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Hatchet
.	Hatchet Directed by: Adam Green Written by: Adam Green Starring: Kane Hodder, Joel Moore, Tamara Feldman, Mercedes McNab, Parry Shen, Joel Murray, Joleigh Fioreavanti, Patrika Darbo and Robert Englund as Sampson Genre: Horror / Comedy Runtime: 90 minutes Year: 2006 Tagline: It's Not A Remake. I'ts Not A Sequel. And It Isn't Based On A Japanese One.

Plot

Hatchet follows the story of a young guy named Ben (played by Joel Moore), who just got dumped by his girlfriend and can't stop thinking about her. To take his mind off this, he and his friend Marcus (played by Deon Richmond) decide to go on a swamp tour at night. But when their boat suddenly brakes down, Ben, Marcus and the other passengers have to go by foot. And that's where they discover the horrible legend of Victor Crowley (played by Kane Hodder), a horribly disformed man who then kills them one by one. Can they survive the night?

Robert's Englund's character Paul Sampson is introduced at the start of the film. On one night Sampson and his son Ainsley are hunting for alligators. Sampson is a hardass, who hates it when his son does something stupid and often calls him names, such as 'queer'. When Ainsley then leaves the boat to take a piss and comes back, he discovers Sampson has been torn apart by someone or something. We later discover that this was the work of Mr. Victor Crowley.

Hatchet is a horrorfilm by writer and director Adam Green and it calls itself "Old school American Horror". No remake, no sequel and not based on a Japanese one. Special effects artist John Carl Buechler, who directed the seventh Friday the 13th film, did the special make-up effects for this film and Kane Hodder, the actor who played Jason Voorhees in that film, is the one who plays the killer Victor Crowley.
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Trivia

Robert plays the part of Paul Sampson.

Robert, Tony Todd (Candyman, Final Destination) and Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th 7-10) were also seen together on screen in Wishmaster, the 1997 horrorfilm by Robert Kurtzman.

In the 2003 comedy Nobody Knows Anything, Robert also plays a character named Sampson.

While they are hunting for a killer alligator, Robert's character Sampson says to Joshua Leonard's character Ainsley "don't make me throw you in the swamp now". In Tobe Hooper's 1977 horrorfilm Eaten Alive Robert's character gets thrown into a swamp, where he meets a killer crocodile.
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Quotes

"Sshhh. Shut your hole!"

"Keep still, Ainsley. I think she's back!"
"What should I do?"
"Don't make a sound. Stay right there."

"Oh, come on man, I can't go like this."
"And why in the hell not?"
"Because it's weird with you sitting there like that."
"Just keep it down, would ya?!"
"Ain't no matter what I say, it's 'shut up, Ainsley' or 'you're queer, Aisnley' or 'why can't you be more like your sister, Ainsley'".
"I said 'shut up', you little queer!!"
"See? See that? ... Asshole."
"What did you say, boy?"
"Nothing."
"Well, don't make me throw you in the swamp, now."
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