Hatchet II (2010) [Blu-ray]
Action | Comedy | Horror

Crowley lives

Hatchet II picks up right where the original Hatchet ends, as the quiet but resilient Marybeth (Danielle Harris, the Halloween franchise) barely escapes from the clutches of bayou maniac Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder, the Friday the 13th franchise), who has already slaughtered Marybeth's family and an entire swamp boat full of New Orleans tourists. Upon learning her own family's tie to Victor Crowley from local Louisiana charlatan Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd, the Candyman franchise), Marybeth returns to the swamp with a team of hired guns to exact her revenge, but quickly discovers that not even an army of hunters can stand up to the fury and bloodlust of the legendary Victor Crowley. The unrated Hatchet II serves up a ferocious and exceptionally gory dose of splatterific entertainment with ground-breaking practical make-up effects, a wildly twisted sense of humor, and an even darker and bloodier ride than the first film. Hold on to your pieces!

User Comment: kalebedward from United States, 26 September 2010 • Adam Green gets it. Horror movies are fun. Hatchet 2 may be the funnest horror movie of them all, and to it's slight detriment, the film has so much fun, that we forget that people are being viciously murdered. Once again, Green populates the slasher film with a bevy of extremely likable fodder for Hodder. Hatchet nods in the general direction of it's forefathers, the horror franchises of the eighties, before it takes a belt-sander to what is expected from a slasher film. It is a greatest kills marathon, full of kills you have never seen before. The story expands upon and strengthens the first film and leaves you wanting oh so much more Victor Crowley. No CGI gore. No excruciating torture scenes, just lots and lots of body rippin' and mutalatin'. Go see it, but try and come out with all your pieces.

Summary: Hatchet 2: The Best of the Horror Franchises of the Present.

[CSW] -3- I didn't see the first Hatchet I so I don't have any comparisons to make. However I found this one was an ok gore-fest movie with only enough of a plot to make you happy that Victor Crowley would soon put a whole group of them out of their misery and that the heroine would ignore all sensibilities and instead go for vengeance instead. Read the above review first and then go rent it.
[V3.0-A4.0] MPEG-4 AVC - No D-Box.

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