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3''If you're looking for the Gary Paulsen book, [[Literature/BriansSaga click here]]''.
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5''Hatchet'' is a {{troperiffic}} 2006 {{slasher movie}} written and directed by Adam Green, who also directed ''Film/{{Frozen|2010}}'' (not ''THAT {{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}'').
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7A long time ago, Victor Crowley was born in the Louisiana bayou [[TheGrotesque horribly disfigured]], becoming the butt of jokes among the other kids. One day, he is accidentally killed during a [[DeadlyPrank prank gone wrong]], and his ghost continues to haunt the bayou. Years later, a haunted river cruise run by an inept boat pilot [[DontGoInTheWoods heads into a closed-off section of the river]] and runs aground, forcing the nine people on board to get off and hike back to UsefulNotes/NewOrleans. Problem is, Victor's ghost still haunts these woods...
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9''Hatchet'' was created as [[GenreThrowback a throwback]] to the golden age of {{slasher movie}}s in TheEighties, and it shows. It [[{{Troperiffic}} gleefully employs all of the tropes used by said movies]], all while cranking the [[{{Gorn}} gore]] to almost-unthinkable levels (it had to go through two months of recuts to get an R rating). The film quickly gained a massive following among horror fans for its {{reconstruction}} of the slasher genre, and two sequels were released in 2010 and 2013, with a fourth installment, ''[[AntagonistTitle Victor Crowley]]'', released in 2017.
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17* AccidentalMurder: Victor Crowley's father accidentally killed Victor with the eponymous hatchet while trying to chop through the shack's front door.
18* AndStarring: All films are '''with Creator/KaneHodder''', and Part I has the "and" go to Creator/RobertEnglund.
19* AscendedExtra: Reverend Zombie from part I is upgraded to main character [[spoiler:(and antagonist)]] in part II.
20* AssholeVictim: All four films in the series have a few. In the first there's Sampson Dunston and Doug Shapiro. In the second, Reverend Zombie. In the third there's Tyler Hawes. The fourth film has Sabrina.
21* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Ben shows up in ''Hatchet III'' in a moored boat, having survived two nights out in the cold with only one arm and severe blood loss, only to immediately get a hatchet to the face the moment he thinks he's been saved by a police officer]]
22* BackupTwin: Justin to Shawn in ''Hatchet II''. [[spoiler: Invoked in ''Hatchet III'' as the actor who played the two, Parry Shen, came back to play Andrew, a paramedic with no familial relation. There's even a YouLookFamiliar moment as one of the medics tells him that they found Shawn's corpse and that he looks like Andrew, resulting in a RacialFaceBlindness moment.]]
23* BigBad: Victor Crowley, the maniac killing everybody in the Louisiana swamps.
24* TheBigEasy: The entirety of the series takes place in a swamp around New Orleans.
25* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Subverted. [[spoiler:The Asian boat driver Shawn is the fourth one to bite it, while the black guy Marcus makes it to the final three. Also subverted in ''Hatchet II'' as Rev. Zombie is the last one to die. In ''Hatchet III'' Deputy Winslow is third-to-last to die and in Victor Crowley Sabrina is the second-to-last to die.]]
26** Though, in the fourth installment, Victor Crowley [[spoiler: the black makeup assistant is the second to die, after the guy who fell out of the plane.]].
27* BloodierAndGorier: Each installment after the first film gets gorier and gorier with all of its kills. Even the first movie itself is MUCH gorier than any other slasher film of the 80s combined.
28* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:Victor climbs into the boat, kills Ben, rips his arm off, then pulls Marybeth out of the water screaming. Cut to black, roll credits.]]
29** The sequel reveals that [[spoiler:Marybeth escapes Victor.]] Hatchet 3 reveals that [[spoiler:Ben actually survived. Then Victor shows off his throwing skills....]]
30** Subverted at the end of ''Hatchet III'' with [[spoiler: Andrew being the only non-wounded survivor while Marybeth...it's hard to tell if she'll live or not.]]
31* TheCameo:
32** Tony Todd, at least for the first film. He has a much bigger part in ''II''. [[spoiler: Then there's also [[Film/HouseOf1000Corpses Sid]] [[Film/TheDevilsRejects Haig]] in ''III'' as the last known living relative to Victor Crowley, who also has the ashes of Thomas Crowley]].
