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Reverend Zombie, whose real name is Clive Washington, is an antagonist in Hatchet film series. Although he serves as one of the supporting characters in the first and second films, he eventually became the hidden secondary antagonist in the second film due to his desire of taking over the Honey Island Swamp after he and Marybeth Duston have killed the ghost of Victor Crowley.
He was portrayed by the late Tony Todd, who also played Candyman in the franchise of the same name, Grange in The Crow, Captain Darrow in The Rock, Earl Jenkins in Smallville, King Deucalion in Minotaur, Shadow in Shadow: Dead Riot, Benjamin Juma in the 24 franchise, The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Dreadwing in Transformers: Prime, Darkseid in the LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes film series, Zoom in the Arrowverse, Space Kook in Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, Darkseid in the DC Animated Movie Universe, Luther Thompson in Scream, William in Tales from the Hood 3 and Venom in Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
Biography[]
Hatchet[]
Reverend Zombie makes a cameo appearance in Hatchet. Ben and Marcus knock on the door of his voodoo shop which is allowing tours to Honey Island Swamp, home of the infamous ghost of Victor Crowley. He tells them a slightly-stupid story and allows them to go on the swamp tour.
Hatchet II[]
Reverend Zombie returns as a major character in Hatchet II. After surviving the events of the first film, Marybeth Dunston arrives at his voodoo shop. He reveals to Marybeth an extended version of the Victor Crowley story. He reveals that before Victor Crowley was born, Thomas Crowley had a wife who was dying of stomach cancer and that her nurse, Lena had became closer with Thomas. Eventually, the wife put a curse on Lena and Victor was born horribly disfigured. This caused Lena to die giving birth to Victor Crowley. Zombie also reveals that Marybeth's father, Sampson Dunston was one of the three kids responsible for Victor's death.
The reverend decides to take Marybeth back to the swamp since she wants revenge for the deaths of her father and brother, Ainsley Dunston. He brings a group of gunmen with him including Marybeth's surrogate uncle, Bob. After Victor murders Bob and all the gunmen, Zombie reveals his plan to his right hand man Justin - the two other kids with Sampson on the night of Victor's death were Marybeth's uncle and a gunman named Trent Graves. Zombie’s plan is to have them killed, thinking that the ghost of Victor Crowley will just vanish if he has his revenge on the three men that killed him.
However, Marybeth reveals to Zombie that Bob was not her real uncle, just her father's best friend and that her real uncle died from leukemia when she was twelve years old. Realizing that this means Victor Crowley is still alive, Zombie turns to see him bursting from the wall of his cabin.
Zombie advances toward Victor and chokes him, but Victor kills him by chopping his body in-half and pulling the skeleton out of him. Shortly afterwards, Marybeth seemingly kills Victor by chopping his face into pieces and blowing the remains of his head off with Reverend's shotgun.
Hatchet III[]
Reverend is mentioned briefly by Marybeth during her interview with Sheriff Louis Fowler's ex-wife, Amanda about the events of the first two Hatchet films. She mentions his plan to have the three men responsible for Victor's death killed thinking the ghost of Victor would vanish if he had his revenge, describing it as "all bull-s**t".
Victor Crowley[]
A video of Reverend Zombie citing the voodoo ritual that was originally used by Shyann Crowley, Thomas Crowley's dying ex-wife, on the pregnant nurse Lena before Victor Crowley was born is played on Rose's cellphone, and this results in the resurrection of Victor Crowley.
External Link[]
- Reverend Zombie - On the Hatchet Wiki