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Hatchet is a troperiffic 2006 slasher movie written and directed by Adam Green, who also directed Frozen (not THAT Frozen).

A long time ago, Victor Crowley was born in the Louisiana bayou horribly disfigured, becoming the butt of jokes among the other kids. One day, he is accidentally killed during a prank gone wrong, and his ghost continues to haunt the bayou. Years later, a haunted river cruise run by an inept boat pilot 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 New Orleans. Problem is, Victor's ghost still haunts these woods...

Hatchet was created as a throwback to the golden age of slasher movies in The '80s, and it shows. It gleefully employs all of the tropes used by said movies, all while cranking the 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, Victor Crowley, released in 2017.


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     The series 
  • Accidental Murder: Victor Crowley's father accidentally killed Victor with the eponymous hatchet while trying to chop through the shack's front door.
  • And Starring: All films are with Kane Hodder, and Part I has the "and" go to Robert Englund.
  • Ascended Extra: Reverend Zombie from part I is upgraded to main character (and antagonist) in part II.
  • Asshole Victim: 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.
  • Back for the Dead: 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
  • Backup Twin: Justin to Shawn in Hatchet II. 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 You Look Familiar moment as one of the medics tells him that they found Shawn's corpse and that he looks like Andrew, resulting in a Racial Face Blindness moment.
  • Big Bad: Victor Crowley, the maniac killing everybody in the Louisiana swamps.
  • The Big Easy: The entirety of the series takes place in a swamp around New Orleans.
  • Black Dude Dies First: Subverted. 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.
    • Though, in the fourth installment, Victor Crowley the black makeup assistant is the second to die, after the guy who fell out of the plane..
  • Bloodier and Gorier: 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.
  • Bolivian Army Ending: Victor climbs into the boat, kills Ben, rips his arm off, then pulls Marybeth out of the water screaming. Cut to black, roll credits.
    • The sequel reveals that Marybeth escapes Victor. Hatchet 3 reveals that Ben actually survived. Then Victor shows off his throwing skills....
    • Subverted at the end of Hatchet III with Andrew being the only non-wounded survivor while Marybeth...it's hard to tell if she'll live or not.
  • The Cameo:
    • Tony Todd, at least for the first film. He has a much bigger part in II. Then there's also Sid Haig in III as the last known living relative to Victor Crowley, who also has the ashes of Thomas Crowley.
    • 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.
  • The fourth film, Victor Crowley has one in the post credits scene from Marybeth.
  • Chainsaw Good: It's a slasher Genre Throwback, so chainsaws were bound to enter Victor's arsenal at some point.
    • Victor commits a horrible double Groin Attack with a gigantic redwood chainsaw in the sequel, combined with Half the Man He Used to Be. OUCH.
    • 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.
  • Clean Cut: Resoundingly averted in almost every scene. Sometimes played straight due to Crowley's incredible strength.
  • Continuity Nod: 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 Friday the 13th. Which also took place over the course of a few days.
  • Crosscast Role: Young Victor in the flashbacks is actually played by a woman.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Just about every death in the series. The people who get their heads split-in-half or cut off are the lucky ones.
  • Deadly Prank: 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.
  • Developing Doomed Characters: A mixture of both this and C-List Fodder fill the movies.
  • Don't Go in the Woods: It's Victor Crowley's swamp. Note: The authorities are actually Genre Savvy enough to make it illegal to go to Honey Island even if Sheriff Fowler is an idiot who disregards this.
  • Dwindling Party: The casts of each movie.
  • Expansion Pack Past: Victor Crowley. Albeit with a touch of Unreliable Narrator, and Alternate Character Interpretation for both Victor and his Father. Was Victor an Anti-Villain, or a villain? Was Thomas Crowley 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.
  • 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:
    Chad: Hey, man. Who's Victor Crowley?
    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.
    Chad: You mean like a Jason Voorhees or something?
    Layton: Something like that.
  • Extremely Short Timespan: The first three movies take place on three consecutive nights - one per movie.
  • Facial Horror: Multiple deaths throughout the films have this.
  • "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Uncle Bob in Hatchet II
    ''"Come on, you hatchet-faced fuck!"
    • 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!" Only to get said spine & skull ripped out through his stomach.
  • Genre Throwback: To '80s slasher flicks.
  • 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.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: The camera cuts to black and goes to the credits just before Marybeth's implied death. Subverted in that the sequel reveals that she survived.
    • Uncle Bob's death in the second film.
    • Played Straight, then Averted in Hatchet III with Hamilton's death.
  • Grievous Harm with a Body: A Victor Crowley staple. See individual films for specific instances
  • The Grotesque: Victor Crowley.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: Jim gets chopped in half with a hatchet through his shoulder.
    • Ainsley gets ripped in two in the opening.
    • John and Vernon in Hatchet II. Also, Reverend Zombie, though this isn't what kills him.
    • Along with a Red Shirt Cop in Hatchet III
  • Head-Tiltingly Kinky: Shannon tilts her head and lets her mouth hang open once she sees Doug filming Misty and Jenna (off-camera) and realizes that he's a porn director.
  • The Hero Dies: 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.
    • Not so fast....
