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'Victor Crowley' Toronto After Dark 2017 Review: A return to form for a contemporary horror icon
October 23, 2017Ben MK
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With sequels, the law of diminishing returns is usually unavoidable. However, in the case of Victor Crowley, the latest installment in the Hatchet series, writer/director Adam Green proves that getting back to basics can be just what it takes to bring a beloved horror icon back from the dead. That icon, of course, is the titular Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder), the hulking, deformed and voodoo-cursed serial killer who has terrorized Honey Island Swamp for decades. Now, ten years after the events of 2006's Hatchet, Crowley has been resurrected — by YouTube, no less — to lay waste to a whole new batch of would-be victims, including the sole survivor of Hatchet's Honey Island Massacre, a talk show host and her TV film crew, a group of aspiring, independent filmmakers, and a swamp tour guide who thinks he's the next Robert De Niro. Granted, on paper, there's not much to distinguish Victor Crowley from the endless straight-to-video schlock clogging up your Netflix queue. However, make no mistake; with a game cast, a campy sense of humor, and no shortage of severed limbs and crushed skulls, this is the slasher movie you've been waiting for. |
Victor Crowley is receiving its Canadian premiere at Toronto After Dark 2017.
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