  Feb 24, 2007  chop chop  The teaser trailer for Adam Green's
Hatchet is now online, and you can watch it right here.  The
film, about some horny teens who run into a cuckoo nutso maniac
deep in the heart of Louisiana swampland, is being touted (and
is touting itself) as "old school American horror", a sort-of
response to the glut of remakes (of both American and Asian
descent) currently on offer. It's interesting that there's so
much circle-jerking going on in Hollywood horror cinema right
now that what appears to be a straight-up early-'80s style
slasher flick seems like a fresh idea. By "interesting", I might
mean "sad".  Hatchet will hit theatre screens on September 7.
Another terribly interesting point of interest is the shirt the
dude on the left is wearing in this pic:  You New England-based
hipsters out there might recognize the logo from Newbury Comics,
a store that 1) sells more CDs than comics, and 2) can boast
your very own Final Girl as an ex-employee. As Newbury Comics
gets a shout-out, I supp