33** [[CreatorCameo Film's director Adam Green]] appears briefly in the Mardi Gras montage in the first film, and appears yet again, suffering from a hangover in ''II'', then appears one last time in ''III'' getting brought into jail. He appears again as one of the pilots in the fourth film.
34%%** Englund's character in the first film along with [[Film/{{Frozen 2010}} Shawn Ashmore]] in the second film and [[spoiler: Ben]] in the third film. Tyler Mane pops up in the 4th installment to give some advice....
35** The fourth film, [[AntagonistTitle Victor Crowley]] has one in the post credits scene from [[spoiler: Marybeth]].
36* ChainsawGood: It's a slasher GenreThrowback, so chainsaws were bound to enter Victor's arsenal at some point.
37** Victor commits a horrible double GroinAttack with a gigantic redwood chainsaw in the sequel, combined with HalfTheManHeUsedToBe. OUCH.
38** [[spoiler: Comes back to bite Victor in the ass at the beginning of ''Hatchet III'' after he's pushed onto the running chainsaw by Marybeth, slicing him into two vertical slices. He gets better.]]
39* CleanCut: Resoundingly averted in almost every scene. Sometimes played straight due to Crowley's incredible strength.
40* ContinuityNod: The sequels have a lot of them, even just during the opening credits. The first three movies effectively all take place over the span of a few days, possibly in homage to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th movies in ''Franchise/FridayThe13th.'' Which also took place over the course of a few days.
41* CrosscastRole: Young Victor in the flashbacks is actually played [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1893111/ by a woman]].
42* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Just about ''every death in the series''. The people who get their heads split-in-half or cut off are the lucky ones.
43* DeadlyPrank: Victor is killed as a result of other kids throwing fireworks at his house, setting it on fire. His father tried to go in to rescue him but accidentally split his skull with a hatchet.
44* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: A mixture of both this and CListFodder fill the movies.
45* DontGoInTheWoods: It's Victor Crowley's swamp. Note: The authorities are actually GenreSavvy enough to make it illegal to go to Honey Island even if Sheriff Fowler is an idiot who disregards this.
46* DwindlingParty: The casts of each movie.
47* ExpansionPackPast: Victor Crowley. Albeit with a touch of UnreliableNarrator, and AlternateCharacterInterpretation for both Victor and his Father. Was Victor an AntiVillain, or a villain? Was Thomas Crowley [[spoiler: protecting his son, or hiding his sins?]] Between the two movies, there's plenty of evidence for all of the above, or a mixture of all of them.
48* {{Expy}}: Victor Crowley, to Jason Voorhees. They have extremely similar backstories, both are deformed children, that returned back to life to murder people, and both were even played by the same actor (Kane Hodder). This is actually lampshaded in the second movie:
49-->Chad: Hey, man. Who's Victor Crowley?
50-->Layton: Well, he's nothing. A local bogeyman story about a retarded maniac who haunts Honey Island. People just use it to keep kids away from the swamp.
51-->Chad: You mean like a Jason Voorhees or something?
52-->Layton: Something like that.
53* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The first three movies take place on three consecutive nights - one per movie.
54* FacialHorror: Multiple deaths throughout the films have this.
55* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: [[spoiler: Uncle Bob]] in ''Hatchet II''
56--> ''"Come on, you hatchet-faced fuck!"
57** In ''Hatchet III'' Hawes shows some spine & tries to challenge Victor to a fistfight with some shit-talking: "Let's do this you little bitch!" [[spoiler: Only to get said spine & skull ripped out through his stomach.]]
58* GenreThrowback: To '80s slasher flicks.
59* {{Gorn}}: Let's put it this way. A large percentage of the tropes on this page involve ways in which characters die, get injured, or spill blood.
60* GoryDiscretionShot: The camera cuts to black [[spoiler:[[BolivianArmyEnding and goes to the credits]]]] just before [[spoiler:Marybeth's implied death. Subverted in that the sequel reveals that she survived.]]
61** [[spoiler: Uncle Bob's]] death in the second film.
62** Played Straight, then Averted in ''Hatchet III'' with [[spoiler: Hamilton's death.]]
