At one point or another, we have all wound up in a situation
where we ask ourselves, “How on earth did I get here? How on earth will I get
out of this?” Hatchet is classic case of this scenario. Tourists hitch a boat
ride with a faux supposed local tour guide, only to become lost in a swamp as
it was raining, shipwrecked, and stalked/killed by reputed boogeyman, Victor
Crawley.
A fun cast goes a long way. Familiar faces and some spirited
comic timing can mean the world to a slasher film like Hatchet which wants so
badly to please the intended audience. Joel David Moore plays a forlorn
sad-sack enduring melancholy for losing his girl. Moore’s buddy (with a face
and delivery that adds a little extra to his lines, even making them better a
lot of the time), played by Deon Richmond (The Cosby Show), tries to talk him
out of the tour, but if they went back to Bourbon Street, there’d be no heroes
for us to watch attempt to avoid being ripped apart. Tamara Feldman is the
beauty Moore finds potential romantic interest in…well, she’s someone he talks
to about his pain to. Feldman has a reason for being on the tour and it isn’t
for the ridiculously wrong insight of her tour guide, played by Parry Shen (I thought
he was a treat as this Asian kid passing off a Cajun accent that comes and
goes, with his anger infuriated to the point thanks to corrections from those
in his group that he bursts into his native language much to their surprise).
With others in the cast bringing their comic chops to the horror shenanigans--Richard
Riehle and Patrika Darbo (as a sweet and overly jolly Midwest couple), Joleigh
Fioravanti and Mercedes McNab (as a couple of dimbulb babes) being recorded by
Bill Murray’s bro, Joel Murray (as if he were a legit director; when in
actuality, he just wants to get their tits in multiple shots), with make-up
effects legend John Carl Buechler (as “Jack Cracker”, a fisherman whose
warnings to the group go unheard) and Tony Todd (as “Reverend Zombie”, normally
the one who conducts “swamp tours”) adding cameo value--Adam Green has a wealth
of talent at his disposal to dispose of.
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