ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Scarecrow-88 Pick axe, hammer tail, chopping ax, and scissors all get a piece of the action as the twentieth anniversary of Mary Hatchet's death and burial is ghoulishly celebrated by high school brats looking to get wasted and laid on what they call the festive occasion, Blood Night. The usual slasher murders and attractive folks meeting their end when a killer surprises them unexpectedly or after separating in a panic. Bill Moseley and Danielle Harris pick up easy paychecks as caretaker (named Graveyard Gus) of the cemetery where Mary's body lies and college student (nicknamed Mouse) who shows up for the night party because her best friend is there. Although the film hints at Mary being resurrected because the stupid kids concoct a Ouija session at her gravesite, the murders, for the most part, are shot in a way to create reasonable doubt because the killer isn't shown...if it was Mary, why not just show her laying waste to the kids? Heads split and gush, not to mention, get lopped off. The twist involving the killer might be easy for those who have seen their fill of these, if not because he or she is so out of place and doesn't quite fit with the rest of the kids. The constant mentioning of the baby supposedly dead and buried elsewhere from Mary is obvious groundwork laid for the conclusion. Moseley is cast in a rare hero part, and he seeks to bury child with Mother in the hopes of Mary going away for good...when he and the kids go through the records in the old mental asylum they're in for quite a surprise! Nothing new to see here, but fans of the slasher might be more forgiving. Some sexy girls in the cast, especially Maryam Basir. Drunk teenager antics and horndog behavior galore. Mary Hatchet when shown is often nude with the bullet hole still showing on her forehead. Moseley gets to tell a ghost story to the gathered high school kids around Mary's grave.

Coventry You have to at least show some respect for writer/director Frank Sabatella. For his debut long-feature "Blood Night" he did absolutely nothing special or innovative, but nevertheless delivered a hugely amusing and 100% unpretentious slasher movie that gave me personally a lot of viewing pleasure! It actually pretty much seems like Sabatella simply opened the big unwritten book of horror movie clichés and stereotypes and processed every single one in his screenplay. Literally everything you can think of is present here: the intro with a flashback set in the gritty 1970's, a dark ominous asylum, perverted night guards, horny drunken teenagers, Ouija boards, the creepy but wise cemetery caretaker, evil heritages, actors that are way too old for their teenage character roles and a whole lot of graphic axe-murders! Mary Hatchet is the nickname of a local anti-heroine whose murderous rampage became a holiday more popular than Halloween. She butchered her parents with an axe in 1978, but really went berserk in 1989, when she delivered a stillborn baby as a result of being raped by a guard. Twenty years after her death, a bunch of teenagers passes by her grave with a Ouija board before heading home and party hard. It doesn't take long before the dim- witted teenagers are knocked off one by one, seemingly by the hand of the resurrected Mary Hatchet herself. "Blood Night" is – plain and simple – pure brainless horror entertainment. Yes, the gory make-up effects are utterly grotesque and fake and there isn't a single moment of suspense to detect in the entire film, but I don't think anyone can claim they were bored whilst watching this. The characters are walking, talking stereotypes that deliver the utmost idiotic lines, but somehow they come across as realistic. Last but not least, Sabatella managed to engage two famous horror names for his modest production, namely veteran Bill Moseley and upcoming starlet Danielle Harris. Recommended if you're looking for … nothing special except a good hour and a half of sheer entertainment.

bwljcql i bought this simply because it had danielle harris in it because i think she is the new scream queen and i can tell you i was not disappointed it has a great script excellent acting and a good storyline and while everybody is entitled to there opinion i don't think other reviews of this film do it justice the death scenes are excellent and very well done i paid five pounds for this film and i can only say what a bargain i would have gladly paid more im am a big fan of slasher movies and this is definitely one of the best i have seen in a long time it is certainly up there with the likes of halloween and Friday the thirteenth so at the weekend get some beers and pizza and popcorn and rent this or even better buy it and i promise you will not be disappointed

ruud-16 I found this movie actually not as bad as the rating and reviews made it out to be. Visually it's reasonably pleasing, although a pint or more less of blood being thrown across the screen could have helped giving the movie a more serious touch.The one thing that distracts from the fun is the very poor soundtrack. Surely a bit more budget there would have helped lots.Other than that, the pace wasn't too fast, but not too slow either. It's a usual student-type movie with the gratuitous unique-selling-points of sex ramping up to a nice movie for a Thursday evening when nothing much is happening otherwise.Still, nice enough if you're into a horror movie where you don't have to think much.