Hatchet III

Plot synopsis:
The film picks up immediately after the end of the last film, with Marybeth Dunston (Danielle Harris) blowing off the head of Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder) with a shotgun. She walks away and comes across the bodies of Vernon and John, where she hears a somehow still alive Victor in the woods. Marybeth starts up the chainsaw and prepares for a fight, but is grabbed by Victor, whose head is bloody but reattached. Marybeth puts her arm through his bloody face, and he falls backwards onto the chainsaw, cutting him down the middle and in half. After shooting Victor's head to make sure he is dead this time, Marybeth is satisfied.
She walks back into the city, bloodied and disorientated. She walks into the Jefferson Parish Police Department, immediately having guns drawn on her. Upon discovery of the twenty to thirty bodies at Honey Island Swamp, she is placed as the prime suspect in the murders by Sheriff Fowler (Zach Galligan), even after telling him numerous times about the events of the last two films. The Sheriff heads out to the swamp with the paramedics and fire department, leaving Deputy Winslow (Robert Diago DoQui) in charge of the station until he gets back.
Amanda Fowler (Caroline Williams), the Sheriff's ex-wife, journalist and an expert about the legend of Victor Crowley, comes into the station to interview Marybeth about what happened, telling Marybeth she wants to help, otherwise Marybeth will be tried and executed for what happened at Honey Island Swamp. After retelling the events of the previous two films to Amanda, Amanda tells her that Victor Crowley is a repeater, set to relive the night he died, looking for his father and that he will keep coming back unless he gets what he wants: his father. She tells Marybeth that her father, Sampson Dunston, was the one that came up with the idea to start the fire many years ago and tried to get him to deliver Thomas Crowley's ashes to Victor over the past several years, only to be dismissed numerous times. Since he's dead and she's Sampson's bloodline, only she can put an end to Victor Crowley. Marybeth doesn't believe her, continuously declaring that she killed Victor Crowley the night before.
At Honey Island Swamp, the body of Victor Crowley is bagged and tagged and put into the ambulance boat. When the paramedic, Randy (Sean Whalen) is distracted, Victor reanimates and blows Randy's head off with a defibrillator. Victor then escapes back to his house. Deputy Hamilton (Jason Trost) goes to investigate and goes to the boat where Victor appears and kills him by hacking his head in half. Victor then kills 7 other fire department officials and paramedics off-screen, and 4 other people, leaving Andrew (Parry Shen), Rick and another missing paramedic alive. Back at the station, upon hearing the medical team getting killed on the radio, Amanda convinces Deputy Winslow to let Marybeth out of jail and help her save everyone at Honey Island Swamp.
Back at the swamp, in comes the SWAT team, led by Tyler Hawes (Derek Mears) and consists of five others: four armed men and one armed woman named Dougherty (Rileah Vanderbilt). Hawes takes over the operation from Fowler and leads them to the Crowley house, where an officer is killed. After he throws the corpse out of the shed, Crowley kills Elbert(Diane Ayala Goldner). Crowley ambushes the SWAT team and they futilely shoot Crowley as he kills all but Hawes and Dougherty. Hawes tries tackling Crowley but is in turn pinned against the shed and has his skull and spine ripped out. While Rick catches Victor's attention, Deputy Schneiderman (Cody Blue Snider) takes the opportunity to fire a rocket launcher at Crowley,but misses and hits Rick instead, killing him. The resulting explosion blows up the Crowley house, destroying it and covering Victor in the rubble. When Schneiderman begins to celebrate, Victor appears from the wreckage and throws a piece of rubble into Schneiderman's back. He then proceeds to kills Schneiderman by ripping his arms off and drowning him in a puddle. Dougherty, Andrew and the Sheriff run for it. Before running, the Sheriff manages to slow Crowley down by shooting in the chest with a handgun.
