Hatchet II

Plot synopsis:
Picking up immediately where the first film ended, Marybeth (Danielle Harris) is attacked by Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder), but manages to escape. Jack Cracker finds her, pulls her out of the river, and takes her back to his cabin. After finding out her last name, he forces her to leave, telling her that if she wants help, she needs to see Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd). Moments after she leaves, Jack views Shapiro's camcorder, which he found in the swamp. The footage shows Shapiro filming different topless women, including Misty and Jenna. It also further reveals Shaprio's plan to venture into the swamp. After Jack finishes watching the video, he is killed by Victor Crowley, who gouges his intestines out and strangles him with them until he decapitates him.
Marybeth returns to Reverend Zombie's shop and, after demanding to speak with him, he reluctantly lets her in. It's revealed that Rev. Zombie had a small business going on with Shawn, the tour guide who was murdered the night before, and the boat was one of his own. After learning her last name, he tells her that her father was one of the boys responsible for causing the fire that originally killed Victor Crowley. He also tells her that Thomas, Victor's father, cheated on his wife Shyann with her nurse Lena after she was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Moments before dying, Shyann Crowley placed a curse on the child conceived by Lena from the affair. Months later, Lena died after giving birth to the deformed Victor Crowley. After Victor is killed by being hatched in the face, Thomas confronts the three boys responsible but due to his violent attitude with him brandishing and firing a shotgun they, along with their parents deny it. Thomas becomes a shut-in and eventually dies of a broken heart ten years later. This story is then complemented by various scenes in which the undead Victor slaughters the people who wander into his land.
Marybeth tells Reverend Zombie she wants to go back and retrieve the remains of her father and brother. He agrees, but tells her she must bring a family member with her. After she leaves, Zombie calls Justin (Parry Shen), Shawn's brother, and tells him Shawn never came back with the boat. He lies and says they are going into the swamp to find Shawn and the boat. He tells Justin to summon a group of hunters and, in particular, a man named Trent Graves (R. A. Mihailoff) to go with them. Marybeth returns home, where her uncle Bob (Tom Holland) promptly shows up. He tells her she needs to stay away from Reverend Zombie, but reluctantly goes with her to a recruitment meeting in Zombie's shop. Zombie tells the hunters that he will pay them $500 each to retrieve his boat and $5,000 for the head of Victor Crowley. He tells Trent that he will pay him double to go, and Trent agrees. The hunters leave and go into the swamp, with Marybeth and her uncle among them.
They find the boat and, as the rest leave, two of the hunters, Cletus and Chad (Ed Ackerman and David Foy) stay by the boat. The others split up to find Victor. Marybeth, Zombie, Justin, Bob, and Trent go looking for Crowley's shed and the bodies. Along the way, Zombie explains to Justin that Trent and Marybeth's father and uncle were the kids who started the fire that killed Victor. He believes that if Crowley kills Bob and Trent, his soul will be at peace and leave the swamp. After not finding the bodies in the shed, they check the main cabin. Meanwhile, the rest of the hunting party are killed off by Victor. Chad is hacked in the face violently with the hatchet and Cletus has his face mutilated by a boat propeller. While Layton (AJ Bowen) and Avery (Alexis Peters) are having make-up sex, Victor appears and decapitates Layton. Avery tries to run away but Victor hits her in between the legs and in the chest with his hatchet. Finally, John and Vernon (Rick McCallum and Colton Dunn) are both split in half from the groin up with a long chainsaw. While searching the cabin, the remaining party members hear Victor outside.
As they hide, Justin tells Marybeth of Zombie's plot to get her uncle and Trent killed after Marybeth tells Justin that Shawn is dead. She runs to warn Bob. Then, Justin jams the door shut with a chair. Justin hides, but then Victor turns up behind Justin and kills him by ripping his head open with a belt sander. Bob, in an attempt to save Justin accidentally releases Victor. Marybeth attempts to attack him but is tossed against the wall. Victor then spears Trent against the wall and the two stumble into the kitchen, where an epic battle ensues. Victor makes use of his strength while Trent uses the nearby surroundings to his advantage, temporally pinning Crowley against a support and whacking him with tables and chairs, but Trent is finally killed when he attempts to kill Victor with a cleaver as Victor breaks his leg and severs the top half of his head by kicking it against a table. While this is happening, Zombie grabs Marybeth, drags her out of the house, and traps Bob inside with Victor. Zombie restrains Marybeth while she screams as she hears Bob murdered by Victor inside. She falls to the ground crying and Zombie declares that's it all over and Victor Crowley is dead.
