Hatchet III

After just one week of shooting this film, Kane Hodder declared it "the hardest job he's ever done". Performing rigorous action and stunts in sweltering Louisiana summer heat and humidity, while wearing thirty pounds of silicone and make-up on his body.

Parry Shen has appeared in all three Hatchet films, but as different characters. In Hatchet (2006), he played Shawn, who worked for the Swamp Tours. In Hatchet II (2010), he played Justin, who was Shawn's brother. Justin also worked for the Swamp Tours. In this third film, he played a paramedic named Andrew. Andrew is not related to Shawn or Justin. A joke is even made in the film about how one of the bodies they find looks like him.

Executive Producer and Writer Adam Green prides the Hatchet films on their "no CGI rule". All make-up effects are done the "old school" way, with prosthetics, make-up, latex, and silicone, in order to give the films their throwback feeling and tone. CGI and digital enhancement is only used for such things as wire removal, or fixing any camera issues that occurred while filming, but never to create the films' outrageous special effects. This movie was no exception to this rule, and Green continually challenged the make-up effects crew by writing crazy death scenes and sequences, that most any other modern production would have brought in computer generated visual effects teams to accomplish.

According to the cast and crew's various tweets and social networking comments, the production for this film was a brutal one. Several crew members spent time in the emergency room, suffering from poisonous bug bites or D.E.E.T. poisoning (a chemical found in bug spray). Severe thunder storms, lightning, rain, heat, and humidity made the swamp location even tougher to shoot in. Production trucks and equipment were stuck under several feet of mud at times. At one point, Adam Green tweeted "I have forty-eight chigger bites from my waist down."

The scripts given to cast and crew for production were each diligently watermarked with the crew member or performer's name and all distributed scripts were missing the film's last five pages. Only Adam Green and B.J. McDonnell knew what the ending would be while in production.