Meanwhile, Amanda has Winslow take her and Marybeth to the house of Abbott McMullen (Sid Haig), Victor Crowley's racist long distant cousin and only living blood relative who possesses the ashes of Thomas Crowley. When he declines to give up the ashes, Amanda holds him at gunpoint and leaves with the ashes. Back at Honey Island Swamp, the other paramedic is chased by Victor Crowley when he hides behind the canoe which is revealed to be the one from the first movie. It is the canoe from the first film because there, Ben (Joel David Moore), who is now revealed to still be alive, was in there, clinging to life with his left arm ripped off. As he begs for help, Victor throws the hatchet at Ben, finally killing him. Before Victor can kill the Paramedic, an alligator comes out of the swamp and pulls the paramedic into the swamp to his death.
Victor resumes chasing the Sheriff, Andrew and Dougherty and corners them in the water ambulance with Randy's corpse. They barricade themselves in and the Sheriff calls for the National Guard on the ambulance's radio, telling them they're being attacked by crazed gunmen. The National Guard tells them they'll be there in ten minutes. Just as they settle down and think everything's safe, Victor begins to saw his way through the boat wall with the gas powered belt sander. The Sheriff tells them not to move, if they try to leave, they'll get killed, while Andrew thinks they should leave while he's busy cutting through the wall. Amanda, Deputy Winslow and Marybeth arrive at the Swamp outside the burned down Crowley house. Amanda calls out for Victor, telling him they have his father. Upon hearing his ex-wife's voice, Sheriff Fowler attempts to leave, only to be grabbed by Victor and beheaded with the belt sander; his arms then move around in the air before collapsing. Andrew and Dougherty are trapped in the boat with Victor on the other side of the broken door. Dougherty attempts to slowly get the Sheriff's gun, but Victor grabs and pulls her through the hole on the door, which disembowels her. Andrew smartly remains in the boat, keeping himself out of sight of Victor.
Victor goes back to his destroyed home and finds Amanda and Deputy Winslow there but refrains from attacking when he sees the ashes. Marybeth offers Victor his father's ashes and apologizes for what her father did to him. Victor proclaims "Daddy" (his only word) upon seeing the ashes. When he approaches to take the ashes, Deputy Winslow mistakes it for Victor going to attack Marybeth, and so shoots him down, but Victor rises back up, and rips apart Winslow's chest when his back is turned. Amanda grabs the urn and rolls it back to Marybeth, telling her to try it again, as she attempts to grab Winslow's gun, but Victor grabs Amanda and rips her head off. Victor then knocks Marybeth over and impales her on a tree branch, seriously injuring her. Just when Victor picks up a machete to finish Marybeth off, Marybeth smashes the urn over Victor's head, spreading his father's ashes all over him, and causing him to collapse and melt. With the last bit of her strength, she grabs one of the SWAT team's guns and blows his remains away, finally killing Victor Crowley once and for all. The National Guard then arrives and Andrew, now free of danger, emerges from the boat and signals the helicopters. Just as the screen cuts to black, one final shot of Marybeth gasping for air is shown, leaving the audience to wonder if she will live or die.

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Review:
Still, the first half hour features a great mix of gags and gore including a glorious cameo from Adam Green himself.The cast is a smörgåsbord of actors from horror movies which we watched before and loved.
http://www.plentyofhorror.com/ The Hatchet Franchise has been one of the best modern day Horror Franchise's in my personal opinion, since the day's when Freddy,Michael, and Jason were wreaking all havoc on your screens and haunting your nightmares!Hatchet 1 & 2 was directed by the creator Adam Green while for the 3rd instalment he handed the director duties to his loyal camera operator and new comer to the big chair behind the camera BJ McDonnell, But even with McDonnell directing Adam Green still wrote the screenplay, so basically limiting the direction a new director could take the franchise, but BJ McDonnell still did a pretty damn good job with his limitations!The movie starts off immediately where the second one finished off with a great horrific gory violent scene between Marybeth and Victor Crowley which ends pretty sweet!
don't wanna ruin it for you like other sites may be doing with there review so i'll stop there.The Movies about a search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.
A Couple Laughs if your twisted in the head like I may be, but one thing this movie was missing that every slasher film should have is The Titties!
An all-star horror film cast, bringing the old geezers back to us one more time, all of them together, you could say you enjoyed the first just for this reason alone!2nd part, not that great.
