Sunday, June 19, 2011

Manio's Viewing Of: Hatchet II (2010)


You know what I hate more than anything? Creepy rednecks. Honestly. They just have some way of creeping me out, partly because of how many creepy rednecks I've been subjected to. The family in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, those creepy mutant rednecks from Fallout 3's Point Lookout DLC and especially the family from House Of 1000 Corpses. Everything about those things make me cringe. They're extremely creepy, and make me have a heavy distaste for rednecks. Well, not all rednecks just the creepy ones.

Hatchet II is a 2010 American slasher film written and directed by Adam Green. It is the sequel to Green's film, Hatchet. Picking up right where the first film ended, Hatchet II follows Marybeth as she escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling, killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. So, yeah. Marybeth (Danielle Harris) decides to go back into the swamp where the night before she previously escaped and witnessed everyone die in the most gruesome ways possible. Yeah, I can understand going back and giving your family a proper burial but really? You're going to go back into the swamp..at night when Victor Crowley is known for killing people? I'd rather go back when there's sunlight thank you very much.

Either way, Victor Crowley is all like "Fuck the tourists!" and starts butchering all the hunters one, by one. Some of this kills are incredibly gruesome and literally made me cringe with the amounts of gore in this film. Yeah, talk about a gore-fest. Either way, Marybeth eventually finds out why Victor Crowley is killing people, and she intends to stop his reign of terror for good. Sound familiar? I have to say the one kill that made me cringe the most was watching a man get his testicles sliced off with a chainsaw..that just isn't fun. At-least he didn't have to pay any money for the vysectomy. Not to mention there's an axe+vagina kill in their somewhere, be on the look for that.

Over-all, Hatchet II is an alright horror film and quite possibly one of the best I've seen in a long time. That says a lot. Sure, there's a DECENT plot in there but we all want gore, and death in our horror films and this totally delivers. People get fucked up, there's blood, guts, and a creepy looking hillbilly running around with an axe. Definetly worth your time, so I'll definetly reccomend people check this out. THUMBS UP.

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