Hatchet (2006) on Netflix
Ben and his friend Marcus join a haunted swamp tour in New Orleans with a Minnesota couple, two models and Marybeth. When the boat sinks, they hear the legend of Victor Crowley.
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Plot summary
During Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Ben and his best friend Marcus find a swamp tour closed because its guide was sued, and board a boat run by Shawn, an inexperienced guide. With Jim and Shannon Permatteo, a Minnesota couple, models Misty and Jenna, their agent Shapiro and Marybeth, they head into the bayou. A hermit, Jack Cracker, warns them to leave, and nobody listens. The boat sinks, and an alligator bites Jim as they abandon it. Marybeth recognizes a shack as the old Crowley house and recounts how Victor Crowley, a deformed man, died when his father Thomas hit him in the head with a hatchet by accident while pulling him out of a burning house. She says Victor's spirit wanders the bayou and kills anyone who comes near, but the others call it an urban legend.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hatchet (2006)
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- Director Adam Green based Victor Crowley's backstory on a scary story he made up as an eight-year-old camper at Camp Avoda in 1983, after counselors warned kids that a figure called Hatchet-Face would come get them near a certain cabin.
- Producer Sarah Elbert had Adam Green and cinematographer Will Barratt shoot a teaser trailer in New Orleans, narrated by a friend's young daughter, before a full script even existed, and the teaser's warm reception let Green raise the money to make the film.
- The film's festival screenings sold out so completely that theaters had to bring in extra folding chairs and let people sit in the aisles, and it went on to win the audience award for Best Picture plus jury prizes for Best Actor (Kane Hodder) and Best Special Effects.
- Hatchet reportedly earned $6 million in U.S. video rentals within just three weeks of release and went on to sell more than 597,022 home-video units in North America worth $8,262,721.
- Hatchet was shot for just $1.5 million, with production centered around Sable Ranch in Santa Clarita starting April 25, 2005.
