VIDEO: Victor Crowley Is Back in HATCHET II
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Victor Crowley, the deformed, swamp delling killer is back in HATCHET II, killing and maming new victims as in this movie clip from the new horror sequel.
Adam Green’s HATCHET II picks up at the exact moment that 2006’s Hatchet ends, wherein the quiet but hot-tempered Marybeth (Danielle Harris) is in a small boat in the Louisiana swamps, screaming for her life as she tries to free herself from the clutches Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder). Crowley has murdered Marybeth’s family and other fellow vacationers who had come together on a tourist excursion in the swamplands outside of New Orleans.
Marybeth escapes from Crowley and manages to make it back to civilization, where she once again encounters voodoo shop proprietor Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd), who had helped to arrange Marybeth and company’s earlier, ill-fated tour of the area. To help Marybeth and also serve his own secret agenda, Reverend Zombie recruits a hardened pack of hunters to head back into the swamp to seek revenge on Victor Crowley.
HATCHET II is in theaters October 1, 2010.
THE RETURN OF VICTOR CROWLEY...
A ferociously fun tribute to the old-school slasher movies of the Eighties, the original 2006 Hatchet is one of the decade’s most inspired and entertaining horror films. And just as the Eighties had their signature murderous maniacs--Halloween’s Michael Myers of Haddonfield and Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees of Camp Crystal Lake—Hatchet marked the arrival of the latest and most lethal of the genre’s stalking murderers: Victor Crowley, a crazed backwoods killer stalking the bayous of New Orleans. Armed with his titular chopping tool and an appetite for deliriously demented blood-letting, Victor was created in the mind of filmmaker Adam Green when he was a young boy attending summer sleepaway camp more than two decades ago. “I invented Victor Crowley when I was only eight years old, so twenty or so years later when I got the chance to shoot it, I merely made the type of movie I wanted to see on the big screen again,” says Green.
And at a time when torture-oriented entries and computer-generated special effects were dominating the horror arena, the type of movie Green wanted to see—and ultimately made—eschewed digital effects and sustained torture sequences in favor of old-fashioned prosthetic appliances, blood packs and on-set/incamera
special effects, just like the ones he saw as a fan of slashers back in the Eighties. And injecting a shot of humor was another ingredient that was important to the filmmaker.
To that end, Green underlined the connection to old-school horror by wrangling several of the genre’s most beloved performers for the movie, led by the legendary Kane Hodder, who has portrayed such horror icons as Jason in four Friday the 13th films and Leatherface in Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III and Tony Todd (Candyman).
Hatchet, produced by ArieScope Pictures--a film and television production company founded by Green, Hatchet producer Cory Neal, and Hatchet cinematographer Will Barratt--hit the international film festival circuit, received a limited theatrical release in September 2007, and was issued on DVD a few months
later.
And the rest, as mourners hovering over the remains of Victor Crowley’s victims might say, is history, as Hatchet proved to be extremely well-received at horror and fantasy festivals, a healthy earner during its limited theatrical release, and a monstrous hit in its DVD incarnation. It also earned slots in “Top 10
Films of the Year” lists at MTV and Ain’t It Cool News.
And so, of course there was going to be a Hatchet II.
