Hack! (2007)

User Rating:

3.0/10   

Director:

Matt Flynn

Writer:

Matt Flynn (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

Reality Kills.

Plot:

Wanting to raise their grades, a handful of college kids are randomly selected for a field trip to study wildlife, but don't get the chance as cliché horror film-style murders occur.

Plot Keywords:

College | Lesbian | Decapitation | Death By Hook | Film Within A Film

Cast

Danica McKellar	...	Emily
Jay Kenneth Johnson	...	Johnny
William Forsythe	...	Willy
Sean Kanan	...	Vincent King
Juliet Landau	...	Mary Shelley
Justin Chon	...	Ricky
Travis Schuldt	...	Tim
Adrienne Frantz	...	Maddy
Tammy Felice	...	Maddy's Tough Girlfriend
Gabrielle Richens	...	Sylvia
Noah Guy	...	Tatooed Leg Pumper
Kane Hodder	...	First Victim
Burt Young	...	J.T. Bates
Tony Burton	...	Sheriff Stoker
Won-G	...	Q (as Wondgy Bruny)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, nudity, sexuality, language and drug use.

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | UK:18 | Singapore:M18 | Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Autumn Entertainment

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During the shots of Emily talking while supposedly moving at a moderate speed on the boat, it is obvious the boat is stationary as the water directly behind her is hardly moving.

Movie Connections:

References Psycho (1960)

A self-hating horror movie?

This movie is, above all else, confused. It tries to talk you into believing that it's a tribute to classic campy slasher films, it dazzles you with good production design, cinematography and some fairly decent actors, but ultimately it turns to tired slapstick and surrealism without purpose, all courtesy of the only horrifying aspect of this movie; the script! Maybe it isn't a tribute, maybe it's meant as satire or some kind of black comedy? I can't tell! Even if that's the case, it's not funny because the jokes are mostly based around how unfunny horror movies are, and this is clearly one of those unfunny horror movies. Violence is plentiful and graphic, like the genre prescribes, but it is only there as a reference to other films or for purely gratuitous purposes, so in effect it's either unoriginal or holding up the story. The characters are consistently written in a way that at best, makes you not care about them at all and at worst, quietly hoping that they are next in line for swift death. If a bunch of college kids had made this movie and put it on the Internet, it would have been sort of an impressive effort. As a "real" Hollywood movie, it's depressing and begs the question; Who the hell would green-light a script like this? My advice: pick any one of the 20+ classic horror movies that this movie references and watch that again, odds are good that you'll have a better time!