Axe Murdering with Hackley is a Horror Comedy movie by Tim Sanders.
Since The '80s, Hackley (Allen Hackley) has been the biggest name in slasher murder there's been. On top of the world, Hackley practically set the standard by which all future slashers have been judged.
Today, however? Well...
The genre's gone on so long that Hackley seems to have lost his edge. People know how to counter killers now, and Hackley's murder quota's suffering as a result. Doesn't help that his boss at RKS, El Matador (Trey Huguley), is making him stick to tactics and moves that are the main reason he's having so much trouble. Worse, his main opponent at work, Rival (Justin Habersaat), is able to rake in the killings no problem in spite of those limitations.
Either way, Hackley is determined to make Employee of the Month.
The movie was released on May 6th, 2016.
Axe Murdering with Hackley contains examples of:
- Affably Evil: Hackley and his fellow masked killers are a chummy bunch when they're not murdering.
- Ankle Drag: Sometimes, a guy can be seen dragging a human leg by the ankle as they walk by in the office.
- Confession Cam: Hackley's Vlog.
- Disposing of a Body: Hackley is seen doing this numerous times, throwing a dead body into a dumpster.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The killer's first reaction to anyone making them angry in any way (like one of your coworkers sending a fake email to your mom telling her you're ready to come out of the closet) is to kill them.
- Distracted by the Sexy: How the female killer manages to avoid being killed by one of the people Hackley brought to RKS for his murder spree.
- Employee of the Month: The prize Hackley covets. It's seen being awarded to Rival, and Asparagus.
- Expy: No prizes for guessing who Hackley is supposed to be based on.
- Extreme Omnivore: Asparagus. He's once seen eating a piece of paper out of a photo copier.
- He also claims to have eaten a lot of hamsters, which lands him Employee of the Month.
- Flipping the Bird: Hackley and Rival exchange these quite a bit.
- Fright Deathtrap: How Hackley accidentally kills the sheriff's daughter.
- Head Crushing: Hackley kills Rival by squeezing his head between his hands until blood gushes out of it.
- Head Desk: One of Hackley's colleagues does this at a meeting when Mitre Saw starts monologuing.
- Male Gaze: The token female slasher at RKS does this, bending over to pick up a pencil that someone "dropped". This leads to several more falling pencils as a result.
- Malevolent Masked Men: Hackley and a lot of his coworkers wear various masks.
- Moose and Maple Syrup: El Matador is Canadian. He wanted to do a Hockey Player motif for his killer outfit, but someone else beat him to the punch. So he had to slap together the Mexican wrestler thing.
- Offscreen Teleportation: Hackley can do this, being a Stock Slasher Expy of Jason Vorhees. In this day and age, though, people know he can't do this if at least one person keeps an eye on them.
- Old Shame: Hackley views a music video he was in from the 80s as this.
- P.O.V. Cam: In one scene at the start of the film, we see Hackley, from his P.O.V., takes a knife and cut the crusts off of his sandwich.
- Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: Near the start of the movie, we see Hackley take an axe to his alarm clock.
- Rise from Your Grave: In the prologue, after Hackley is supposedly killed, we see his hand burst out of the ground.
- Rustproof Blood: Disccused. In one scene, Hackley states that because blood turns brown when it dries, it tends to look like poop. It also smells, which once cost Hackley a kill because the dried blood smell drove off a couple would-be victims.
- Sex Signals Death: The killers at RKS are contractually obligated to kill anyone who isn't a virgin. This can certainly put a damper on their love lives. They even kill each other once this happens.
- Shout-Out: Deciding who to kill and who not to kill is known in RKS as Schindler's List-ing. You can imagine how awkward that gets when deciding on Jewish victims.
- Shower Scene: The sheriff's daughter is seen doing this on the night that Hackley comes to kill her.
- Shear Menace: The female killer at RKS uses a pair of shears as her weapon.
- Smash Cut: Whenever someone gets on Hackley's nerves, the movie cuts to him throwing a dead body into a dumpster.
- Stock Slasher: RKS is staffed with plenty of them.
- Time Skip: The movie's prologue is stated to happen in 1984-and-a-half. Then it jumps to the Present Day.
- Vocal Dissonance: The female killer at RKS has a very deep voice.
