Hatchet III (2013)

After Adam Green's excellent first two movies, BJ McDonnell, who had been a cameraman for the first two movies, was appointed to direct and finish the trilogy. And as was the case with the first two movies, it's another 80 minutes of pure entertainment.

A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades. 

First of all I should give compliments to the cast, which is filled with people who are perfect for these movies and who perform with a lot of joy. Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams, Parry Shen, Robert Diago DoQui, Derek Mears, Cody Blue Snider, Releah Vanderbilt, Sean Whalen, Jason Trost and Sid Haig as the racist redneck. Rarely do you see a movie with such a huge list of actors creating a huge amount of entertaining characters. On the other hand there's an unfortunate role by scream queen Danielle Harris, whose character seems a little bit too ''forced''... It's basically a lot of ''fuck you's'' and angry faces and not much more (although this clearly is more of a script issue). 

As expected, Hatchet III delivers tons of real gore (none of that CGI shit)... It's brutal, over the top and not to be taken too seriously... Just the way it should be in a splatter movie like this one. Apart from that Hatchet III is also the funniest movie of the three. We're bombarded with funny characters and one-liners (I laughed out loud multiple times), without it being too forced. 

 Hatchet III is a brilliant ending to the trilogy and is also the best of the three movies. Every now and then it's as predictable and cliche as can be (guy turns around with happy face - I killed him! - Victor Crowley slowly gets up in the background and brutallly kills the happy guy), but who the fuck cares...!? Overall Hatchet III will make splatter fans the happiest people in the world for 80 minutes.

Fun Facts (Source: IMDB)

Series creator Adam Green prides the Hatchet films on their "no CGI rule". All make-up effects are done the "old school" way with prosthetics, make-up, latex, and silicone in order to give the films their throw back feeling and tone. CGI and digital enhancement is only used for such things as wire removal or fixing any camera issues that occurred while filming, but never to create the films' outrageous special effects. This movie was no exception to this rule and Green continually challenged the make-up effects crew by writing crazy death scenes and sequences that most any other modern production would have brought in computer generated visual effects teams to accomplish. 

Actor Parry Shen has appeared in all three Hatchet films but as different characters. In Hatchet (2006), he played Shawn, who worked for the Swamp Tours. In Hatchet II (2010), he played Justin, who was Shawn's brother. Justin also worked for the Swamp Tours. In this third film, he played a paramedic named Andrew. Andrew is not related to Shawn or Justin. A joke is even made in the film about how one of the bodies they find looks like him.  

Actor Cody Blue Snider (who plays "Deputy Schneiderman") started out as Adam Green's personal assistant during the making of Frozen (2010) and then worked as a production assistant on Hatchet II (2010) before Green wrote the role in this film specifically for him to perform.