BLOOD NIGHT Prerequisites (Part 2) - The Legend of Bloody Mary 8:26pm, October 27, 2009
The Long Island legend of Bloody Mary. There's a pretty good chance you've heard of it, or even have gone so far as to try it - speak the name "Bloody Mary" three times in the mirror. Do it, and you may summon her ghost. So the story goes. And while its myth has been twisted and used all throughout horror - from "Candyman" five times in the mirror, to Carrie and including its sequel The Rage, with their references to the underground house and the chimney that stands as its tombstone - there is much vagueness and variation when you investigate its roots.
With so many "Bloody Mary" films taking on the story directly, and others incorporating elements, one filmmaker from Long Island has taken it upon himself to bring it all together - the legend, filmed and based on Long Island (some in a real, supposively haunted, insane asylum) where the story took root - all the while filling in the blanks and grey areas with a definitive background that sets up the slasher madness called Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet.
Director Frank Sabatella: "I think what differentiates my Mary Hatchet from other "Mary" tales is the depth I added to her character. The existing legends are very vague. There are no motives for why Mary murdered her folks and no motives for why she returns from the grave to exact vengeance on others. In Blood Night, Mary is afflicted by a rare disorder that affects her psychologically and after years of hellish treatment in the psych center, her ghost has ample reason to return and wreak havoc on people. There is not much specific detail to the Long Island legend of Mary Hatchet, really as far as that legend goes - she murders her folks and dies somehow, and now haunts the area. Like I said, very vague - so I had to build alot of details around Mary's past and provide some events to motivate her actions. One really cool aspect of the existing Long Island legend that I did not use was the idea that Mary's house sank into the ground after the murders. Supposedly her house sank and now only the chimney sticks out of the ground where the house once stood. Its a really cool concept but it did not fit into the story I was creating for Mary and Blood Night. Id love to incorporate that concept into a future film though, if possible."
Blood Night plays out like a good Friday the 13th. Sex, a party with Danielle Harris in a schoolgirl outfit, and fucking decapitations galore. What puts Blood Night a half a star above most of your slasher fodder is the background provided to the urban legend, with Mary Hatchet played intensely by Samantha Facchi. If ever someone stepped up to own a role, Samantha did - stripping it all and pulling off a near 15 minute nude rape and murder fest topped with bulletholes to the forehead, along with a beautiful black, spreading puddle of gore beneath her dead head. The first 15 minutes of Blood Night is an adult, hardcore hatchet skullhacking that will brings tears of joy to a lot of you sick sonofabitches. Id like to hear back from any of you who see it and hear what you think. For some reason, the beginning just satisfies the shit out of the devil in me, and its something I have already watched three times over, just for my own mere filthy satisfaction. Go figure.
My review should be up in a couple of days.
Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet comes out on DVD - on Blood Night - October 30th, 2009.
To be fair - IT IS a slasher film, so you're going to have to swallow a decent chunk of time spending it with kids drinking and fucking and telling stories and nearly dulling the whole experience, but littered throughout where your payoffs should be (because we all know what we're getting into going in) there is ample blood and head stumps and eye goggling nudity. If the standard slasher scenario bores you to death (because we HAVE seen it 100 times) then steer clear, but if you know what youre going into and live for the moments, there's quite a few, and the pre-credit beginning sequence is just too damned fun to watch.
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