With Adam Green about a month from unleashing his psychological snow horror FROZEN, the good dude has recently etched a lengthy retrospective Myspace blog, professing everything he underwent in 2009. He talks about producing pal Paul Solet’s GRACE, his participation in the hilarious Halloween short “Jack Chop,” and of course, what most of us want to hear about, details regarding HATCHET 2.
Since the blog is Bible length, let’s just leap into some excerpts, shall we…
On HATCHET 2, Green notes:
“Though a sequel was always in the cards (the first one was shot and especially “ended” in a way that was conducive to making a sequel) I needed to go do other things before I would be able to go back that way and let Victor Crowley loose again. As cliché as it may sound, the first HATCHET was a selfish film. I thought of it and invented Victor Crowley when I was only eight years old, so twenty or so years later when I got the chance to shoot it, I merely made the type of movie I wanted to see on the big screen again. But after all of the battles I fought along the way (some were won, many were lost) it was the community of horror fans that carried HATCHET over the finished line. A literal “army” of friends, brothers, and sisters that I never knew I had that rallied behind it and (even without the proper financial support in marketing from it’s distributor) turned HATCHET into one of the biggest successes worldwide of the last decade.
I’ve done conventions and film festivals everywhere and seen firsthand the love that the fans have for what we did. I’ve sat through theatrical screenings of HATCHET with sold out auditoriums of kids and adults that can say every line along with the cast. And while creatively I am chomping at the bit to get back to Honey Island Swamp and finish what we started, this time around it’s not just about me anymore, it’s about YOU. It gives me great joy to say that HATCHET 2 is for fans of HATCHET 1 and those fans only. It’s going to be everything you want the sequel to be. Didn’t like the first film? Excellent. Skip this one then, you’re not invited to our party. Liked the first one? You’ll love this. Surprises, plot twists, and swamp boat loads full of gore await you next Fall!”
Pretty dope shite! But don’t judge your opinion on a pair of paragraphs, check out the entire screed over THIS WAY.
Remember, Green’s FROZEN hits Feb. 5th.