Hatchet 2 Full Online Movie Review

Hatchet 2 is the brutally gory sequel to the 2006 original. AMC Theaters banned this movie for life due to it being too explicit.

Director Adam Green grew up during the 1980s … the golden age of slasher flicks. It was a time where nearly every weekend saw the opening of a new slasher sequel at the local multiplex. Classic movies like Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street all spawned numerous sequels with each trying to “out-gore” each other and their own previous installments. With the exception of the originals, each movie focused less on story and plot and more on mere body counts.

2006’s Hatchet was Green’s love letter to those bygone days. It was bloody, gruesome and hilarious with only the slimmest of plots. And it was a hit.

Hatchet 2, freshly banned from all AMC Theaters, is actually better than the original. In fact, we can call Hatchet II the best sequel to a slasher film ever made. The reason being that this isn’t just a sequel slapped together as part of an ongoing money-grab. This movie was planned and written at the very beginning. As a result it not only continues the story but also fills in missing pieces from the first film in a way that is smart and logical.

The movie starts just second after the last one ended. Marybeth (now played by Danielle Harris, who replaces Hatchet’s Tamara Feldman) is the lone survivor of the massacre at Honey Island Swamp. Dazed and exhausted after surviving the murderous rampage of Victor Crowley (played by hulking Kane Hodder), her terror turns to infuriation at the thought of her father and brother being torn apart by Victor. She decides she needs to get help and come back to the swamp to recover her relative’s chopped up remains and destroy Victor.

A broken-eye hillbilly comes across Marybeth and helps her out of the swamp. But soon he his killed by his own intestines and Marybeth is left by herself to enact her revenge. She makes her way to that shadowy character from the first movie … Reverend Zombie (played by Tony Todd). Even though he helped get all those people killed, he is the only one that knows Victor well enough to know how to kill him.

After a campfire meeting where the Reverend tells Marybeth about the true beginnings of Victor Crowley (fits the story perfectly), he recruits several tough-ass hunters and then everybody heads back to the swamp for the showdown.

What follows is an hour of the most imaginative, explicit, mind-blowing murder scenes ever seen in a slasher film. I cringed as certain parts of the male anatomy where hacked and ripped off their host. I know a little bit about how these movies are made, but I have no idea how the director filmed some of these scenes. And in the movie theater where I saw this (before the AMC ban) I heard real, audible sounds of horror from the audience. Never have I experienced anything like this (do NOT leave this movie early … that last 2 kills are already legendary).

Yet another reason why this movie works is because the cast is so good. Danielle Harris as the heroine Marybeth is perfect in her depiction of terror and anger. She is scared out of her mind but is still able to muster strength to fight. Of course she’s had a lot of practice from acting in all of those Halloween movies.

Several cast members you will recognize from other horror films. Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood), R.A. Mihailoff (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3), AJ Bowen (The Signal), Tony Todd (Candyman) and legendary Fright Night director Tom Holland.

Let’s hope that a 3rd movie was planned for this series.

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