  • High-Pressure Blood: By the gallon.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: In the original, Victor is (temporarily) killed when he runs into a pole he threw into Ben's foot, impaling himself through the neck. In the sequel, he discards his own hatchet to finish off Rev. Zombie and Marybeth uses it to demolish his face.
    • Also from Hatchet II 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.
    • In "Hatchet II" Victor used a huge ass chainsaw to slice Vernon and John vertically in two. In the intro of Hatchet III, he ends up falling onto the chainsaw and is cut in two himself.
  • Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Mardi Gras and the next two days after are the settings for the movies.
  • Hope Spot: Marybeth, Ben and Marcus set Victor on fire and think they've won... and then it starts raining.
    • Happens AGAIN in Hatchet III when 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.
  • Immune to Bullets: They might as well be water pistol shots for all the damage they do.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Jenna gets killed this way.
    • Marybeth is given the same treatment in Hatchet III... Though she might not be dead.
  • Implacable Man: Victor gets shot, stabbed with a pitchfork, set on fire and 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.
  • Improbable Use of a Weapon: In Hatchet II, Victor sits on Chad and hits him in the face with the top of his hatchet (the dull part) 30 times!
  • Inertial Impalement: Victor accidentally skewers himself on a metal pole during the climax of the first film.
  • Intercontinuity Crossover: With Hack/Slash, and with Adam Green's other film Frozen (2010) and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.
  • It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans: Or nearly abouts.
  • Jawbreaker: Multiple times throughout Hatchet 1 & 2. Now we can add pt. 4 to the list.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: Happens several times.
  • Ludicrous Gibs: EVERYBODY
  • Made of Plasticine: Most of Victor's victims have a number of limbs removed with ease.
    • Even Victor Crowley himself isn't immune to this, as 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.
  • Neck Snap: A common Victor murder method.
  • Not Quite Dead: Played for Laughs, more than once.
  • Nothing Is Scarier:
  • Numbered Sequels
  • Off with His Head!:
    • The fate of Shawn, Doug, Misty, and Shannon. The latter gets her head torn in half. Damn, Victor sure does like his decapitations.
    • Then he does the same in the sequel to Layton and Jack Cracker. The former while having sex with his ex and the latter by getting choked hard enough with his own entrails to pop it off.
    • Happens again in Hatchet III where A LOT of the deaths involve heads being removed. One poor bastard gets his head Belt Sanded off.
    • 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....
  • Offscreen Teleportation: The preferred method of travel for vengeful ghost.
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: 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.
  • One-Word Title: Hatchet, Hatchet II, and Hatchet III.
  • The Other Darrin: Danielle Harris plays Marybeth in the sequels after Tamara Feldman in the original film.
  • Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Very commonly happens.
  • Phlegmings: This too.
  • Pig Man: One of the kids in the flashback depicting Victor's death is dressed as one.
    • That comes back in a big way as the kid with the pig mask was Samson, Marybeth's dad.
  • Police Are Useless: 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.
  • Reconstruction: Of the slasher genre, after Scream's Deconstructive Parody of it followed by over a decade of Postmodernism.
  • Sequel Escalation: 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.
  • Sequel Hook: The fourth film Victor Crowley, ends on Marybeth saying "I've been waiting for you, motherfucker!".
    • Kane Hodder has gone as far as saying Hatchet 2 is the best horror film he's ever worked on.
  • Shout-Out: "Does anyone wanna explain why Jamie's got a gun?"
    • There are also lots of references to the Friday the 13th films.
    • One guy says that where he comes from the local boogeyman is named Leslie Vernon.
  • Slasher Movie: A loving homage to the genre and particularly Friday the 13th.
  • Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: 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.
  • Splatter Horror: 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.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye
  • Take That!: The tagline boasts that the movie is "old school American horror" and that it isn't a remake, a sequel, or based on a Japanese horror movie.
    • 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 The Drunken Guy played by Hatchet creator Adam Green to hearing that.
  • Talk to the Fist: Victor loves doing these.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: A lot of the deaths involve this trope, but a notable example is at the very end of Hatchet II, 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. Do you blame her, though?
  • Token Minority: Two of them — the Token Black Friend Marcus and the Asian boat driver Shawn.
  • Trailers Always Lie: Trailers make the film seem more serious than it is.
  • Trailers Always Spoil: Nearly every death in Hatchet 3 is shown in the red band version.
  • Troperiffic
  • Trophy Room: Victor's house is full of relics of his previous victims.
  • Villain-Based Franchise: 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 outside The Stinger.
  • Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Shown twice. And again in the sequel. And the third installment. Now the fourth.
  • Weapon Title: All except the fourth installment.
  • You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Said by Ben right after the Hope Spot.
    • Also said by Reverend Zombie in Hatchet II, when he sees his plot to get rid of Victor was a failure.
    • Then it's said again in Hatchet III, making this a case of Arc Words, by a one-armed Ben, who after surviving two whole days and nights after losing his limb, gets a hatchet to the face by Victor.
  • You Killed My Father: Marybeth's motivation to find a way to vanquish Victor. Well, that and losing her brother to him too.

