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Hatchet II (2010)

Kane Hodder and Tony Todd are back, and Danielle Harris is now playing Marybeth. I love Danielle Harris, so this works for me.

We pick up exactly where part 1 finished, in the boat with Marybeth and Victor Crowley. She jams her thumb in his eye socket, they both fall out of the boat. A dude in a boat rescues her. I’m pretty sure that is Jack Cracker that saved her. He asks who she is, and she knows who her daddy is, and he kicks her out. He is livid. He can’t have anything to do with her. He gets his gun. She keeps asking, and he tells her to go see Reverend Zombie. So she has a mile and a half to walk. But he leaves Victor alone and vice versa. Jack finds the video camera of Doug’s from the original, with to Girls Gone Wild type footage. So yeah 2 pairs of tits and that second girl was stacked. Wow. Doug also tried getting a 14 year old to show her tits. Then there is a 2 girl shower scene, but no tits. Jack hears something. He says that he didn’t do anything, he didn’t know who she was. Well, Victor grabs him by the intestines and drags him back, that strangles him and pops his head off with the intestines. Yeah.

The music in the credits is a tad abrasive. I do like the shout outs to the original deaths in the credits at the very least. Minor victories, right?

She comes to see Rev Zombie, the great Tony Todd. Rev. Zombie hears of Sampson’s death, and that’s her daddy. On the TV is Parker O’Neil who was a character in the movie, Frozen. It was a very clever tie in and it is about her lawsuit with the ski lodge. We get a flashback about Thomas Crowley, and his wife Shyann. Sweet, more Kane Hodder!!! She had stomach cancer and it was slowly eating away at her. Shyann had a nurse, Lena, and as time wore on, Thomas got close to Lena, too close. Shyann saw this. He was sad while cheating, but he still did. After about a year, Shyann died. Thomas and Lena kiss and Shyann stands up and curses Lena, Thomas, and the baby in Lena’s belly. AWKWARD! When Victor died, a bunch of wildlife died and he was like a pestilence. Victor was born with tumors, and she died the moment that she laid eyes on Victor. People think he hid Victor to protect him because of his looks, but it was to protect his reputation and infidelity. We see the fire and the hatchet death again. So Thomas has a gun, and he comes to a house demanding that the kids come out, but they hid behind their parents. Thomas would die years later. Fishermen, Gator hunters, and fools would be murdered by Victor. Sampson was one of the 3 kids that killed Victor. Ohhhh, no shit.

She wants Zombie to bring her back there so she can get her family’s remains. He doesn’t want to, but she threatens to tell the police about his illegal boat tours. Zombie insists that he has some guys that he trusts to do this. He needs her to meet him at 2. Zombie wants her to bring a family member, like an uncle, and Zombie will bring her back. She reluctantly agrees. Dumb bitch. Zombie needs Justin to recruit some hunters. Justin is Shawn’s cousin, the tour boat guide from the original. He also is the same actor.

Uncle Bob comes to visit Marybeth. Bob wants to know why she is talking to the lowlife Rev. Zombie. His real name is Clive Washington. Is that a shout out to Clive Barker? Bob seems overly worried about her being with Rev Zombie.

SO the big meeting at Zombie’s place, we have a hoss, a dude named Layton, some chick that likes him named Avery, and more. Jordan and Cletus are 2 more, and Trent is the hoss. Zombie is offering $500 for those who get the job done. Zombie explains that they are there to hunt down Victor Crowley. 70% of the crowd get up and walk out. He wants Trent to stay, but Trent is afraid of trouble. Trent is gonna roll with them, but he gets double. Cletus asks if Victor is like Jason Voorhees. Hahaha. He says in his town, there’s a guy named Leslie Vernon. I assume that was a shout out to the very good film “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon”.

Cletus and Chad have a hilarious conversation. Vernon, our token black guy, is singing a song about chicken and biscuits. Holy fuck, he is funny. Wow, he just cracked me up again. Did they seriously just give him all the best lines within 3 minutes of each other? God damn, I am laughing. Time for everybody to move out. YES, time to break out into small groups! Whoever brings back Victor’s head gets 5 grand.  Cletus and Chad are together, Avery and Layton are together, John’s with Vernon and the rest are in a group, so Marybeth, Bob, Zombie, Trent, and Justin.

Cletus killed himself a gator, and Chad hears something weird. Both guys are worried. Chad gets got first. with a tackle and then a repeated bash to the face.  Nice. Justin is worried about Shawn. Cletus is running. He gets on the boat. He tries to start it up, and he is panicking. Victor is in the water, and he pulls in Cletus. He forces Cletus’ face into the spinning propeller.

Layton and Avery share some stories. Avery has an incredibly pretty face. Oh, they start making out. Heyyy, her nice big tits. Definite size upgrade in quality over quantity, although I do like small titties too.

The bodies are not where Mary last saw them. So she and Bob go up to the house. Layton is pounding her sweet ass from behind. Layton is beheaded, and Avery crawls away but gets a hatchet to the vagina, then to the back. I feel like I have so many jokes here. But hatchet to the vagina is amazing. Her tits one last time, a pleasant sight.

Back to the house, Bob wants to leave and get the sheriff. Justin is scared, and Zombie tells him to leave and go back to the boat. Trent is like, yeah, this isn’t good. Well, they hear shit and it’s too late. John and Vernon are now being spooked. Out comes Victor with a 5-foot long chainsaw, and he saws both John and Vernon from the nuts on up in half. Nice double kill. That may be the best of the movie.

Justin tells Marybeth about how her uncle was one of the 3 boys, so she takes off leaving Justin on his own. This will end well. Justin is hiding in the closet, just like Tom Cruise. He gets flung out and a hatchet to the back. Ohhh, but that’s not all folks. Victor started up the belt sander. Well, that goes to back of his head. We see brain. Yeah.

Victor is now with our last few. Trent is not taking him down but in a physical fight, he is holding his own briefly. Marybeth got tossed against the wall. Zombie is dragging Marybeth away in hops of satisfying Victor. Zombie locks Bob in there  Victor breaks Trent’s leg, then makes him bite the table, and he stomps the top part of his head off. Now it’s Bob vs Victor in a fight. Lots of blood coming out of the house as Zombie and Marybeth look on.

Zombie says that Victor is now gone because he got his revenge and now the swamp is his.  Mary says that she will tell everybody,  oh and Bob was not his brother, it was Sampson’s best friend. His brother died of leukemia. Out comes Victor and him and Zombie have a hoss showdown. He cuts through Zombie-like a tree. He just like ripped ZOmbie’s skin off. Marybeth has the hatch, and just takes him down and smashes his face repeatedly with the hatchet. His head is mush. She then shoots it and says “fuck you”.

End Film

So to discuss the movie is to discuss the original. This is infinitely gorier than the original, but it isn’t as funny, the characters aren’t as likable, but the story is right there. The upgrade to Danielle Harris really tied the room together, did it not? I think I simply enjoyed the first one better. This was a very well done sequel though. Not as many tits either, despite Mardi Gras still being in full effect.

Final rating: 6.5

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