Adam Green, 'Hatchet II' and 'I Spit on Your Grave'
At last night's Screamfest LA opening, we ran into director Adam Green. His latest, Hatchet II, opened last weekend in select theaters without an MPAA rating but was pulled without explanation - under suspicious circumstances, and in some cases on its very first night.
Green tweeted the bad news to fans on Monday (as reported by us here) and on Tuesday added, "No more news is coming from our camp on this. It's over. Gotta move on and hope this doesn't ever happen again. We need CHANGE."
We asked Green where filmmakers and fans of unrated horror can go from here.
"Between Blu-ray and DVD and all these things, there's a lot of outside the box things you can do too. Plus drive-ins, independent theaters. That's all viable, a lot of people have been doing that forever. But there's no reason why a movie can't play in mainstream cinemas if mainstream cinemas want it."
Green's next project, the kid's movie Killer Pizza, isn't expected to run into much trouble with the MPAA. But what if he wants to return to the slasher genre in the future?
"I'm still kind of beaten and tortured on the ground right now. But I can tell you, if I feel like it I'm going to do the exact same thing again, and I'm going to fight them again. That's what I am, I'm a fighter.
"We need to change the system...I can't do it myself, but if I feel like doing Hatchet 3, again, I'm going to make Hatchet 3 the way I want to make and I'll fight 'em again and that will be that.
"[Hatchet II] got severely messed with, as we all know, and it's unfortunate. But look, I Spit On Your Grave is playing right there [ed note: Green pointed across the lobby of the Mann 6 in Hollywood] unrated. That's great to see and hopefully it does really well. Let's just keep it going."
It seems Green isn't the only one to make the Hatchet II-I Spit On Your Grave connection, as this paid search result was spotted on AOL's Moviefone.com just this morning.