     Hatchet 
  • Agony of the Feet: Crowley takes off Shawn's left foot with a single swipe of a shovel. He later throws a gate pole into Ben's right foot.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: The reason why Ben's ex left him.
  • Alpha Bitch: Both Misty and Jenna.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Jenna is introduced making out with Misty 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 just wanted the money.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted with Jenna, who gets the skin on her lower lip and chin ripped off with a sand belt.
  • Blatant Lies: "We're not sinking!"
  • Blood-Splattered Innocents: Victor's last act is coughing blood into Ben's face… or is it?
  • Classically-Trained Extra: Jenna is a NYU graduate who is clearly upset that she's had to stoop to doing softcore porn. Only she was lying about being an NYU grad; she actually went to Hofstra University.
    • This joke becomes a lot funnier if you grew up in Long Island and know about the reputation that Hofstra has as a party school.
  • Cue Card: Shawn relies on these during the boat trip.
  • 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…
  • Death by Cameo: Robert England stops by to help kick-off & set the tone for the franchise.
  • Dope Slap: 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.
  • Doomed Hurt Guy: Jim after the alligator attack.
  • Downer Ending: 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.
  • Dumb Blonde: Misty is an idiot. She wasn't hired for her brains though.
  • Flipping the Bird: Done by Marcus when asked to come down from the tree he just climbed in terror.
  • Freudian Slip: 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.
  • Gardening-Variety Weapon: 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.
  • Girl on Girl Is Hot: Jenna and Misty are introduced making out for a porno film.
  • Hoist Hero over Head: Victor does this to Jenna before impaling her on a planted shovel.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Victor impales Jenna on the handle of a shovel. Victor himself is later impaled on the steel picket he drove through Ben's foot.
  • It's Quiet… Too Quiet: Invoked by Marybeth shortly before Misty is revealed to be dead.
  • Jerkass: Doug Shapiro, the sleazy porn director, who turns out to be a marketing manager named Samuel Barrett who posed as a porn director only to build his own porn collection. And he's from New Jersey.
  • Kids Are Cruel: While explaining Victor Crowley's origins, Marybeth mentions that Victor was ruthlessly bullied by other kids.
    "Victor was scared to death of other kids. They teased him and tortured him, like kids do. They were so cruel."
  • Kill It with Fire: Marybeth, Ben and Marcus try this in the first film. It doesn't work.
  • Lame Comeback: Misty, repeatedly.
  • Mr. Exposition: Marybeth.
  • Reusable Lighter Toss: Ben tosses Misty's zippo at Victor Crowley to turn him into a Man on Fire after first dousing him in gasoline.
  • Shovel Strike: Marybeth acquires one from the shack and only gets to use it once before Crowley uses it to kill Shawn and Jenna.
  • Taxidermy Is Creepy: Victor's shack is filled with all kinds of creepy, partially-taxidermied critters: one of which proves to be Not Quite Dead when Ben goes to move it.
  • Token Black Friend: Marcus is Ben's and gives up his vacation and life to cheer his friend up.
  • Valley Girl: Misty is a Dumb Blonde parody of one.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: We never see what happens to Ben at the end of the first film, though he's considered dead. See also You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!

