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Adam Green Talks HATCHET 2, FROZEN

By Heather Wixson

If there’s one word you could never use to describe writer/director Adam Green, it would be slacker.

After a whirlwind year of shooting his chilly emotional thriller FROZEN and supporting Paul Solet’s GRACE (which he helped produce), Green’s now currently in pre-production for his upcoming Anchor Bay sequel HATCHET 2 and gearing up for the Sundance Film Festival premiere of FROZEN later this month. 

And this is only one week into 2010.

How does Green feel about the insanity of his professional life these days?  Fortunate and overwhelmed.

“Everything is moving so fast,” said Green. “If you look at everything going on, the timing with starting HATCHET 2 right now couldn’t be worse.  It’s a problem I would have killed for over the last 10 years all I can do is jump right in and be thankful for getting to make the movie that I want to make.”

Green added, “We’ve been prepping HATCHET 2 since October. As of next week, we’ll film for a few weeks, and then I leave right from set to fly to Utah for Sundance and the FROZEN premiere. Right after that, I fly back to LA and we pick right back up with HATCHET 2. I must be insane!”

Since Green has been able to wait a few years before heading back to the swamp with Victor Crowley, how does he feel about coming back for seconds?

“HATCHET 2 feels like a victory lap for me,” explained Green. “It was supposed to be a complete secret that we were even filming. As much as I was disappointed at first that word got out, I really think it’s cool that people, especially the fans, care so much.  The response has been great, which makes me very grateful.”

One of the biggest complaints in the horror community is that our genre is plagued with an endless stream of sequels and remakes.  I asked Green to talk about the pressure he might have been feeling about delivering the goods of a kickass slasher sequel.

Green said, “Unless we completely forget how to make a movie, HATCHET 2 is gonna deliver.  It’s for fans of the first film, so if you didn’t like the first HATCHET, then stay home and don’t go see HATCHET 2."

“Usually you have to try to appeal to everyone when making a movie, but HATCHET 2 will truly belong to the fans.  To me, it’s almost like one of our Halloween shorts but with an actual budget,” joked Green.

Beyond taking a break, Green credits his work on other types of genre fare as the reason he feels ready to work on HATCHET 2.  For a while, the director was burnt out on anything that was even associated with the project.

“The only reason I can do HATCHET 2 is because I was able to make movies like SPIRAL or FROZEN first,” explained Green. “I needed to do other types of movies because by the time the first HATCHET came out, I almost hated it. I had talked about it to death so it came to the point that it was hard to believe myself when I would talk about it at conventions or screenings. 

“So by taking a break from making that kind of a horror movie and doing more thriller type movies, I feel like I am in a better place as a director.  And now that I have a few years behind me, it’s exciting to get to start work on HATCHET 2. I feel refreshed,” Green added.

With an internet buzz already growing (and Green tweeting from the set already), what kind of dirt is Green willing to give up on HATCHET 2? Turns out, not too much- just yet.

Green said, “Fans should expect that HATCHET 2 will pick up right where the first left movie left off. There was so much we couldn’t explain in the first film- why is Tony Todd only in it for a small scene? Is there more to his character of Reverend Zombie? Why did Robert Englund die so early?  So now, it will all make sense.  This time, we have a little more money and a lot more experience so it will definitely kick some ass.”

“We’ve already been debating when we should show the new Victor Crowley,” added Green. “Whether it should be right out of the gate or if we should wait and reveal him for the first time when the movie comes out.  It’s just really hard to keep anything a secret with the internet these days.”

After saying that, I decided to dig a little deeper and see just how much does internet fodder weigh on Green’s mind when he’s working on a project?  The director feels like sometimes, maybe there’s just a little too much freedom lurking out there on the World Wide Web.

“I don’t really want to see what people say on the sites, honestly. So I try not to read that stuff too much.  Negative criticism is totally fine- I get that my movies may not just be for everyone, so I welcome rational debates.  But when you get those personal comments from people who think they can hide behind a keyboard and say whatever they want, those are hard to shrug off.  And there’s just too much of that going on out there,” Green said.

There’s one internet debate surrounding FROZEN though that seems to please Green to no end- whether or not the movie could really happen (In FROZEN, three young skiers are abandoned mid-air on a ski lift chair during a blizzard and have to figure out a way to survive the weekend until the slopes open up again).

Green said, “I actually love the fun debates around the FROZEN scenario, telling us that it could never happen.  Trust me, we did our homework for FROZEN and even an episode of Mythbusters looked at whether or not you could get off a ski lift stuck in the air at this height.”

“And I can tell you for a fact that you just can’t do it without getting physically destroyed,” Green added. “Suddenly, you do a movie like this and everyone turns into Indiana Jones and can get out of any situation.  I just say to those people, if you can do get stuck on a ski lift in the air and can make it down without hurting or killing yourself in the same conditions, then I’ll be the first in line to give you a reward.  But it is impossible. Trust me.”

So, other than death-defying odds at survival, what can audiences expect when FROZEN debuts at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24th?  Green says a movie that is about as far away from the over- the-top gorefest that was HATCHET.  This is truel horror, right down to the bone.

“FROZEN is at the completely opposite end of the spectrum of the horror world when you think of HATCHET,” explained Green. “It’s raw, it’s emotional.  I don’t even call it a horror movie. I call it a terror movie because that’s what FROZEN is-it taps into a lot of people’s worst fears, like isolation, abandonment, and death.”

“FROZEN will hit you right at your very core,” Green added. “I can promise that much.”


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