ADAM GREEN’S “HATCHET II†CARVES OUT ADVANCE MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS AT AMC THEATRES®NATIONWIDE
Rabid Horror Fans Will Enjoy the Widest Release of An Unrated Horror Film in More Than 25 Years
Orland Park, IL (Sept. 15, 2010) – Dark Sky Films, a division of MPI Media Group, announced today that following the onslaught of demand from fans nationwide, Adam Green’s unrated HATCHET II will now debut at midnight (12:01 a.m. Thursday night/Friday morning) on Oct. 1 in AMC Theatres across the country. Pre-sales for both the 12:01 a.m. showing and an evening showing on Oct 1 are now available for purchase at www.amctheatres.com.
Through its AMC independentâ„¢ program, AMC Theatres will exhibit HATCHET II in top markets in the United States including: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Detroit, Seattle, Cincinnati, Columbus, Miami, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Atlanta, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Baltimore, St. Louis, Orlando, Tallahassee and Tampa. A list of specific theaters in these markets is listed below.
The announcement about the HATCHET II midnight screenings on Oct. 1 was made jointly by AMC Theatres and MPI Media Group. Vitagraph Films will serve as the theatrical distributor.
A tribute to the old-school slasher movies of the 80’s, HATCHET II is the follow-up to the popular original film, which was released theatrically in 2007 and became a sleeper-hit, gaining a wide following on DVD.  The cast of HATCHET II features a cavalcade of horror movie icons including Danielle Harris (HALLOWEEN) and Kane Hodder (FRIDAY THE 13th), who reprises his role as serial killer Victor Crowley. Also starring are Tony Todd (CANDYMAN), R.A. Mihailoff (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) and Tom Holland (CHILD’S PLAY).
HATCHET II debuted in late August in London at Fright Fest, the U.K.’s premiere horror and fantasy film festival. The U.S. premiere is scheduled for Sept. 24 at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.
ABOUT HATCHET II
Just as the 80’s had their signature murderous maniacs—HALLOWEEN’s Michael Myers of Haddonfield and FRIDAY THE 13th’s Jason Voorhees of Camp Crystal Lake—the original HATCHET marked the arrival of the latest and most lethal of the genre’s stalking murderers: Victor Crowley, a crazed backwoods killer stalking the bayous of New Orleans. HATCHET II picks up right where the 2007 original film ends, as Marybeth (Danielle Harris from HALLOWEEN) escapes from the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling killer Crowley (Kane Hodder from FRIDAY THE 13th). Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact her revenge against Crowley.