Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

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

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

SnoopyStyle A blood-covered Marybeth Dunston (Danielle Harris) walks out of the Louisiana bayou, carrying a severed head and a shotgun, into a police station and is quickly arrested. The police finds the bloody massacre scene. Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder) comes back to life and starts murdering again. Amanda Fowler (Caroline Williams) sneaks into jail with a plan to kill Victor once and for all. Sheriff Fowler (Zach Galligan) takes the SWAT team into the swamp only to be attacked.Having never seen the Hatchet franchise, this starts quite well. It doesn't hurt to have Danielle Harris who gets hosed down prison-style. She's a good smart-mouthed lead. There is plenty of bloody gore but the characters are nothing more than cannon fodder. It's still fun but they should have kept Danielle with them. Splitting the characters into two groups does not help. I simply don't care about the Sheriff and his people. There is a bit of fun with Sid Haig. This movie is a bit of a gorefest but it could have been more.

David Roggenkamp Deep in the woods of the Lousiana swamp, an urban legend familiar to the locals is underway. An undead murderer possessed by a supernatural curse, is forced to relive each night as he was killed, nearly 300 years ago. His goal is to settle his debt by finding the father and the one that killed him. This translates into wandering the Lousiana swamp, and killing everything that gets in his way. One such night, as the movie begins, involves a massacre as a girl fights for her life and otherwise saws the supernatural killer into pieces. She turns herself in, shotgun; the sheriff doesn't believe her story, and his ex- wife wants a piece of the action in the form of a news story for the Internet.The local law enforcement and medical teams are dispatched to recover the dead bodies and perform an investigation as to what just happened in the bayou. There is little doubt that a single girl could have done all of this; instead one of the medical coroner's finds a huge body and believes it to be the murderer. As most horror movie stylings go, the body starts to move towards nightfall and the murders begin.No one is safe from this killer; he is everywhere in the swamp at once; it is his and he knows it better than anyone. Knowing what they have on their hands, the sheriff decides to call in the local swat team. Characters exchange small talk, personalities and banter as they patrol the swamp woodland for the killer. Finally, they slowly get picked off one by one. Characters die, left and right – they all die gruesome and grisly deaths; the horror mode is set and the gore is rampant. The killer is a throwback to the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with a grotesque character that otherwise wields hatchets, machetes and even a sand grinder at one point. The national guard is called in at one point to stop the killer. This movie is pretty serious about the protocol everyone must follow; a few people want out but face consequences for leaving the scene of a murder. Lastly, the movie at one point brings in a rocket launcher to do the killer in. The drama is there, but moreso the facet of bludgeoning characters before a gory death, is all what this movie is about.Bad qualities of this movie include the crackpot journalist that knows the secret to doing the legend in. She yells and screams in her journalistic profession to get the story; she is even less of an enjoyable character when she provokes other characters needlessly, brings out their worst qualities, and turns them into bottom-of-the-barrel misfits. Other characters show their lack of control by aggressively swearing or provoking each other; one swat team member shows his badass side on grounds of not wanting to lose his job. The movie requires a leap of faith in following along with the urban legend – if such a thing could be believable is not known; it is a movie after all. Despite the aggravating characters, the movie redeems itself, and probably quite deliberately, by condemning the characters to a gruesome death.Whether you enjoy senseless killings, absurd gore and lots of spine rippings; this movie should be sure to please over some of the boring and less grotesque members of the horror genre. Those not interested in overly dramatic characters that love to yell; are probably better off looking towards other entries of the horror genre.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=5870).

FlashCallahan 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. The last movie had one showing in a flea bitten cinema in the worst part of my city, Leicester, so it's not a big surprise.To describe the movie, its Predator, meets Friday the 13th, by way of Terminator, but with lots and lots of gore. It's probably more gorier than the Evil Dead remake, but unlike that movie, this has a sense of humour to it, and you will find yourself chuckling along with it, not at it.But, the films structure has been done so many times before, that it doesn't offer anything new. It's basically girl walks into police station covered in blood, no one believes her because the killer died years earlier, search squad go looking for survivors, and guess what? They realise she was right all along.The support are okay, and apart from the character of Amanda, the characters are quite likable.Its worth watching, but you will have seen it so many times before.But it's the best film ever made showing that Zach Galligan hasn't aged in thirty years.

rivertam26 A vast improvement after the dragged out and seemingly unnecessary sequel Hatchet 3 returns with an electrifying opening scene returning it mostly to it's gory roots. 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. Danielle Harris reprises her role as Mary Beth much better and contained in this installment. After murdering Crowley she returns to town blood soaked with a rifle and is immediately arrested. But a curious reporter joins forces with her to end it once and for all. There are some super impressive death scenes as should be expected including a face fisting, many creative decapitations and countless other body parts being removed. but what makes the material work most of all in this sequel is that it has a point and is heading towards a slightly rushed but fulfilling conclusion to the Hatchet trilogy. One can only hope for more carnage with a sequel that hopefully moves the action into the mainland and Mardi gras. ***.5/5