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It wouldn’t have exploded, it would have been better to hit him

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During the climactic fight with The Hangman, Leon does not pull the pin on the grenade (the safety lever is still clearly in place). During the climactic fight with The Hangman after Leon doesn’t pull the pin on the grenade (the safety lever is still clearly in place).

Leon: What happened, Toots?

It wouldn’t have exploded, it would have been better if he had hit it. As low-budget VOD horror flicks go, Dread knows its audience.

Dread’s latest VOD release, The Hangman, meets all of these requirements — at a minimum

Get some psycho characters, turn on the red LEDs, start a fire, throw in some war red blood and everyone will have fun. The Hangman is watchable at all, a clever crime drama centered around a missing teenager who easily cuts through the pseudo-screams.

While the father-son situation deepens A’s story, the demonic story of Pakaruolis is suddenly forgotten

When the supernatural threat eventually returns, the story of the hangman’s murderous quest becomes not only confusingly circular, but almost entirely unnecessary. In fact, The Hangman lacks the true genre scares and features a startingly rare display of on-screen violence.

Die-hard horror fans may disagree

The eponymous villain barely lives up to his name, instead targeting small nooses to tie people up as if he were a less-than-friendly Appalachian neighborhood web surfer. The Hangman apologetically conforms to the genre and strangles the minimally decent material in Last Breath, ignoring the true horror of the sinister Appalachian drug dealers.