     Hatchet II 
  • Asshole Victim: Hardly anyone shed a tear when Victor killed Reverend Zombie during the climax.
  • Badass Biker: One of the hunters.
  • Big Bad: Reverend Zombie turns out to be one as well.
  • Bloodier and Gorier: 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.
  • Canon Welding:
    • With Frozen (2010). When Marybeth walks into Reverend Zombie's shop, he's watching a TV news report in which Parker, the Final Girl of that film, is being interviewed and says "I'm never going skiing again."
    • Another character also remarks that he came from a town called Glen Echo, and that his local slasher legend was of one Leslie Vernon.
  • Extreme Mêlée Revenge: Marybeth obliterating Victor's head with his own hatchet.
  • Eye Scream: In the opening, Marybeth escapes Victor by shoving her finger into his eye.
  • 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.
  • Grievous Harm with a Body: While being disemboweled would be fatal enough, Victor goes the extra mile and wraps Jack Cracker's intestines around his neck and squeezes until his head pops off.
  • Let's Split Up, Gang!: Lampshaded when the hunters decide to split up and Uncle Bob, the resident Only Sane Man, 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.
  • Send in the Search Team: They're more of a hunting party. It is a plot point in Hatchet III, though.
  • Stock Scream: In the sequel, Cletus lets out a Wilhelm Scream when Victor Crowley yanks him off of a boat and into the water.

     Hatchet III 
  • Bloodier and Gorier: While Hatchet II was this to the first film, this movie cranks up the gore to eleven!!
  • Decoy Protagonist: 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.
  • Darker and Edgier: This movie is actually a lot more grim and serious (while having its share of comedic moments) in comparison to the other films.
  • Fear Is the Appropriate Response: How Andrew survived throughout Hatchet III.
  • I'm Melting!: Victor Crowley after his father's ashes are tossed on him.
  • Lampshade Hanging: invoked This is compounded with Rage Against the Author, Self-Deprecating Humor, and a Take That! early in the film, when the local sheriff hangs a gigantic lampshade on the Idiot Plot decisions that made the first two films possible:
    "That has to be the stupidest story and some of the most idiotic and contrived decision making I've ever heard."
    • 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.
  • Police Are Useless: The entire Jefferson Parish Police force are brutally wiped out by Victor, especially the SWAT Team ending up getting curb-stomped.
    • 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.
  • Useless Protagonist: Andrew does nothing except freak out/run away/hide when he sees Crowley. Justified as... well, wouldn't you be doing the same? He ends up surviving the movie.

     Victor Crowley 
  • Ass Shove: Victor shoves Kathleen's severed arm so far up her, it protrudes from her mouth.
    • It may not have entered that hole…
  • Asshole Victim: Sabrina would definitely qualify.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Hilariously subverted during the climax.
  • Bittersweet Ending: 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…
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Dillion may be a complete imbecile, but when push comes to shove, he is still heroic and helps out any way he can.
  • Death by Cameo: Tyler Mane has a ten-second cameo as a hunter that is decapitated by Victor Crowley in the opening scene.
  • Decoy Protagonist: 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.
  • Developing Doomed Characters: We get to spend a lot of time with the unfortunate souls on the plane.
  • Distant Sequel: This story takes place 10 years after the events of the first 3 films (Hatchet came out in 2006).
  • Dwindling Party
  • Grievous Harm with a Body: Kathleen gets her left arm ripped off as she tries to call the police and… let's just say Victor gives it back…
  • He's Back!: Victor is accidentally resurrected by some overzealous independent film makers.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Dillion throws himself & Victor into one of the plane's engines to save Rose & Andrew.
  • Jump Scare: There are quite a few based around Victor's ability to teleport.
  • Lighter and Softer: 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.
  • The Stinger: 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."
  • Took a Level in Badass: Andrew… certainly did not. Though Rose does get tired of Victor's shit and punches him in the face.


Alternative Title(s): Hatchet II, Hatchet III, Victor Crowley

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