MattyGibbs This is another low budget slasher that follows a well trodden path. It's not a particularly well done one either but is at least passable for it's genre type. It's the usual dose of nudity, booze and unlikable characters being butchered. The characters are all strangely bland as usually even in cheap horror films there is nearly always one decent character. Maybe it's because the cast of intended victims is higher than the usual slasher but whatever the reason you are almost cheering on the killer. The acting is pretty poor and the camera-work is a bit too shaky for my taste. However this is not a total write-off. There is plenty of gore and it does have a few squeamish moments and also has a few unintentional? laughs. This is by no means a good film but is watchable and that's really as much as you can hope for when you choose to watch a film like this.

rogerb-391-111246 parricidal Mary Mattock (Samantha Facchi) is constrained at sanatorium for much of her growing years – catatonic until one traumatic experience makes her go loony again, slaughtering the hospital staff and killed in process by police.After 20-years, the psychotic Mary 'Hatchet' has turn into an urban legend. High-school seniors commemorate Mary's death as blood night - partying and reveling all over the town.The night celebration will soon transforms into unbridled terror for one group of friends.Abundant of nudity & sexy shots smooth over the dull parts before the killings starts. Nifty gore effects considering the modest budget.Debuting writer-director Frank Sabatella has an eye for bloodletting (one victim's innards is 'spaghetti-zed') but lacks experience in other departments.

TdSmth5 Some years ago, a girl has her first period and goes nuts. She kills her parents. She ends up in a mental facility where as a teenager she's raped by one of the guards. Her daughter dies during birth. Mary flips out, escapes the facility leaving a trail of death behind her until she's shot by police.From then on seniors at the local high school celebrate each year "Blood Night" where they do all sorts of shenanigans. Now it's blood night and a couple of kids go to the cemetery and play the Ouija board on Mary's grave. Then they throw a party. More kids join and some start making it to the bedrooms. But suddenly some kids start dying. The surviving ones run into Graveyard Gus. He was with them at the cemetery telling them scary stories about Mary. But now that people are dying, he decides it's time do something- something he should have done years ago.It turns out that Gus used to work at the mental facility and now he has visions of Mary. She wants something from him. She wants her baby. So he and the kids brake into the abandoned facility and follow Mary's ghost. Going through the records they discover a secret and confront the killer.Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet is a fun East Coast B-movie, so don't expect award winning performances or fancy sets. It is clearly a homage to 80s teen horror movies- with plenty of nudity, sex, violence and gore, just what you want in a horror movie. If you want meaningless torture porn with a discolored look and some tough chick character but without sympathetic characters, gore or nudity, Blood Night isn't it. As with most East Coast movies, it's much better at portraying relationships and the acting is more natural, allowing for the personality of the actors to come through. It also lacks the moronic cynical race/gender/social agendas that plague Hollywood productions. Sure there are limitations when it comes to budget, acting, and direction. But nevertheless I found this movie very entertaining and fun. Performances aren't nearly as poor as some seem to think; Alissa Dean in particular shines. And the gore is also pretty good. Overall, recommended if you're looking for a fun teen horror movie done in the spirit of the 80s. Now this movie could use a sequel.

ruud-16 I found this movie actually not as bad as the rating and reviews made it out to be. Visually it's reasonably pleasing, although a pint or more less of blood being thrown across the screen could have helped giving the movie a more serious touch.The one thing that distracts from the fun is the very poor soundtrack. Surely a bit more budget there would have helped lots.Other than that, the pace wasn't too fast, but not too slow either. It's a usual student-type movie with the gratuitous unique-selling-points of sex ramping up to a nice movie for a Thursday evening when nothing much is happening otherwise.Still, nice enough if you're into a horror movie where you don't have to think much.