Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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.

Howthe last reviewers can say "this is a classic" "Wow"? I'll never know!? Also said was "I was surprised at how well written and acted this film is"? The acting was terrible, and writing very bad. With this sort of movie the acting needs to be very good, it was bad! One or two of the actors were just about OK sometimes, otherwise BAD! I was wondering if this was the correct review for this movie or these people watched something else! Or as in many cases it seems with some reviews obviously the person was involved with the movie! I gave it 2 because the idea was OK. I'm trying to pad this review out to warn many of you to avoid it.Summary: Bad Acting, Bad Script, but not a bad idea. Don't believe the positive reviews, this is trash.

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.

I don't usually write reviews online, but I won tickets to a private screening of this movie and I thought it was the least I could do. I wasn't expecting much since I knew that this was a low-budget movie, but I was very pleasantly surprised.The movie is about one of those prank reality shows like "Scare Tactics." They are setting up this guy up so that they can scare him at an abandoned chemical factory that he thinks is haunted. His dad died at the plant, so he is already not completely there. Why they would have thought it was a good idea to make fun of this guy, I have no idea. He looked creepy even before he started to kill people.The fun really starts when they guy thinks that the prank is real and goes crazy. Since the plant is all boarded up, the rest of the crew cannot get out of the building without risking getting hacked up by him. It's a simple plot, but it works really well in a story that takes place in just one really spooky place.HazMat is an uncommon, intense horror/thriller film. This film will leave you on the edge-of-your-seat, rethinking the whole idea of a "practical" joke. There's not one moment when I felt bored or I looked at my watch to see how much time was left. If I have one complaint is that it should have been a little longer, but then maybe it would have dragged. I can definitely see this villain becoming like Jason or Michael Myers, that you want to see coming back to life again and again. ... A definite MUST SEE!