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Fun with Hackley: Axe Murderer
USA 2016
produced by Garrett Hargrove, T.E. Sanders, Trey Huguley, Alan Hackley, Larry McKee, Sharon Hargrove (executive) for Slash Consortium
directed by T.E. Sanders
starring Allen Hackley, Trey Huguley, Garrett Graham, Justin Habersaat, Michelle Ellen Jones, Owen Egerton, Aaron Walther, Lauren J Reed, Mike Fisher, Kerry Beyer, Bobbie Grace, Shelby Graham, Aaron D. Alexander, Kathleen Aeschlimann, Aslan Hollier, Rachael Hellman, Joe Grisaffi, Mary Jo Pehl, Jessie George, Joe Barajas, Jimena Vazquez, T.E. Sanders, Alan Ray, Mariah-Rae Vincent, Christy Hinterlong, Russell Kliebert, Brandi Hester, Jenni Korentzoff, Nate Laningham, Alyssa M. Jiminez, Raphina Austin, Jasmine Vishay, Jay Bowles, Terry Tolleson, Loki D. Wolf, Tyler Sommer, Ali Sabzevari, Jennie Chen, Jeremy Sumrall, Shane Sobon, Jeff Hewitt, Eric Panter, Chuck Vail, Devyn Placide, Ryan Cass
written by Garrett Hargrove, created by Garrett Hargrove, Trey Huguley, T.E. Sanders, Allen Hackley, music by T.E. Sanders, Chuck Vail, Trey Huguley
review by Mike Haberfelner
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As a masked serial killer, Hackley (Allen Hackley) ruled the 1980s,
when his unpredictable axe-killings were just the talk of the town ... but
these are the 2010s, and his methods are no longer that up-to-date and
everything has become ... incorporated - yes, Hackley works a 9 to 5 job
as a serial killer these days where he has to fill out report cards, has
to meet all sorts of quotas, and has to follow company guidelines, however
stupid they are. And even if he is senior to everyone in the company, he
has to obey to the whims of his rather ignorant boss El Matador (Trey
Huguley) and play second fiddle to the perpetual employee of the month
Rival (Justin Habersaat). And despite his company record regarding
killings, he has to undergo job training when he doesn't meet the quota
one month, and take on an elderly cancerous intern (Mike Fisher) - whose
slowburn killing methods freak out even Hackley. And despite all these
humiliations, and despite even killing the one colleague Hackley acutally
liked (Garrett Graham), he fails to keep his job just because his
victim-to-be (Michelle Ellen Jones) dies of a heart attack before he even
manages to lay hands on her. But now things are going too far even for
mild-mannered (as far as a serial killer can be just that) Hackley - and
his revenge will be ... well, unexpectedly bizarre, to say the least ... Fun
with Hackley: Axe Murderer is first and foremost a film that ought to
appeal to slasher fans, as it self-consciously plays with genre rules and
conventions not even the famed retro slasher Scream dreamed of
doing - which is mostly due to Fun with Hackley: Axe Murderer
bravely setting its plot in the corporate world of the 2010s - which might
ask quite a bit of a suspension of disbelief, but it makes sense within
genre boundaries ... and in fact, the film is pretty funny in a macabre
way, as the direction is spot on, the cast seems to have tons of fun, and
the comedy is at its best really funny and even at its worst stays a notch
or two above being just vulgar ... so in all, you might ave to be a genre
fan to really appreciate this film, but if so, you'll very probably have
quite a few really good chuckles.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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