Marybeth says she will go to the police for what he did, but Zombie holds her at gunpoint. She then reveals that Bob was not her real uncle; her father's brother had died of leukemia when she was twelve, Bob was her father's best friend. Zombie turns to see Victor breaking through the wall of the cabin, now realizing his plan to kill Victor Crowley has failed. Zombie advances towards Victor and chokes him, but Victor kills him by severing him in half and then skinning him alive by pulling on his spine. Just after he finishes, Marybeth strikes Victor in the forehead with his own hatchet, knocking him to the ground. She then goes hysterical and strikes him in the head repeatedly until left a bloody pulp. She eventually stops and walks off just as Victor's hand twitches, then returns and stands over him with Zombie's shotgun, and fires the gun into the remains of his head, blowing his brains out and apparently ending his terror.

Tags: violence

Review:
Chet's Hat. It started off quite different to the first; after spending some time explaining things about the killer however, things returned to campy slasher territory.This time, Tony Todd takes hunters into the woods so the cast consists of older people mostly.Perhaps because of watching many films commissioned by sci-fi channel I was familiar with films that featured gun-toting guys without much personality and I was surprised when the hunters had varying oddball personalities.
But just a few reels later, the roller-coaster ride of full-on violence & savage slaughter begins and the body count or body pieces rather, keep piling up till the topping at the finale :) When I saw the movie poster, I anticipated some dread thinking of all that slaying but when you actually watch the scenes, it looks comical!
I was having enough fun watching the hacking & nudity :) I guess, this movie proves once again that slaughter & nudity in movies always gel very well, hehe.Nothing much to talk about the acting, except for Danielle Harris and Tony Todd(as Reverend Zombie).
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.
I love Hatchet, I think it one of best slasher movies to come out in the last few years.I really wanted to love this movie, the gore was good and some really good nasty gory deaths scenes, Victor did not look that scary this time around.I Really hate it when sequels recast one of the main characters in movie, (It did not work in A Nigthmare on elm street 4 and it did not work in this movie for me) I liked the old Marybeth better as I have seen her in 8 Simple Rules and USA High and then they replace her with the girl in this movie.New recast sucked all the fun out of this movie for me, it took me to long to get used to her playing Marybeth.Gory sequel.
Most horror movies that try to go back and give an origin story for the villain usually end up being pretty bad, just look at Halloween 6.
After all the hullabaloo in the media about Hatchet 2 not getting a cinema release – much of it from the director himself – I had envisioned writing this up as an overlooked minor classic, instead I had to watch the last 20 minutes twice to prove to myself I didn't miss anything and that the film really was meant to end that way.In reality I should have seen it coming, the original Hatchet received much undue praise when in reality it was a straight 80s rip, that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it was a rip of generic 80s crap, not the cream of the crop.