63* GrievousHarmWithABody: A Victor Crowley staple. See individual films for specific instances
64* TheGrotesque: Victor Crowley.
65* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Jim]] gets chopped in half with a hatchet through his shoulder.
66** Ainsley gets ripped in two in the opening.
67** [[spoiler:John and Vernon]] in ''Hatchet II''. Also, [[spoiler:Reverend Zombie, though this isn't what kills him.]]
68** Along with a [[RedShirt Red Shirt Cop]] in ''Hatchet III''
69* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Shannon tilts her head and [[JawDrop lets her mouth hang open]] once she sees Doug filming Misty and Jenna ([[SexyDiscretionShot off-camera]]) and realizes that he's a porn director.
70* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Marybeth is finally mortally wounded by Crowley in the third film, but manages to take him out before she expires. Confirmed in the fourth film.]]
71** [[spoiler:Not so fast....]]
72* HighPressureBlood: By the gallon.
73* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the original, [[spoiler:Victor is (temporarily) killed when he runs into a pole he threw into Ben's foot, impaling himself through the neck.]] In the sequel, [[spoiler:he discards his own hatchet to finish off Rev. Zombie and Marybeth uses it to demolish his face.]]
74** Also from ''Hatchet II'' [[spoiler:Reverend Zombie believed that the death of Marybeth's Uncle Bob would end things so he locks him in Victor's shack. Unfortunately, Marybeth's real uncle died from cancer years ago.]]
75** In "Hatchet II" Victor used a huge ass chainsaw to slice [[spoiler: Vernon and John]] vertically in two. [[spoiler: In the intro of ''Hatchet III'', he ends up falling onto the chainsaw and is cut in two himself.]]
76* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Mardi Gras and the next two days after are the settings for the movies.
77* HopeSpot: Marybeth, Ben and Marcus set Victor on fire and think they've won... and then it starts raining.
78** Happens AGAIN in ''Hatchet III'' when [[spoiler: Marybeth and Amanda try giving him the ashes of his dad, hopefully to end him for good... Then Deputy Windslow shoots him... Not a smart move.]]
79* ImmuneToBullets: They might as well be water pistol shots for all the damage they do.
80* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Jenna]] gets killed this way.
81** [[spoiler: Marybeth]] is given the same treatment in ''Hatchet III''... [[spoiler: Though she might not be dead.]]
82* ImplacableMan: Victor gets shot, stabbed with a pitchfork, set on fire and [[spoiler:impaled through the neck]], and he still doesn't die. Justified in that he's a ghost... thing. While these acts were enough to slow down/incapacitate him in the first movie, by the time ''Hatchet III'' occurred he was walking through multiple rounds from a small police force. Perhaps he was stronger due to anger from the events of the previous 2 nights.
83* ImprobableUseOfAWeapon: In ''Hatchet II'', Victor sits on [[spoiler:Chad]] and hits him in the face with the top of his hatchet (the dull part) [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill 30 times!]]
84* InertialImpalement: [[spoiler:Victor]] accidentally skewers himself on a metal pole during the climax of the first film.
85* IntercontinuityCrossover: With ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', and with Adam Green's other film ''Film/{{Frozen 2010}}'' and ''Film/BehindTheMaskTheRiseOfLeslieVernon''.
86* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Or nearly abouts.
87* JawBreaker: Multiple times throughout Hatchet 1 & 2. Now we can add pt. 4 to the list.
88* KilledMidSentence: Happens several times.
89* LudicrousGibs: EVERYBODY
90* MadeOfPlasticine: Most of Victor's victims have a number of limbs removed with ease.
91** Even Victor Crowley himself isn't immune to this, as [[spoiler:running into a pole is sufficient enough to cause his impalement, and tiny little Marybeth is able to turn his face into pudding with multiple hatchet strikes.]]
92* NeckSnap: A common Victor murder method.
93* NotQuiteDead: PlayedForLaughs, more than once.
94* NothingIsScarier:
95* NumberedSequels
96** Subverted with part four, becoming an AntagonistTitle.
97* OffWithHisHead:
98** The fate of [[spoiler:Shawn, Doug, Misty, and Shannon]]. The latter gets her head ''torn in half''. Damn, Victor sure does like his decapitations.
