With Adam Green back in the director's chair, the fourth entry in this minor stalk-and-slash throwback Hatchet franchise is perhaps the weaker film in the series. Taking some appropriate swipes at survivor/celebrity culture, a ten-years-after cash-in trip back to the swamplands at the same time as some wannabe film-makers accidentally resurrect Victor Crowley via the voodoo curse through the internet means it is time for more squelchy physical effects, lame one-joke characters and knowingly obvious set-ups, but this time round the humour is irritating and thin and the film looks and feels less polished. Nevertheless, Kane Hodder remains a striking physical presence, and the finale is quite lively, but with nothing really new to say, Victor Crowley is an inessential franchise outing.
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