HATCHET II (2010)

HATCHET II (2010)

Tagline: Victor Crowley Lives Again

(Horror, Comedy, Slasher Throw Back) [R]

You mean like a Jason Voorhees or something?

Typically when you are going to try and start a new horror series you don’t wait 4 years until you put your second installment. Hatchet seems to be just fine with this and so naturally we have part III out in 2013. First, however, we have this one. In the last 80’s if you wanted your horror movie to rock, you went out and found Danielle Harris, and all she did was come in and blow people away. Well, the 1st thing HATCHET gets right was bringing her in for this second installment. The 2^nd thing they did right was enlisting practical effects and some cheesy clichés as odes to the slasher flicks of yesteryear. This thing is a little on the gory side for me, and unfortunately, we do not have an ultra-marketable villain. It is above a B-movie grade and there are some nicely written sequences delivered in the humor department.

Next, we get to Danielle who plays Marybeth the daughter of one of the guys who accidentally got Victor Crowley killed, and therefore kinda of forced him to play the revenge card (not really, but so the story goes). Oddly his father who actually swung the axe got to live happily ever after (okay, okay all kidding aside). Danielle’s performance in this is so sub-par even her most loyal fans will notice such a huge difference between HATCHET II and say STAKELAND made just a year later.

Tony Todd (CANDYMAN) plays Reverend Zombie and he is just flat-out annoying as heck and honestly – well I won’t give anything away. It is not shocking this film not only mirrors the great FRIDAY THE 13^TH flicks of the 80s but it also has one of its mainstays (since 1988) Kane Hodder doing all of the dirty work.

This one was not one of my favorites by any means but anyone who liked 80’s to mid-90s horror has been waiting for a series like this for years. 

I give this movie a 3 out of 7. 

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