99** Then he does the same in the sequel to [[spoiler:Layton and Jack Cracker]]. The former while [[OutWithABang having sex with his ex]] and the latter by getting choked hard enough with his own entrails to pop it off.
100** Happens again in ''Hatchet III'' where A LOT of the deaths involve heads being removed. One poor bastard gets his head ''Belt Sanded'' off.
101** As of "Victor Crowley" it's safe to say that Vic enjoys taking folks' heads off. If the victim is lucky that's the only thing he does....
102* OffscreenTeleportation: The preferred method of travel for vengeful ghost.
103* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Both actresses who play Marybeth have their Dixie accents slip a few times. It's also done in character by Parry Shen in both films.
104* OneWordTitle: Hatchet, Hatchet II, and Hatchet III.
105* TheOtherDarrin: Danielle Harris plays Marybeth in the sequels after Creator/TamaraFeldman in the original film.
106* PeekABooCorpse: Very commonly happens.
107* {{Phlegmings}}: This too.
108* PigMan: One of the kids in the flashback depicting Victor's death is dressed as one.
109** That comes back in a big way as the kid with the pig mask [[spoiler: was Samson, Marybeth's dad]].
110* PoliceAreUseless: Sheriff Fowler finds out 30 people are missing, presumed killed, and immediately arrests his only (very obviously traumatized) witness. He also refuses to even consider Victor Crowley's existence even as evidence rapidly piles up.
111* {{Reconstruction}}: Of the slasher genre, after ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'''s DeconstructiveParody of it followed by over a decade of PostModernism.
112* SequelEscalation: The sequel's reel at [=ComicCon=] showed eight deaths, almost as many as there were in the original movie. The director promptly revealed that ''they hadn't even seen '''half''' of all the deaths that they had planned''. '''Hatchet III''''s body count almost doubles the first 2 films combined 'though a few occur off-screen.
113* SequelHook: The fourth film [[AntagonistTitle Victor Crowley]], ends on [[spoiler: Marybeth saying "I've been waiting for you, motherfucker!"]].
114** Creator/KaneHodder has gone as far as saying ''Hatchet 2'' is the best horror film he's ever worked on.
115* ShoutOut: "Does anyone wanna explain why [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Jamie's got a gun]]?"
116** There are also lots of references to the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films.
117** One guy says that where he comes from the local boogeyman is named [[Film/BehindTheMaskTheRiseOfLeslieVernon Leslie Vernon]].
118* SlasherMovie: A loving homage to the genre and particularly ''Franchise/FridayThe13th.''
119* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: While the film is essentially a straight slasher flick, it has more comic relief than most, and its killings are so absurdly over-the-top it seems clear that the creators are being at least a bit tongue-in-cheek about the whole thing.
120* SplatterHorror: These films are ''bloody'', between the throwback slasher aesthetic, the monstrously strong unkillable antagonist, the gallons of the red stuff being splashed around, and a whole bunch of characters ranging from flat to aggressively unlikeable, all of whom don't seem to be terribly attached to their limbs or internal organs. The tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top nature of these kills along with the sheer creativity of murder methods (including a belt sander, an extra-long chainsaw, an outboard motor, and just Crowley's bare hands) drop-kick the gore well into splatstick territory.
121* StealthHiBye
122* TakeThat: The tagline boasts that the movie is "[[PatrioticFervor old school American horror]]" and that it isn't [[TheRemake a remake]], a {{sequel}}, or [[ForeignRemake based on a Japanese horror movie]].
123** Done in-universe when Sheriff Fowler dismisses Marybeth's claims of Victor Crowley, telling her that it all sounds like something from a stupid horror movie series. What really sells it is the reaction of [[spoiler:The Drunken Guy played by Hatchet creator Adam Green]] to hearing that.
124* TalkToTheFist: Victor loves doing these.
125* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: A lot of the deaths involve this trope, but a notable example is at the very end of ''Hatchet II'', [[spoiler:Marybeth makes sure Victor is good and dead by hacking his face into pulp with his own hatchet and then shooting what's left of his head with a shotgun. [[ImplacableMan Do you blame her, though?]]]]