Definitely a great ending, a nice series, and a character, Victor Crowley, to be remembered!.
I'm reminded of its predecessor, a dull and gory affair that emphasized on the monotony of the horror genre, and showed that even if you bill yourself as a favorable homage to the films of the eighties that you'll need to work on not having familiarity breed contempt.Hatchet III, however, is simply fun as we revisit (and hopefully for the final time) the swamps of New Orleans where Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder) lives.
We begin immediately where Hatchet II left off (just like with that film, respectively), where Marybeth (Marybeth Dunston) escapes the swamplands only to be arrested at the police station for coming in bloodied and with a weapon after fighting off Crowley.
However, Crowley is still alive in the woods, and accompanied by an investigative journalist who is blacklisted for believing in the man and a police officer, Marybeth and the rest of the police force venture out to the swamps to take out Crowley once and for all.Hatchet II was a little redundant and smothering with its endless obsession with gore and violence, and its dizzying plot developments that lacked pacing and suspense.
Hatchet III is the closest thing to slowburn horror in the slasher genre I've seen recently, giving the film enough time to build up adequate suspense before the arrival of the long-awaited madman.
It's fair to say the "catch the killer" plot with an abundance of police officers and methods of blunt force is overdone and repetitive, but I find this to be is more competent approach to a sequel rather than an approach that truly does bring a hatchet-job to a solid idea.The film was directed by BJ McDonnell and was penned and financed by the franchise's creator, Adam Green, whose film Frozen I named one of the best horror films of the year in 2010.
All the films run at a concise eighty minutes, give or take, and they all feature enough gore and inanity to satisfy on some level.With the third installment, Green has reconnected with his footing, which is a great mix of gratuitous gore and stable plotting; and, not to mention, terrific performances by the likes of Derek Mears and Sid Haig (who gives probably the best performance since Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects).Starring: Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams, Derek Mears, and Sid Haig.
The open ending of course makes it possible to start with Part 4 as Danielle Harris (Marybeth) could become the new killer, or am I wrong.
Well, "Hatchet III" is essentially the same as the previous two parts, slasher movie a la the good old days.
If you have seen either (or both) of the previous two "Hatchet" movies, then you know exactly what you are in for here and what you will get.Is that a bad thing then?
If you, however, enjoy being challenged and want something to think about, then "Hatchet III" is not the best of choices.The story pretty much picks up where part II left off, and it is a nice continuation of the story, plus there were some nice cameo appearances as well.
The story in a nutshell; the ghost of Victor Crowley (played by Kane Hodder) is still on a murdering rampage in his overgrown swamp where he kills and mutilates anyone who gets onto his land.
And it is up to Marybeth (played by Danielle Harris) to put an end to the murdering maniac with the secret that is bestowed upon her.Essentially, the storyline is straight forward, predictable at times, but enjoyable enough for this particular genre of movie.
But it is cool that he has returned three times for the role of misshapen Victor Crowley.I enjoyed the movie, and there is a fair amount of blood and gore in the movie to satisfy most gorehounds out there.
Last week I saw all 3 back to back and it could easily fit all these 3 movies into one full movie, I loved first movie, It's had gore, it some Nudity and it's some nice tongue in cheek moment that I loved everything about it!In 2010 I could not wait to see Hatchet 2, I got hopes up little to high, cause, I didn't like, I found that it was tone down some bit, I found it less gory and it took while for movie to get going after the boring middle part and with no humour.I didn't really get my hope for this one, Cause, I knew if I did , I would be disappointed by this.For me Hatchet 3 I found just little more fun and a bit better then Hatchet 2.I loved the opening of the movie, that is one hell of way to start and I loved very gory opening in this movie.I think movie a lot more better pace then second movie, there not many of Jump scenes in this movie like Number 2 and calmer scenes don't seem to drag on and I was not bored with this movie at all.The side-plot of the movie could have been better but it okay and I really enjoyed the last few scenes in the movie.I loved those effect in the last few scenes, it was very gooey, I did not expect that but I did find little silly how it happened.Improvement on second movie but I felt they were missing the some of the dark Humour that made first one a lot more fun.6/7 out of 10 really good sequel.
