(NEW ORLEANS May 24, 2012) – Variety has exclusively announced a number of acclaimed horror film alumni as the latest talent to join the ensemble cast of BJ McDonnell's HATCHET 3, the third entry in MPI/Dark Sky Films and ArieScope's popular slasher franchise created by Adam Green.
Derek Mears, best-known to genre fans as Jason Voorhees in 2009's Friday the 13th reboot, joins previously announced returning cast members Kane Hodder (as Victor Crowley) and Danielle Harris (as Marybeth Dunston). Mears, fresh from his critically-acclaimed role in Steven C. Miller's The Aggression Scale, will play SWAT Team Leader Tyler Hawes, a brooding, pompous constable sent into contain the carnage strewn throughout Crowley's Honey Island Swamp.
Joining him on the New Orleans-set film is Caroline Williams, star of Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Rob Zombie's Halloween 2. A familiar face in avant-garde cinema for the past 25 years, Ms. Williams portrays Amanda Walker, a fast-talking journalist who fancies herself an expert on the legend of supernatural stalker Victor Crowley.
With them in the bayou this time around are genre stalwarts Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs), Diane Goldner (Pulse 2 and 3, the Feast franchise), and The FP writer/director/star Jason Trost.