The so-called "anti-hero" Victor Crowley was also massively overrated: Gee a mutated freakishly strong psychopath that lives in a swamp and kills anyone unsuspecting who shows up in gory ways ...That's original.In retrospect it was also a really bad sign that the director decided Loreal style that "he was worth it", and plonked his name on the title: so I should kowtow and refer to this as "Adam Green's Hatchet 2".Anyhoo in H2 (that's what I call it, but I'm just creative like that) we get a clumsy backstory that in essence shows that Victor was "born of awkward circumstances".I've said it before – if you don't have a creative backstory don't tell it – just get to the killin' and the screamin'.The remainder of the film revolves around the bizarre premise that Victor is somehow an undead ghost or something, and that only his avenging himself will rid himself from the swamps and save people from himself.Made no sense to me either, which wouldn't have mattered a zack if I liked how he went about it The movie at least then tries to adhere to the tried and tested formula of heavy metal, gore & tits, but the formula is so formulaic and basically boring that it had exactly zero impact or entertainment value.After a very brief, derivative and clumsy justification for heading back to the swamp involving a young woman named Mary-Beth (Danielle Harris) looking for her family with a kooky sightseeing operator named Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd) back into Crowley's territory we go, along with fresh meat in the form of hired muscle being paid $500 per head, with a bonus to the guy who takes down Crowley.Only as we see quite frequently in the latter half of the film, Crowley is not an easybeat, at near 7 foot, with a mangled face, huge guns and the ability to take a shotgun blast to the chest without wincing, it would have taken a lot more than five hundred clams to get me in the same state – let alone the same dark and gloomy swamp.Victor is unstoppable, he is everywhere and can seemingly get anywhere instantaneously.
Marybeth (now played by Danielle Harris rather than by Tamara Feldman like the original) barely escapes an encounter with Victor Crowley, and is rescued by a creepy fisherman named Jack Cracker (Buechler).
Nothing wrong with that.The gore is doubled, just like the title, and it seems that if there's any reason to watch Hatchet II is because of the grotesque killings Green has thought up.
Adam Green should remind us that.Starring: Danielle Harris, Tony Todd, Kane Hodder, Parry Shen, Tom Holland, R.A. Mihailoff, Colton Dunn, and AJ Bowen.
I liked the original quite a lot - it's quite a fun ride.The sequel, however, is a lackluster effort and I'm not surprised it wasn't released theatrically in America.The movie discards everything the original had going for it: Interesting and likable characters.
Instead we have a bunch of hams screaming, running around, and dropping like flies in ways that make so little sense but brought unexpected giggles, piling one deus ex machina on top of another until your brain switches off and you can't stop snickering at actors trying too hard for such a bad movie, especially the poor unfunny Danielle Harris.As a final insult, editing is a disaster: you can skip the first half hour and not miss a thing.
Marybeth (Danielle Harris) escapes the clutches of the bayou-butcher Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder) and returns to the swamp with an army of hunters and gunmen, determined to end Crowley's reign of horror once and for all.The strength of this film is in the back story of Victor Crowley.
I like a horror movie to get a few laughs out of me when I watch it.The acting in Hatchet 2 was okay.
thanks to her particularly grating performance in Adam Green's slasher sequel Hatchet II, Danielle Harris is now in joint No.1 position on my list of irritating horror movie actresses, sharing the not-so-coveted top spot with that other awful 'scream queen du jour', Scout Taylor-Compton (you can imagine how much I must hate Rob Zombie's Halloween movies, in which both girls appear!!!).Sadly, it's not just Harris's incessant whining and unconvincing attempts to look scared that frustrate me about this highly anticipated sequel to tongue-in-cheek slasher Hatchet: it's the fact that director Adam Green has taken the easy route with his follow up to what was easily one of the most enjoyable scary movies of the last decade.It was the ultra-gory kills that were a major factor in making the first film such a hit, and Hatchet II sees Green focusing on raising the body count and splatter quotient to the detriment of almost everything else.
Thus, we get a 'name' actress to draw in the punters, an unnecessary retelling of Victor Crowley's origins to pad out the running time, a weak plot that simply serves to get a raft of uninspired characters to the killing grounds, and lousy dialogue that feels as though it was either improvised or written when drunk (the people are talking, but they're not saying anything worth listening to).
Even if the effects aren't as well executed as in the first film, the range of kills and excess of blood and body parts should satisfy all but the most pernickety of gorehounds: there's a strangulation by intestines (resulting in the victim's head popping off!), face mashing with both hatchet and outboard motor, a head bisected by a table, decapitation during sex, a belt sander to the skull, and in one very bizarre scene, a double death by what must be cinema's longest chainsaw.If Danielle Harris had been on the receiving end such a mighty power-tool (preferably within the first five minutes of the film), I might have been a little more forgiving about the lacklustre script; since she was allowed to survive to the bitter end, I can only bring myself to give Hatchet II a relatively disappointing 6 out of 10 (all points awarded for the splatter alone)..