'HATCHET III': Four Stars (Out of Five)The third installment in the popular slasher film series (that began in 2006 with the cult classic original) about an unkillable and deformed sociopath, named Victor Crowley, lurking in the Louisiana Swamp and killing anyone who comes across his path.
He's played (in all three films) by Kane Hodder, who is most well known for playing 'Jason Voorhees' multiple times in the 'FRIDAY THE 13TH' series (which is fitting because Crowley seems like kind of an homage to the Voorhees character and is a very similar unstoppable man/creature).
Scream queen Danielle Harris returns to play the lead heroine, Marybeth, for the second time (after replacing Tamara Feldman from the original film).
The movie is just more of the same, as the other two films, but if you're a fan of the franchise you're sure to love it!The film, like the last installment, picks up right where the previous film left off; with Marybeth (Harris) killing Victor Crowley (Hodder).
At the same time Marybeth teams with Amanda, for one last attempt to destroy Victor Crowley once and for all.The movie is once again full of gratuitous violence and gore but it's so ridiculously over-the-top that's it not even disturbing or disgusting to me.
Like I said it's almost the exact same content again (as the last film at least) but it's still fun and original, in the new ways it comes up with to kill people.
Your carrying a weapon and a piece of somebody's head and the best you got for me as an alibi is some kind of urban legend?" Marybeth (Harris) has finally killed Victor Crowley.
But he's silent all the way through as he butchers his cast-mates, so he could hardly 'save' the film.The one thing I have to say was that the gore/kills were good.
Along for the ride this time around are a cast of horror vets including Caroline Williams of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Derek Mears of the Jeepers Creepers films and a few others.
The opening attack in the swamp is a great continuation, but it also sets up the first of the many encounters here where the recovery team meets their fate on the river-boat, the resulting massacre in the swamps and finally the film's best parts where the SWAT team is targeting the killer in here through some utterly fantastic action scenes where their weaponry is brought to bear on his hideout which results in a frantic firefight in the jungle, a series of blazing encounters where he just annihilates the entire troupe and being forced to using a bazooka in the situation all to no avail as he continues the assault on them.
Likewise, the suspense from their trek through the dim, eerie swamps at the beginning makes for quite an enjoyable time, as well as allowing for a great break against the unrelenting violence, and coupled with the grisly humor throughout here and the strong story that ties the series together all makes this one truly a lot of fun.
Director of previous Hatchet films Adam Green wrote this powerful entry in the tremendously effective series but gave BJ McDonnell a chance to try his hand at directing and the result is a masterpiece of this franchise.
I'll be the first to admit that I am not the biggest Hatchet fan in the world; I find them a bit contrived and the CGI blood & guts is something I'm not too keen on, but I can appreciate that they have a sense of fun and a smidgen of of old school slasher about them.This third instalment in the series provides us with more of the stuff we saw in the first 2; some decent kills, plenty of creative beheadings and a few good moments of tension.
A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and Marybeth (Danielle Harris) learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder) haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.If you were to judge by the ratings on the Internet Movie Database, you would think that "Hatchet" was a dud and the sequels are no better.
The third film is pretty much what you would expect from the third installation in a lesser known horror series, its obviously a bit more low budget than the previous movies and it just doesn't even almost compare to the original.One thing I have enjoyed about the Hatchet movies is that they pick up right where the previous movie left off.
The gore effects are something you would expect from a micro budget horror film, but they do kinda make up for that by giving us tons of kills.One positive thing I can say about the film is that it contains some pretty cool cameos.
A lot of unexpected characters show up and give pretty hilarious performances."Hatchet 3" is not a terrible movie, its a fairly entertaining low budget slasher flick.
I would like every film student to watch the Hatchet series.
A Few Flaws but Overall Good Gory Fun. Hatchet III (2013)** 1/2 (out of 4)The third film in the series picks up right after the previous one ended.
Marybeth (Danielle Harris), bloodied and beaten, walks into a police station where she announces that she killed Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder).
Soon the SWAT teams goes out looking for his body but realizes he's alive and the only one who might know how to truly kill him is a reporter (Caroline Williams) who teams up with Marybeth to put an end to it all.
