The police take her away, and she is locked up in an institution. The kid clearly looks disturbed from the get-go, so it’s less than surprising when, just a few minutes into the flick, she takes a pair of scissors to her mom’s head and then goes after her dad with a hatchet. The film opens in 1978 with Mary Mattock at home with her parents. While the movie does use the tale as a starting point, it takes quite a few liberties along the way. Director Frank Sabatella cites that urban legend as the inspiration for his 2008 horror film, Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet. The house was so steeped in evil by that point that it sank into the earth until only a chimney protruded from the ground. As legend has it, a young Long Island girl roamed through her house one fateful night, axe in hand, and slaughtered her family before she also died in a similarly bloody manner.
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