126* TokenMinority: Two of them -- the TokenBlackFriend Marcus and the Asian boat driver Shawn.
127* TrailersAlwaysLie: Trailers make the film seem more serious than it is.
128* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Nearly every death in ''Hatchet 3'' is shown in the red band version.
129* {{Troperiffic}}
130* TrophyRoom: Victor's house is full of relics of his previous victims.
131* VillainBasedFranchise: To the point where the fourth film is simply titled ''Victory Crowley''. While the first three films do have a recurring heroine in Marybeth, she's recast in the second film and absent from the fourth [[spoiler:outside TheStinger]].
132* VomitIndiscretionShot: Shown twice. And again in the sequel. And the third installment. Now the fourth.
133* WeaponTitle: All except the fourth installment.
134* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: Said by Ben right after the HopeSpot.
135** Also said by Reverend Zombie in ''Hatchet II'', when he sees [[spoiler:his plot to get rid of Victor was a failure]].
136** Then it's said again in ''Hatchet III'', making this a case of ArcWords, by [[spoiler:[[TheCameo a one-armed Ben]], who after surviving two whole days and nights after losing his limb, gets a hatchet to the face by Victor]].
137* YouKilledMyFather: Marybeth's motivation to find a way to vanquish Victor. Well, that and losing her brother to him too.
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141* AgonyOfTheFeet: Crowley takes off [[spoiler:Shawn's]] left foot with a single swipe of a shovel. He later throws a gate pole into [[spoiler:Ben's]] right foot.
142* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: The reason why Ben's ex left him.
143* AlphaBitch: Both Misty and Jenna.
144* AmbiguouslyBi: Jenna is introduced making out with Misty [[GirlOnGirlIsHot for a porno film]], and later flirts with Marcus. However, she and Misty hate each other and are only doing it for the cash, so it's not clear if she's willing to sleep with women in her free time or [[SituationalSexuality just wanted the money]].
145* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with [[spoiler:Jenna]], who gets the skin on her lower lip and chin ripped off with a sand belt.
146* BlatantLies: "We're not sinking!"
147* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[spoiler:Victor's last act is coughing blood into Ben's face… or is it?]]
148* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Jenna is a NYU graduate who is clearly upset that she's had to stoop to doing softcore porn. [[spoiler:Only she was lying about being an NYU grad; she actually went to Hofstra University.]]
149** This joke becomes a lot funnier if you grew up in Long Island and know about the reputation that [[spoiler:Hofstra has as a party school.]]
150* CueCard: Shawn relies on these during the boat trip.
151* {{Fanservice}}: The first appearance of Misty and Jenna has them topless and making out. We get a few more shots of their bare breasts before the end of the movie. And then there's the Mardi Gras montage at the beginning…
152* DeathByCameo: Robert England stops by to help kick-off & set the tone for the franchise.
153* DopeSlap: Used by Marcus in an attempt to get Ben to be less awkward when talking up Marybeth. A montage of them features in the gag reel.
154* DoomedHurtGuy: Jim after the alligator attack.
155* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The first movie ends with the last two survivors of the party impaling the killer. They then get on a boat to go home but Marybeth falls into the water. Desperately trying not to drown she grabs Ben's hand… only to find Victor holding his severed left forearm. Both survivors are revealed to survive in later films, but still, ''harsh.'']]
156* DumbBlonde: Misty is an idiot. She wasn't hired for her brains though.
157* FlippingTheBird: Done by Marcus when asked to come down from the tree he just climbed in terror.
158* FreudianSlip: When Shannon asks what kind of movie Doug is directing, Doug asks her and her husband Jim if they've ever heard of ''Bayou Beavers''. Jim replies yes, then suddenly switches his answer to no.
159* GardeningVarietyWeapon: Ben grabs a pitchfork from Crowley's shack and uses it as a weapon against him. Marybeth later stabs Victor in the back with a weeding fork.
160* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Jenna and Misty are introduced making out for a porno film.
161* HoistHeroOverHead: Victor does this to [[spoiler:Jenna]] before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling her on a planted shovel]].
162* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Victor impales [[spoiler:Jenna]] on the handle of a shovel. [[spoiler:Victor himself is later impaled on the steel picket he [[AgonyOfTheFeet drove through Ben's foot]].]]
