Director: Adam Green
Year: 2010
Country: USA

I was not a fan of Hatchet, Adam Green’s debut horror film. While being touted as a return to old-school American horror, it managed to do nothing to distinguish itself from other contemporary slasher flicks. The characters were contrived, the plot cliche and the gore unimpressive. My experience with Green’s first horror film notwithstanding, I was excited for his next horror film, the “stuck on a ski lift” thriller Frozen. My interest in the film grew as many lauded the film’s ability to invoke levels of tension unheard of in contemporary horror, and while I still had the dreadful Hatchet burned in the back of my head, I kept an open mind and went in expecting a solid thriller. Sadly, the hype got the best of me, and Frozen proved to be obscenely mediocre.

(Read the rest of the review at Horror Squad)

This trailer sold me completely on The Signal, which currently stands as one of my favorite horror films. It’s a damn shame it had be taken down due to the unauthorized use of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day,” covered in by Jon Thomas Hall in a delightfully appropriate rock styling. The Signal also made me realize how awesome an actor AJ Bowen is, and eventually how underutilized he was in House of the Devil, which was, much to the chagrin of most, a very mediocre film. He’s currently filming Hatchet 2 by genre fav Adam Green, and while I don’t have high hopes because Hatchet was pretty terrible, I will shell out too much money for a ticket to see it in the theater because of Bowen.

This trailer is just too fucking excellent, and completely belies the film’s meager $50,000 budget.