I like the idea behind HazMat. It tells the story of a reality TV show which pranks it's victim with a scary scenario, but in this instance it all goes terribly wrong.Beyond that sadly it falls into the realm of a generic slasher but there are a few nice touches to keep it relatively fresh.By no means is HazMat a good film but you can do a lot worse and considering its budget it actually looks fairly solid.The Good: Quite a good concept The Bad: Leaves a couple of frustrating questions unanswered Things I learnt from this movie: Even when there is only one psycho killer and a large number of you it still makes sense to hide because duh!

Jacob is a nice but rather disturbed guy who is obsessed with chemical factories, especially the one where his father was killed, he thinks it is haunted. His friend Adam puts him on a pranking TV show without realizing the harm it will do. The crew sets up in the chemical factory and scares him, but the joke backfires and soon the crew, Adam and two girls are trapped within the factory with Jacob coming for them dressed in a gas mask and wielding an ax.HazMat wasn't very scary and used excessive gore that was irrelevant to the story. The acting was pretty bad as was the soundtrack, but the plot was very original. Cross the 1997 TV movie Goosebumps Welcome to Dead House with the 1981 slasher My Bloody Valentine and you'd get something like this. It's okay to watch maybe once, but I think it could have been better. One thing I did really like was that although a chemical factory was involved, there was no dopey happy-hippie environmental message preached to us in the movie. I was rooting for Jacob throughout the film though, I mean, it's hard to feel sorry for a TV crew and group of so-called friends who decide to prank a boy in the same chemical factory where his father was killed, that's very cruel of them to do and I was hoping they'd all end up dead.

Go ahead and assume that all the reviews on here are either from friends, family or people who worked on this because they contain nothing but lies. This isn't a "Classic", it isn't "Well Acted" and it definitely isn't even remotely scary. It's painful to watch.I am a huge fan of horror and specifically the slasher sub-genre. I love a good masked killer stalking and killing people. This movie basically went out of its way to be as unenjoyable as possible. The killer isn't interesting, scary, or fun and they backstory is pointless and makes no sense. There is literally no reason for the character to go crazy because of this prank. He is played up before he is actually on-screen as being some quiet, unassuming, dark and disturbed individual. When we finally meet him, he is just some rejected "Real World" cast member who behavior like a child. He acts excited to be in a place that is supposedly scary and haunted and where his dad died (another plot point they just brush over with minimal explanation). He snaps and starts killing everyone in the cheapest hazmat suit, in the most generic way possible. He just hits them half heartedly with an axe.... over and over again. To every character. There is no originality to be found anywhere within this movie.The characters are some of the most unlikable people I have encountered in a long time. They must all be friends of the director because they seem straight out of "D-bag and Hoodrat Casting". Not a single one does even a decent job of delivering their lines, let alone being even close to relatable. The two female "Co-Conspirators" mumble through their lines and are so annoying and catty that you are praying they are the first to go. They have no business being in front of a camera. The sound guy is just so awkward, his delivery of awful line after awful line made me cringe. I was embarrassed for these actors. The biggest crime this "film" commits is just being plain boring. Nothing happens... ever. Everyone hides in a locked room, they see the killer somewhere in the building, they leave the room, someone gets killed and they run back into the room. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. The characters/acting were so terrible that by the end I didn't care who lived or died, I was so bored I just wanted it to end. How can a movie that is 1hr 20min feel this long!Its clear the writer/director has no vision and absolutely NO passion for the genre. Its offensive as someone who loves horror to see someone create such a cheap product and then pimp their friends out to give it glowing reviews. I was more than disappointed. Shame on the cast for wasting everyones time with this utter nonsense. DO NOT WATCH!!!

I won tickets to a private Screening of this film. I'm not a huge slasher fan since I find them mostly comedic but since it was free, I went. Wow, was I surprised! Yes, I guess technically this is a slasher. It has a very scary guy with an axe killing people so it qualifies. But it has a very cool back story about the abandoned warehouse where it takes place that makes it also like a ghost story. Then there are real characters. Not just a bunch of horny teenagers who (one by one) drink or do drugs, have sex, and get killed. These are real people who you like and care when they die. You even care about the bad guy. He's not just some faceless killer. You get to know him before he starts hacking up people. Finally, the film also has some very funny dialogue that thankfully was intentional. Overall, I really enjoyed this movie and highly recommend it to anyone who wants a smart slasher for a change.