginning with this film, all of the rival horror websites are banding together to help get people aware of this film that has had virtually no advertising. Celebs were seen, as well as many of the horror journalists. We even met people who drove from hundreds of miles away to show the support.
This is just the start of what could lead us to much more quality horror films, and all of YOU are to thank! Talk to people, go see the movie and just plain support horror. In the end we can make a huge difference in showing that our numbers are not small, and we as horror fans can enjoy a smart and fun horror flick. No more pg-13 horror but these films like this, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, Nightmare Man, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Autopsy, The Mother of Tears, Trick 'r Treat, and even Saw IV are doing things in the genre that supports our belief that quality horror is what we want as fans, not just watered down horror.
Again thank you thank you thank you to all the people who came out tonight and tomorrow night! We ARE making a difference!!!
Again, I must complain, what is wrong with PG-13 horror? For the millionth god damn time, gore does not make a good movie. This movie still looks fun, but saying that we as fans want hard R rated gory movies is absolutely insane. I think most would prefer a quality movie. Many people and directors need to learn that, as the whole PG-13/R horror debate has gotten old and annoying.
When Adam says PG-13 horror, he means watered down shit like the Messengers and Boogeyman... not necessarily ALL PG-13 movies. I know he likes Poltergeist, for example, that's PG.
Highly agree. PG-13 doesn't equal bad. A crap R or crap PG-13 are the same in my book.
Personally I found the Messengers and When A Stranger Calls (2006) to be just as bad as Saw 2, Hostel, etc.
I didn't think the Halloween remake was the greatest film in the last 2 years, and that was most definitely an R...
The issue isn't the rating, but the quality. Horror movies are supposed to be scary, and gore is not, in and of itself, scary. At worst, it's gross and off-putting; at best (and few films get this right), it can add some realism and brutality to something that is already scary for other reasons. If you're scared of stage blood and rubber guts, you have no business watching horror films in the first place. People who hate PG-13 horror movies are generally just posturing, trying to show how hardcore they are by being able to lots of what they know is phony gore and latex entrails. That said, I don't ever want to see horror go completely PG-13, because sometimes that visceral brutality is necessary for a horror film to fully realize its intentions. Imagine John Carpenter's THE THING or Stuart Gordon's REANIMATOR if they'd been PG-13! THAT said, I don't want HATCHET to succeed because it's rated R; I want it to succeed because it's an old-school slasher film, and the future of that sub-genre depends on how well it fares at a time when the overall horror genre, PG-13 and R, is sinking like a stone at the box-office.
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