163* ItsQuietTooQuiet: Invoked by Marybeth shortly before [[spoiler:Misty]] is revealed to be dead.
164* {{Jerkass}}: Doug Shapiro, the sleazy porn director, who turns out to be [[spoiler:a marketing manager named Samuel Barrett who posed as a porn director only to build his own porn collection]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he's from]] [[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]].
165* KidsAreCruel: While [[MrExposition explaining Victor Crowley's origins]], Marybeth mentions that Victor was ruthlessly bullied by other kids.
166--> "Victor was scared to death of other kids. They teased him and tortured him, like kids do. They were so cruel."
167* KillItWithFire: Marybeth, Ben and Marcus try this in the first film. It doesn't work.
168* LameComeback: Misty, repeatedly.
169* MrExposition: Marybeth.
170* ReusableLighterToss: Ben tosses Misty's zippo at Victor Crowley to turn him into a ManOnFire after first dousing him in gasoline.
171* ShovelStrike: Marybeth acquires one from the shack and only gets to use it once before [[spoiler:Crowley uses it to kill Shawn and Jenna]].
172* TaxidermyIsCreepy: Victor's shack is filled with all kinds of creepy, partially-taxidermied critters: one of which proves to be NotQuiteDead when Ben goes to move it.
173* TokenBlackFriend: Marcus is Ben's and gives up his vacation [[spoiler:and life]] to cheer his friend up.
174* ValleyGirl: Misty is a DumbBlonde parody of one.
175* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never see what happens to Ben at the end of the first film, though he's considered dead. [[spoiler:See also YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe]]
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178[[folder: Hatchet II]]
179* AssholeVictim: Hardly anyone shed a tear when Victor killed [[spoiler: Reverend Zombie ]] during the climax.
180* BadassBiker: One of the hunters.
181* BigBad: [[spoiler: Reverend Zombie turns out to be one as well.]]
182* BloodierAndGorier: This movie makes the first film look tame by comparison, it was even released unrated in theatres but was literally pulled after just one weekend due to how gory this movie was. Although it's nothing compared to the next film that comes after.
183* CanonWelding:
184** With ''Film/Frozen2010''. When Marybeth walks into Reverend Zombie's shop, he's watching a TV news report in which Parker, the FinalGirl of that film, is being interviewed and says "[[ImNotDoingThatAgain I'm never going skiing again]]."
185** Another character also remarks that he came from a town called Glen Echo, and that his local slasher legend was of one [[Film/BehindTheMaskTheRiseOfLeslieVernon Leslie Vernon]].
186* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: [[spoiler: Marybeth obliterating Victor's head with his own hatchet.]]
187* EyeScream: In the opening, Marybeth escapes Victor by shoving her finger into his eye.
188* {{Greed}}: The central motive of Reverend Zombie, who wants to open up the swamp to ghost tours again. Also, Marybeth's father and why he was in the swamp despite the fact he really should have known better.
189* GrievousHarmWithABody: While being disemboweled would be fatal enough, Victor goes the extra mile and [[spoiler:wraps Jack Cracker's intestines around his neck and squeezes until his head pops off]].
190* LetsSplitUpGang: Lampshaded when the hunters decide to split up and Uncle Bob, the resident OnlySaneMan, points out that even without a hatchet-wielding ghost on the loose, a bunch of trigger-happy guys with guns wandering around in a dark swamp is probably a bad idea. Naturally, he is ignored.
191* SendInTheSearchTeam: They're more of a hunting party. It is a plot point in ''Hatchet III'', though.
192* StockScream: In the sequel, Cletus lets out a Wilhelm Scream when Victor Crowley yanks him off of a boat and into the water.
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195[[folder: Hatchet III]]
196* BloodierAndGorier: While ''Hatchet II'' was this to the first film, this movie cranks up the gore to eleven!!
197* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Marybeth spends most of III in jail and then in a parallel storyline tracking Victor Crowley's origin. Sheriff Fowler is the protagonist for the majority of the story before getting killed off only for Marybeth to take back her Protagonist status.]]
198* DarkerAndEdgier: This movie is actually a lot more grim and serious (while having its share of comedic moments) in comparison to the other films.
199* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: [[spoiler:How Andrew survived throughout ''Hatchet III''.]]
200* ImMelting: [[spoiler:Victor Crowley after his father's ashes are tossed on him.]]
201* LampshadeHanging: [[invoked]] This is compounded with RageAgainstTheAuthor, SelfDeprecatingHumor, and a TakeThat early in the film, when the local sheriff hangs a gigantic lampshade on the IdiotPlot decisions that made the first two films possible:
202--> "That has to be the stupidest story and some of the most idiotic and contrived decision making I've ever heard."
203** The punchline is that the drunk in the next cell gives him a shocked look because he's played by the writer of the series.
204* PoliceAreUseless: The entire Jefferson Parish Police force are brutally wiped out by Victor, especially the SWAT Team ending up getting [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]].
205** This may not seem like a big deal but consider this: In their 1st encounter, Marybeth was able to incapacitate him for several minutes with a single bullet to the chest. He then gets beat-up some more over the course of 2 straight nights (set on fire, more gunshots, face caved in, cut-in-half, etc.). For perhaps the first time in his decades-long killing spree, some of his victims were able to fight back. It's possible that the more pain he experiences, the angrier he gets which allows him to take even more damage. By the 3rd evening he's probably the most pissed-off he's ever been, so multiple rounds from various weapons were merely an inconvenience by that point. He's like...a psychotic-Hulk.
206* UselessProtagonist: Andrew does nothing except freak out/run away/hide when he sees Crowley. Justified as... well, wouldn't you be doing the same? [[spoiler:He ends up surviving the movie.]]
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210* AssShove: [[spoiler:Victor shoves Kathleen's severed arm so far up her, it protrudes from her mouth.]]
211** [[spoiler:It may not have entered that hole…]]
212* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Sabrina]] would definitely qualify.
213* BigDamnHeroes: Hilariously subverted during the climax.
214* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Andrew & Rose escape Honey Island Swamp, but Dillion had to throw Victor & himself into a jet engine in order to stop his newest rampage. Plus the curse has been renewed, so…]]
215* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Dillion may be a complete imbecile, but when push comes to shove, he is still heroic and helps out any way he can.
216* DeathByCameo: Tyler Mane has a ten-second cameo as a hunter that is decapitated by Victor Crowley in the opening scene.
217* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:The first half of the movie gives a lot of focus to Chloe, to the point you think she will be the final girl; however, she gets killed in the middle section of the movie by Victor after having her face slammed into a airplane window and head stomped.]]
218* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: We get to spend a lot of time with the unfortunate souls on the plane.
219* DistantSequel: This story takes place 10 years after the events of the first 3 films (''Hatchet'' came out in 2006).
220* DwindlingParty
221* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[spoiler:Kathleen gets her left arm ripped off as she tries to call the police]] and… let's just say Victor gives it back…
222* HesBack: Victor is accidentally resurrected by some overzealous independent film makers.
223* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Dillion throws himself & Victor into one of the plane's engines to save Rose & Andrew.]]
224* JumpScare: There are quite a few based around Victor's ability to teleport.
225* LighterAndSofter: While this movie still has as much gore as the others, the kills are way less graphic compared to the second and third films and are about on par with the first. It's also far more comedic than the first three.
226%%* MauveShirt
227* NiceJobBreakingItHero: You just had to make sure the words for the curse were as accurate as possible Rose & Chloe.
228* OffWithHisHead: It is a ''Hatchet'' film.
229* PreMortemOneLiner: "I would’ve had your babies."
230* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sabrina gives a vicious one to Andrew and after she is finished, Rose gives a even more brutal one to Sabrina.
231* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Sabrina]] runs off and tries to flee on a boat. It doesn't work out so well…
232%%* SpannerInTheWorks
233* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Marybeth is revealed to be alive and after watching a news report on what happened in the movie, grabs a gun and says "I've been waiting for you, motherfucker."]]
234%%* TakingYouWithMe
235* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Andrew]]… certainly did not. Though [[spoiler:Rose]] does get tired of Victor's shit and punches him in the face.
236%%* TheToothHurts
237%%* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom
238%%* WhatTheHellHero
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