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If ‘Hatchet 5’ Happens, Victor Crowley Will Finally Leave the Swamp

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6 years ago

January 30, 2018

Crowley Takes Manhattan?!

Not that slasher franchises need to boldly reinvent themselves, but we sure would love to see Victor Crowley slash up some fresh victims in a new location. The first three Hatchet films, along with this year’s Victor Crowley, all primarily take place in the same swamp, which has become a bit monotonous now ten years after Crowley arrived on the scene.

But the franchise will indeed find itself in a new location if Victor Crowley does well, says Adam Green, who teased a potential Hatchet 5 in a Reddit AMA this week.

“If there is a HATCHET 5, Victor Crowley will be leaving the swamp,” Green definitively stated. “Can’t say anything more yet but I purposely brought him back in this new film in a way where the rules have slightly changed. We’ll see if we get to make a part 5 in a few years!”

In his response to a different question, Green further teased the future.

“As you’ll see with VICTOR CROWLEY (don’t miss the scene that happens in the middle of the end credits!) the series is set up for more stories,” he noted. “I have a master plan and laid the seeds in this new one for where it’s going to go… but unfortunately in today’s new era where most stream films and too many pirate them illegally, we can’t be too sure that we’ll get to make more of them. We hope that we can continue making one every few years.”

Meanwhile, Victor Crowley heads home on February 6, 2018.

John Squires

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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2 hours ago

April 19, 2024

John Squires

Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.

Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.

The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).

Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.

Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.

Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.

In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.

Wolf Man 2024