There's a maze of mayhem, the editing leaves a lot to be desired, and this flick is NOT worth watching MORE than once. Hopefully this will help those not afraid of spoilers to decide if they want to see it even one time, as well as to erase the need of those who fell asleep halfway through to spend more than another minute to find out what happened.
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Horror flick veteran Kane Hodder is the first shown island victim, beheaded in a throwaway scene. I'm not sure the movie is edited well enough to make it clear which is which among victims two and three; let's say Emily's biology prof, Dr. Argento (Mike Wittlin), is the second dismembered-on-a-table victim, and some random poacher (Teague Cowley) is the vivisected third party. ORCA fishing boat skipper J.T. Bates (the ROCKY movie franchise's Burt Young) is the fourth to croak, via a hook through his eye socket. Football quarterback Tim (Travis Schuldt) can't get out of the pocket as he's chainsawed to death (#5), with token black student Q (Wondgy Bruny) self-consciously defying convention, as he's KO'ed in the 6th rather than the opening round (by croquet mallet, no less!). Sheriff Stoker (Tony Burton) succumbs during the 7th inning stretch (pick-axed), with gay student Ricky (Justin Chon) becoming the third student--and 8th vic overall--to pass away, gunned down while singing "I'm Going to Live Forever" from FAME. (By the way, if you don't have a life, the "Movie Connections" section here mentions only one-third of the direct references to other flicks and TV shows made by characters in HACK!; you can perform a public service by jotting down some more while watching the movie, and add them to the list. Thanks.) Lesbian student Maddy meets her maker at the bottom of the island's well for the ninth notch in the killers' belts, with bearded nutso island homeless guy "free" Willy (William Forsythe) becoming the 10th and final "victim" thanks to a fairly mundane shotgun blast. Meanwhile, film-maker killer Mary Shelley (Juliet Landau) has been bitten to death by her niece, killer clown student Emily (Danica McKellar), who shoots Willie after Willie has offed her film-buff Uncle Vincent King (Sean Kanan). Emily's two surviving classmates, topless Brazilian exchange student Sylvia (Garielle Richens) and Emily's crush, Johnny (Jay Kenneth Johnson) manage to blast her corpse into the ocean before boating back to shore with Deputy Radley (Lochlyn Munro). Hope this play-by-play helps!
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Horror flick veteran Kane Hodder is the first shown island victim, beheaded in a throwaway scene. I'm not sure the movie is edited well enough to make it clear which is which among victims two and three; let's say Emily's biology prof, Dr. Argento (Mike Wittlin), is the second dismembered-on-a-table victim, and some random poacher (Teague Cowley) is the vivisected third party. ORCA fishing boat skipper J.T. Bates (the ROCKY movie franchise's Burt Young) is the fourth to croak, via a hook through his eye socket. Football quarterback Tim (Travis Schuldt) can't get out of the pocket as he's chainsawed to death (#5), with token black student Q (Wondgy Bruny) self-consciously defying convention, as he's KO'ed in the 6th rather than the opening round (by croquet mallet, no less!). Sheriff Stoker (Tony Burton) succumbs during the 7th inning stretch (pick-axed), with gay student Ricky (Justin Chon) becoming the third student--and 8th vic overall--to pass away, gunned down while singing "I'm Going to Live Forever" from FAME. (By the way, if you don't have a life, the "Movie Connections" section here mentions only one-third of the direct references to other flicks and TV shows made by characters in HACK!; you can perform a public service by jotting down some more while watching the movie, and add them to the list. Thanks.) Lesbian student Maddy meets her maker at the bottom of the island's well for the ninth notch in the killers' belts, with bearded nutso island homeless guy "free" Willy (William Forsythe) becoming the 10th and final "victim" thanks to a fairly mundane shotgun blast. Meanwhile, film-maker killer Mary Shelley (Juliet Landau) has been bitten to death by her niece, killer clown student Emily (Danica McKellar), who shoots Willie after Willie has offed her film-buff Uncle Vincent King (Sean Kanan). Emily's two surviving classmates, topless Brazilian exchange student Sylvia (Garielle Richens) and Emily's crush, Johnny (Jay Kenneth Johnson) manage to blast her corpse into the ocean before boating back to shore with Deputy Radley (Lochlyn Munro). Hope this play-by-play helps!