Even though Victor Crowley was filmed in secret and premiered as a surprise to fans in a special screening in Los Angeles, franchise director Adam Green has been pretty open about his plans for future films in the Hatchet series.
Two years ago, Green not only teased further sequels but also told fans on Reddit that they can expect the Bayou Butcher to leave the swamp in the next Hatchet movie.
Now, ahead of Horror Channel’s UK TV premiere of Victor Crowley (Friday 15 May @ 21:00), the fourth film in the Hatchet franchise, Green teases plans for several more films while also explaining what makes the wait for each so special.
“Given the success of Victor Crowley, it’s a safe bet that we’ll be seeing the Bayou Butcher paint the screen red again,” Green once again teases.
“One of the aspects of the original trilogy that I am most proud of is that the films fit together as one cohesive story, always starting on the very frame that the previous entry ended on. So just like how I had the original trilogy plotted out before we ever shot a frame of the first film, I had several films plotted out before I started shooting Victor Crowley as well.
“The biggest reason that the Hatchet series has remained so strong over the years is that the same key people have been involved with the making of each film,” he adds. “That is incredibly rare in this genre. We also don’t rush out sequels like they are being mass produced on a conveyor belt and my crew and I only come back to the series when we are all truly ready to do so. The secret to how we’ve been able to fall back in love with Victor Crowley all over again each time is that we’ve always put a few years of working on other projects in between making Hatchet sequels.”
Kane Hodder returned as the title character in 2018’s Victor Crowley, which took place ten years after the events of the original movie, where the slasher is mistakenly resurrected and proceeds to kill once more.
What would you like to see out of the fifth film? Or maybe you’d rather see Crowley return in a Hatchet series?