Hatchet II (2010) ** (out of 4) This sequel picks up right at the end of the 2006 with Marybeth (now played by Danielle Harris) escaping the swamp.
She goes to Rev. Zombie (Tony Todd) who informs her that her father, uncle and another man were the ones who originally murdered Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder), the maniac in the swamp who just killed all her friends.
Green doesn't do too much establishing of the environment here, instead focusing on pace, action, and making the audience howl and clap in appreciation.He brings back his character Marybeth (iconic horror hottie Danielle Harris inherits the role from Tamara Feldman) who's survived the rampage of Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder) and made it back to civilization, where she confronts slimy businessman Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd) about what she's learned is a connection between her and old Vic. She then ventures back into the swamp to try to put an end to Vics' days, and Zombie agrees to go along (albeit for his own reasons), in the company of a group of heavily armed, but not too bright, hunters who were bought off pretty cheap.
Also tagging along is Marybeths' concerned uncle Bob (Tom Holland, the director of "Fright Night" and "Child's Play", in a good-sized acting role).The mindless violence in this movie *is* quite entertaining, although the viewer will have to sit through a fair amount of set-up and introduction to some less than completely interesting characters.
Also appearing are Parry Shen (returning from the first movie, but playing a different role), R.A. Mihailoff, and AJ Bowen, with director John Carl Buechler reprising his part as area local Jack Cracker.If you enjoyed "Hatchet" no.
It's throw back to old school slasher movies with cool cameos, hilarious comedy, danielle harris, and kane hodder as victor crowley, in a sequel that is arguably the best entry in the entire hatchet series, this movies starts off seconds after the first the movie giving more answers on victor crowleys back story and the lore on the other characters in the movie as well.
The film has Halloween star Danielle Harris returning to a swamp where Victor still alive (once again like Jason).
But what makes Hatchet II truly noteworthy are the stellar performances by the cast; starting with star Danielle Harris, as the vengeful Marybeth, and Tony Todd, as the devious Voodoo master Rev. Zombie.
Hell, they even bring back Parry Shen, whose character died in the first movie (by virtue of him playing the guy's twin brother).Everything that sparkled about the first film has gone in HATCHET II, to be replaced by a boring script and a dearth of imagination.
He looks goofy, like an alien from a 1980s movie, whereas in the first film he was kept in the shadows a lot and all the more frightening for it.Finally, Danielle Harris is a poor replacement for the original actress.
After a very brief, derivative and clumsy justification for heading back to the swamp involving a young woman named Mary-Beth (Danielle Harris) looking for her family with a kooky sightseeing operator named Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd) back into Crowley's territory we go, along with fresh meat in the form of hired muscle being paid $500 per head, with a bonus to the guy who takes down Crowley.Only as we see quite frequently in the latter half of the film, Crowley is not an easybeat, at near 7 foot, with a mangled face, huge guns and the ability to take a shotgun blast to the chest without wincing, it would have taken a lot more than five hundred clams to get me in the same state – let alone the same dark and gloomy swamp.Victor is unstoppable, he is everywhere and can seemingly get anywhere instantaneously.
The victims don't even fight back 90% of the time, they stand still and take their medicine like guys in a bad kung fu movie.What makes that even worse is that I guarantee Mr Adam Green spent more time on the kills than he did coming up with the threadbare backstory and lousy plot, so you just expect more.
The victims don't even fight back 90% of the time, they stand still and take their medicine like guys in a bad kung fu movie.What makes that even worse is that I guarantee Mr Adam Green spent more time on the kills than he did coming up with the threadbare backstory and lousy plot, so you just expect more.
