I never really figured out how some people like splatter films (and even more splatter comics), I don’t get how a slaughter can be fun or what’s the unpredictable element of a serial killer simply unable to die and killing everything walking on two gorgeous legs. All the answers I needed came to me in the form not of a movie but a comic book (recently inspiring a theater play and an upcoming film), HACK/Slash, the absolute massacre!
In every slasher movie, there’s one girl who makes it all the way to the end.
This time it’s Cassie Hack, former high school outcast and daughter of the infamous slasher called The Lunch Lady, the one she had to kill with her own hands after several murders in her school. The slashers are persons who died under violent circumstances, full of hate and anger, and came back to life for their revenge. They despise love, sex, anything that reminds them what they miss and kill innocent (or not) people in, if nothing else, innovative ways! Cassie is their nemesis, a slasher hunter who killed her own mother in her fight against evil, she scouts
HACK/Slash is not a horror comic book; if I had to place it somewhere I’d call it gore humour. Writer and various artists have created this parody of every American cliché known, cheerleaders are cut in pieces, massive murderers roam in the spring break, a pet cemetery comes to life and even Chucky meets Cassie and her ugly friend in a crossover issue. It’s funny, it’s disgusting, it’s ironic and sarcastic in a light way, what the heck, it’s much better than those Jason movies I never got to like! The HACK/Slash series includes the following issues:
HACK/Slash – vol.1 The First Cut
HACK/Slash – Euthanized
HACK/Slash – Girls Gone Dead
HACK/Slash – Comic Book Carnage
HACK/Slash – The Land of Lost Toys
HACK/Slash – Trailers
HACK/Slash – Slice Hard
HACK/Slash - HACK/Slash vs. Chucky
HACK/Slash – The Series #01
HACK/Slash – Final Revenge of Evil Ernie
