Hatchet (2006)

After the kick-off movie reviewed below, the next film didn't stand much chance of rising to anything approaching the same standard and this one certainly didn't, although I understand that it has been well received at other festivals.  Part of the appeal might have been having Elm Street's Robert Englund and Candyman's Tony Todd in cameo roles plus having four-time Jason Voorhees, Kane Hodder, in the dual role of the unstoppable killer and his father.  The rest of it was really a load of rubbish.  A bunch of unknowns take a "Haunted Bayou" boat tour one evening during Mardi Gras (the film was obviously made pre-Katrina) and are picked off one by one in the traditional gruesome ways.  Apart from conveying very little that one hadn't seen many times before, nearly all of the characters were so gormless that it was hard to give a damn about their survival, in fact one was pleased to see the end of most of them and even more pleased to see the end of the film.