HORROR MOVIES 101

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Yes, I saw the previews for Behind the Mask and put it on my Netflix Queue and it did have Robert Englund in it.  It looks pretty good.  I haven't heard of the Tripper, I'm going to have to check that out too.  I agree, comedy and horror together are a great mix.  The Gore in this movie was Extreme but it was the kind where I put my hands over my eyes and had to peek out and laugh.  I loved how he killed the older woman tourist (okay I know that sounds sadistic when I say I LOVED how he killed the woman but I had never seen that in a movie before...YUK).

yojimbo73:

I enjoyed Hatchet as well. I'd gotten away from recent horror because of all the sadistic, torture crap that's been coming out the past few years, but movies like Hatchet, The Tripper and Behind the Mask have brought me back. I love some laughs with my splatter. If I remember correctly, old Robert Englund was in Behind the Mask as well.  I haven't watched Hatchet's commentary yet, but I'd like to think it was purposely tongue in cheek, otherwise it comes up a little short. Either way it was a fun movie.

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Hatchet had a very misleading title and cover, since you only see the hatchet used once. Imagine Texas Chainsaw Massacre where Leatherface chases people around with a baseball bat(and yes, I realize that in TCM you only see the blade hit skin once, but he still uses it a lot).

I enjoyed this one, but it was strange that Robert Englund and Tony Todd got such high billing when they only had one scene each.

Also,  every damn time someone knocked Victor Crowley down, they ran away instead of killing him. I mean, you've already shot him, why not put another couple of bullets in him as you stand over his twitching body instead of running away randomly.

Fun movie, so, sorry if it sounds like I'm dissing it.

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I really understand what you are both saying.  I was thinking the same thing, OKAY, now that he is down on the ground, pick up the hatchet or shovel and chop his head off the chop that up and chop those pieces up and burn them or put them in separate jars and bury them all over the place.  UGH.  And I thought the name Hatchet was very misleading too since, like you said, the elephant-man killer just had the scar on his face and he hardly used a hatchet, it was mostly his bare hands.  But I did enjoy it otherwise and I also thought the acting was really good, if they had bad actors in this, it would have REALLY sucked.  But it cracked me up several times...

jdice31:

[I am not a big fan of Hatchet, I was going in with a loftey expectation and was let down, I wish I viewed it before I heard about it. The man behind the Mask -the Leslie Vernon story was a great movie. It takes a bit from the Last horror Movie and expandes it and brings it into the Slasher Hall of fame world (freddy, jason, Mike, etc). I loved the story and pretext and thought the acting was great. If you haven't viewed it yet please do, it is worth the watch.

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