Hatchet II (2010)

Adam Green delivers more of the same with his deliriously sadistic sequel to his "throwback" horror hit of 2007. Dedicated followers of the horror genre will take delight in some of the casting and in the admittedly hilarious over the top gore gags, but in truth there's not that much going on here. The movie is fun, but quite forgettable. The humour is hit and miss; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. 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. Filling out the cast with familiar faces from the genre is not exactly a fresh gimmick, but horror fans may be still attracted to seeing them all here. Harris is appealing, as always, Todd gets a lot to do this time (he was wasted in a cameo role the first time around) and is a total hoot, and Holland is rather good (buffs will know that he began his career as an actor). 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. 1, chances are you'll have a fairly good time with part 2. At least it's not pretending to be more than it is, a goofy horror comedy that delivers blood by the bucketful.Seven out of 10.

This is pretty much the premise of Hatchet II, a bunch of stupid people get slaughtered in amusing ways. The kills were both gory and creative, more than enough to satisfy the most hardcore gore aficionados.What let the movie down was the lack of a good story...actually...it lacked any story. Movie summary in one sentence - Assemble a group of people and herd them down to the swamp to get killed. End of movie.The female protagonist was too stupid to think she would not get killed. Apparently surviving a previous encounter with Victor was not enough, she needed to face him again and let him have another go at her. No sane person with half a brain cell would go back out to relive their previous horrors. Of course, her stupidity reigned supreme and she survived another encounter with the killer.I will say that this sequel is better than the first one. Not by much but better.

You soon to be sociopaths really need to start watching other types genre other than supernatural psychopathic thrillers, action adventure, comedy, or science fiction. Clearly you have no taste when it comes to cinema art. After getting through the opening scene I thought to myself how completely unrealistically stupid, monster reaches into guy's belly completely disemboweling him commences to wrap the guy's intestines around his neck and squeezes until his head pops off, the guy would have been dead from exsanguination as soon as he had his intestines ripped out, doh!, dah!, completely mentally deficient. Sorry but I would have to compare the talent of these screen writers to the intelligence of inbred hillbillies. Yuck, yuck this movie sincerely sucked.

As a life-long Jason Voorhees fan, I'm sad to say, his all-but Twin N the Swamps, Victor Crowley would win any battle between the two. Though, it may take an extra couple of million in the budget as Kane Hodder plays both of them.Poor Adam Green. Why aren't people seeing his vision? Frozen thawed before it was barely seen and that was pretty good. The original Hatchet was a great homage to the Friday the 13th series (amongst others.) And now Hatchet II was booted out of theatres as fast as the Garbage Pail Kids were.They say it's because the movie was too gross. Granted, some scenes were just over the top, and I think that's just part of the continued homage. I've seen worse, by the way. Saw III and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, for two examples, were far worse. Hell, aside from one scene in the beginning, basically NOTHING happens, in regards to gore, for another 49 or so minutes. The movie's only 89 minutes long!To add: despite the lack of action/gore/horror in the first two acts, director (also writer) Green kept things interesting enough to push forward, thanks to horror veteran Tony Todd, who always gives a scene-stealing performance. Not to mention the comedy during the time, such as the reference of Jason Voorhees (and LESLIE VERNON – do your homework on that one for those unfamiliar) to Victor Crowley.Unfortunately, it also contains one of the WORST reasons for the heroine to go back into harm's way – usually the woods, in this case, the swamp with the most ruthless killer still on the loose. SPOILER! – Marybeth (originally played by Tamara Feldman, now by, I'm guessing wannabe scream-queen, Halloween veteran Danielle Harris) completely survived the attacks to near death more than a few times and lived to run to nearby New Orleans and tell about it.Her first objective? Oh, to go back into the unstoppable/unkillable monster's domain and reclaim her brother and father's corpses in order to bury them. Seriously? Really? Granted, she'd love to extract revenge, but I would put my Vegas odds on the person/creature 4x her body weight. It's just as well; Harris aided in killing another franchise with yet another part two even with the same roman numerals in Rob Zombie's Halloween II.OK, getting past that, we enter the realm of hillbilly revenge where the Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd, and yeah, I like that, Adam) rounds up bearded men (and the obvious blonde chick) with rounds of their own to head into the swamp with Lil Miss Marybeth to get Zombie's boat (lost in part one.) Does Zombie have ulterior motives? Obviously, but that's really not the point of the movie, is it?And full circle: the main problem with the film is the enormous amount of set-up to get to the slaughter we're all expecting (and the reason theatres banned this.) If you're into that sort of thing, once the hillbillies hit the fan, you probably won't be disappointed. And it's severely over the top – including some, what, 6 foot chainsaw?At least the pay off at the end was worth it, not to mention the whole experience is under an hour and a half. It's harmless – but, again, only if you're into the gore and splattered blood genre.