Victor Crowley (2017)

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Victor Crowley Blu-ray


Can’t believe this film doesn’t have its own dedicated thread yet. Guess I’ll do the honors!

I watched the Hatchet trilogy a few years back and instantly fell in love. They’re precisely what I look for in slasher flicks, and as advertised, they do emulate that old school schlock, but with awareness. The gore has been second to none, the kills memorable, the proceedings hilarious. So, when they basically announced Victor Crowley (essentially Hatchet 4) by just playing the film (as they had made this one in secret), I had eagerly awaited the time when I could get it on home video. And well, here we are.

How do you people feel about this one?

Personally, I thought it was a decent time, but was lacking in numerous ways. I haven’t researched what the budget for this film was, but it can’t have compared to what they did with Hatchet II and III. Very few sets, and they were definitely on the cheaper side. Never really got to feel the full breadth of the swamp as we did in previous installments, as most of what we saw was very claustrophobic by design. A good chunk of the film takes place in one very specific area, and they utilize every inch of it to an astonishing degree.

The characters in this one are probably the weakest of the entire series. That, too, is seemingly by design, but Victor Crowley is using a bit of meta awareness to move forward, but I don’t think a majority of the cast sold it.

By the way, pretty exciting moment in the post-credits sequence, but I have mixed feelings about that, too.

I’m still glad I watched it, because it was still fun, but Victor Crowley is probably at the bottom of the list as far as Hatchet films go. Also glad I supported it, because I’d love it if this film was used as a springboard to gauge interest in future installments… and if Victor Crowley does well, maybe they can come back a bit bigger and more ‘authentic’ than this outing.