A disfigured killer Victor Crowley comes back in this extremely gory sequel of Adam Green's "Hatchet".Marybeth(Danielle Harris)and Reverend Zombie(Tony Todd)organize a hunting party to kill Crowley once for all.Unfortunately Victor is more deadly than ever slashing,butchering and killing his hunters one by one...Completely unoriginal and clichéd slasher flick with tons of gore and seriously high bodycount.The killings are creative and utterly insane with rivers of spurting blood.The characters are paper-thin,but the pace is fast and the gore is truly gross.If you liked the first "Hatchet" you can't miss this hugely enjoyable sequel.8 hatchets out of 10.A man being choked to death with his own intestines-priceless!.
Picking up immediately where the first film ended, Marybeth (Danielle Harris) is attacked by Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder), but manages to escape.
Along the way Zombie tells Justin that Trent, Bob and Marybeth's father were the kids who started the fire that killed Victor.
He once again writes and directs this sequel with legendary slasher actors Kane Hodder and Tony Todd both reprising their roles from the first film.
Hodder once again plays the maniac killer the films revolve around, 'Victor Crowley' (who is much like Hodder's other iconic movie monster character 'Jason' and there's even a joke about it in the film), and Todd returns as Reverend Zombie, expanding his bit part from the original film into a lead character.
'Scream Queen' Danielle Harris, who you might remember from four 'HALLOWEEN' films, stars as the film's heroine.Harris plays Marybeth (taking over for Tamara Feldman from the first film), the only person from her Louisiana swamp cruise to survive the brutal attack of hatchet wielding maniac monster Victor Crowley (from the first film).
After getting away, a deal is struck between Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd) and Marybeth (Danielle Harris) to go back into Crowley's lair and take him out and retrieve her father and brother's remains along with a group of hunters as their backup posse.
And it continues the story of Victor Crowley and his killing spree.Marybeth, played by Danielle Harris, makes a return to the bayou to confront Victor Crowley, who terrorized her in the first movie.
And if for nothing else, then watch it for the killings and the special effects, or for Tony Todd and Kane Hodder as they truly are horror legends."Hatchet 2" provided good entertainment for me, especially in a time where there are so many mediocre slasher movies coming out.
I normally like straight-faced horror films (such as "Let the Right One In") but still enjoyed the humor-infused blood-fest that is "Hatchet." I was disappointed in this sequel.
Marybeth Dunston (Danielle Harris) goes to Honey Island Swamp to search for her missing gator hunter daddy and her brother and runs afoul of Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder).
But I think if you're just looking for a good time with a horror film, definitely check this one out, the Hatchet movies are awesome and I can't wait to read up on the new sequel.
Victor Crowley is genuinely one of the most badass killing machines since Kane Hodder graced the hockey mask of Jason Voorhees.Another genre regular that gets to expand his role from the first film is Tony Todd (Candyman, Final Destination), as Reverend Zombie.
Taking over from part 1's Tamara Feldman, modern day Scream Queen Danielle Harris gives a very good performance as Marybeth Dunstan,whose experiences in the first movie Harris uses to keep Dunstan in a fragile shell,which Harris joyfully cracks,as Dunstan finds herself the "final girl."Carrying straight on from the first,the screenplay by returning director Adam Green stabs into Crowley's past with a well-delivered flashback,which whilst making the monster a fuller figure,does not soften the attacks that he is currently inflicting.
Kane Hodder and Tony Todd reprise their roles, but Danielle Harris replaces Tamara Feldman as Marybeth.Marybeth was in Honey Island Swamp, and barely escapes the wrath of Victor Crowley.
Or perhaps the one and only reason why I liked this sequel so much is because Danielle Harris takes over the role of Marybeth; the sole survivor of the original Louisiana swamp massacre.
Disappointing sequel to Adam Green's indie horror festival hit, HATCHET, has Danielle Harris replacing Tamara Feldman as the tormented Marybeth, wanting Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd, in a meatier part than the first film which was basically an amusing cameo) to take her back to the swamp forest where Crowley haunts to get her father and brother's remains.
Perhaps some might say this kind of performance isn't necessary for a film such as HATCHET II, but Harris seemed to take to the Marybeth character a bit differently.
Picking up exactly where the original left off, Marybeth (Now played by Harris) escapes Victor Crowley (Hodder) and goes back to Reverend Zombie (Todd) who sent her on the tour.