It's Academy Awards season, and we're once again being educated
about important world issues, watching real actors give it their
all for Oscar, and feeling redeemed by uplifting stories. Whoop-
de-freaking-do. As any real film fanatic knows, there's only so
much of that stuff you can take. Sometimes you just want to pay
10 bucks and climb aboard a big, loud, scary roller coaster.
Hang in there, horror fans: Following behind such memorable 2006
joy rides as "Hostel," "The Descent" and "Texas Chainsaw
Massacre: The Beginning," the upcoming year is offering an even
more promising mix of sequels, slashers and just plain sick
ideas.  10. "Hatchet" A sleeper hit at last year's Tribeca Film
Festival, this old-school slasher flick is the movie most likely
to give birth to a Freddy or Jason-like horror icon in 2007.
Featuring the tag line "Stay out of the swamp," the film's April
release will unveil Victor Crowley — a deformed man-child whose
love for overalls is rivaled only by his fondness for plunging
razor-sharp we