"Hatchet" dives right in without apology as a comedy/horror film that really tries to be both genres. It's full of over the top gruesome death scenes, head slapping nonsense, and a plot that would be a straight forward horror story if it wasn't for some of the comments and responses that the characters make. My favorite is easily Tony Todd's cameo as the tour guide Reverend Zombie and his reasoning as to why he can't take the two main characters on a swamp tour; perfect delivery and I'm sure he had a blast performing it!
Ben is in New Orleans during Mardi Gras but his heart isn't into partying or having fun; he's still lamenting over his break up with his ex girlfriend. He decides to leave his group of friends to take a swamp tour that he had heard about a year before. His friend Marcus comes along and soon regrets it as they see who is leading the tour and who else is coming along. These include a fake movie producer and two girls who think they are starting in a scandalous video, an older married couple, and a lone woman who is looking for her dad and brother. The tour guide is only leading his second tour and crashes the boat into a submerged tree which forces everyone to abandon ship. On land they come to discover that they are right outside the house where legendary killer Victor Crowley was rumored to have been killed in a fire. It's only a rumor because he's still alive and goes on a murderous rampage, killing the tourists one by one.
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