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| Jack Cracker | |
| Continuity: | Hatchet film series |
| Notability: | Supporting character |
| Type: | Murder victim |
| Occupation: | Doomsayer |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Honey Island Swamp, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana |
| Associations: | None |
| Relatives: | None |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Born: | 1952 [1] |
| Died: | 2006 [2] |
| First: | Hatchet |
| Final: | Hatchet II |
| Actor: | John Carl Buechler |
Jack Cracker is a fictional doomsayer and a supporting character in the Hatchet film series. Played by actor John Carl Buechler, he first appeared in the 2006 film Hatchet. He took on a slightly broader role for the film's sequel, Hatchet II, in 2007.
Biography[]
Jack Cracker was a strange Doomsayer who lived in the swamps of New Orleans who was reputed for drinking his own urine. Jack Cracker warned a tourist group about venturing into the murderous Victor Crowley's swampland territory.
In 2006, Marybeth Dunston was the sole survivor of Victor Crowley's murderous rampage. Jack Cracker spotted her in the swamps from his boat and brought her back to his cabin. Cracker tried to soothe Marybeth's trauma by offering her a jar of warm yellow liquid (you know what it is). Marybeth wanted to bring the police to Honey Island Swamp, but Cracker encouraged her to get as far away from this place as possible and never to return.
Daaaaaaaamn! That boy got strangled with his own guts!
Jack Cracker then learned that Marybeth was the daughter of Sampson Dunston - a man whom he had bad history with, and knew was at least partially responsible for Victor Crowley becoming the ghostly killer that he is. Enraged, Cracker forced her to leave his cabin, but suggested that she should seek out Reverend Zombie if she wanted to know what really happened to her family.
Victor Crowley had tracked Marybeth back to Jack Cracker's cabin. Although Marybeth had left, Crowley continued his cycle of murderous rage, by bursting into Cracker's home, disemboweling him, and then strangling him to death with his own intestines. Ain't no amount of bottled piss gonna help you out of that one!
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Jack Cracker was created by writer and director Adam Green.
- Actor John Carl Buechler is also known as a special effects artist and a director. Buechler directed the 1988 film Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, which is most notable for introducing Kane Hodder to the franchise in the role of masked mass murderer Jason Voorhees. In Hatchet, Kane Hodder also portrays Victor Crowley.
- Actor John Carl Buechler passed away on March 18th, 2019 at the age of 66.
- Jack Cracker suffered from Ptosis in his left eye, sometimes referred to as "Lazy eye", which is a drooping of the eyelid.
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- ↑ Year of birth approximated based upon the age of actor John Carl Buechler. No official year of birth is ever provided.
- ↑ This database operates under the assumption that the events of Hatchet take place in the same year as it was released. As Hatchet II takes place immediately following the events of the first film, this too takes place in 2006.