I actually thought this one here was slightly better than the previous film on certain levels but the one thing really lacking here are creative kills.
The only problem is that the kills simply aren't that creative and a lot of times we have simple things like heads being ripped off and then blood shooting out in all sorts of directions.
80s horror has the survivors of two HALLOWEEN films, THE Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 meeting the killer from Friday THE 13th but then we get Derek Mears who played Jason in the Friday THE 13TH remake getting to go up against Hodder.
Victor Crowley is an undead hatchet wielding villain with a Jason Voorhees complex.The nice thing about this Friday 13th knock off is its knows its B grade and plays to these strengths.
The first film is still the best, of course, and the only one I'd consider watching again; the problem with these sequels is that they simply retread the original plotting with a few twists to try to bring originality to it, but it doesn't work.Mary Beth thinks she's managed to kill vicious bayou murderer Victor Crowley for good, only for him to return from the grave once again seeking vengeance.
Meanwhile, the sheriff organises a posse to go into the bayou and take down the killer for good...HATCHET III is another excuse for gory effects and the film is chock-full of gooey death scenes which take extreme to a new level.
I love a good horror plot and often look past the "B" actors and try to enjoy the movie.
Hatchet III picks up were part II left us--Marybeth trying to kill Crowley.
Despite shooting Victor Crowley point-blank in the head with a shotgun, ramming her fist into what remains of his face, and pushing him onto a chainsaw, Marybeth (Danielle Harris) doesn't stop the cursed maniac from returning to kill again the very next night.
To end the horror once and for all, she must break the curse by returning to the swamp and giving Crowley what he wants: the remains of his long-dead father.If you enjoyed the comedy-tinged, splatter-drenched silliness of the previous two Hatchet movies, then there's no reason at all for you not to be entertained by this third chapter: let's be honest, they don't exactly try to reinvent the wheel.
Director BJ McDonnell (taking over the reins from Adam Green) knows exactly what his audience demands—more over-the-top splatter, more cheesy dialogue, and a cast featuring even more familiar genre faces (Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams, Sid Haig, Derek Mears)—and he delivers it in spades, Crowley's rampage resulting in countless creative and very gruesome deaths.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb..
Character development - None.The sole purpose of this movie was to line up people like ducks and watch them get killed.
This story picks up with Marybeth (Danielle Harris) "killing" Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder) again.
Like Jason, Victor never dies so you can figure out the rest.Sid Haig has a bit part in this film having comedic "Paula Deen moments." I did not enjoy this as much as the one with Tony Todd.
Picking up exactly where part II leaves off, Marybeth (Harris) is still trying to make sure Victor Crowley (Hodder) won't return from the dead.
I mean, it was OK but a few things didn't make it as good!Hatchet III picks up from where the 2nd one ended, Marybeth kills Victor with her shotgun!
A search and recovery team head into a haunted swamp to pick up the pieces of extras from the last movie.Scream queen Danielle Harris learns the secret to ending the curse that has left Victor Crowley/Jason Voorhees haunting and killing locals in Honey Island Swamp for decades.Here in the UK, it's the horror franchise that hardly anyone has heard of.
I think you have to be a true old school horror movie fan to appreciate films like this as they use old school effects and over the top blood and gore, which I love.
Let me start off by saying that I'm a huge fan of slasher films, and the Hatchet series especially.
The film starts off where the last one ended, with Marybeth shooting Crowley's head off with a shotgun (extremely gory).
To make sure this time, Marybeth chops off Crowley's head and flees Honey Island swamp with it in her hands, ending up at a police station in custody.
Not really liked, or loved it, but it was enjoyable for those of us who grew up with the Jason Voorhees films.It was my bad for not making an entire night of watching the first two Hatchet movies again prior to watching Hatchet III.
A Scream 2 reporter is bent on using her to take down Victor once and for all – or as they always wish.The movie, like the previous installments takes a long time to get to the money shots, but this one, not directed by Adam Green – who I do like a lot, speeds up the film faster than before.It's bloody, it's ridiculous in its carnage and it's never to be taken seriously.