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The Hangman's Daughter follows the same path the original film when it is split in half between mexican gunslingers and takes a big switch over to gory vampire horror. It is set after the Civil War where Ambrose Bierce along with mexican gunslingers, religious fanatics, the hangman and his daughter, etc. take a rest at the place they coincidentally bumped into each other. It is the same old Titty Twister bar/stripclub/brothel and you know what happens. This is actually above average as most movie goes and it sure is better than part 2, but can't beat 1 due to the low budget and campiness. It was a nice effort to show us how Santanica Pandemonium was created, but it never goes further back. And its just more of what you saw in the earlier film other than a different time period. The DVD has a deleted scene that many FDTD 3-haters would love, it has Ambrose Bierce and the film director in a bar - check it out if you can.

The guy committed the murder so he could have a good documentary to be made out of, but this film has so many plot holes like a swiss cheese: How did the blood get on Jim Seurd's clothes if he didn't commit the murder. What ever happened to Steven "Johnny" Avkast? His body was never found. How did Jim Seurd die in prison?

It's obvious that this psychopath is the one who sent them the message on the IRC and Jim Seurd was probably a real psychic.

It was all a great idea for a mysterious documentary, but the film makers failed to explain several reasons. If the Jersey Devil did exist and this was not a murder piece for some psychopath trying to gain the spotlight, it would make sense if Jim got blood on his clothes, if Steven did disappear, and Jim died in prison mysteriously. They could have explained it all.

Rather than a switch from doc to regular film (why the heck is the picture still the same - in bad quality?) they could have the psychopath just leave his documentary camera running as he killed the woman. But we know this "Last Broadcast" documentary is a finished piece so he would have cut that part out.

I have a better ending - how about that woman tries to make out the picture and she sees red eyes and a row of sharp teeth? Yeah, let's leave the Jersey devil thing intact because their "clever" idea failed - it just doesn't fix with the rest of the film.

Or another way could be a doc within a doc within a film (like Scream 3) where the special effects could be cut out and the psycho would be filming a "Blair Witch Project" type of documentary and the film part would be the police finding the pre-produced doc in the possession of a man they just arrested. And at the end they could have shown the same man in the holding cell.

All this stuff could have been a better way instead of what these film makers just made. My preference would be that the Jersey Devil did exist in this film. The documentary had me glued on the screen because I was anxious to see what would happen (like a real documentary) and I got deeply disappointed anyway.

3 out of 10

The ‘80s cartoon series is given a god-awful big screen live-action treatment with Broderick as a heroic security guard badly injured that a scientist gives him a new body (RoboCop anyone?) - a machine that shoots out a variety of gadgets so he can fight a villain named Claw who has stolen a computer generated foot....whatever. Broderick is an unconvincing Inspector Gadget, Everett shows a different side of him which we don't want to see (Claw really should have been masked) and that nasty little Tratchenberg should have been replaced with Kirsten Dunst or someone BETTER...Miscasts, hideous performances, lack of humor and an atrocious screenplay just kills this incoherent, irritating and mind-numbingly awful film that provides plenty of product placements. It's hard to believe that this one made $90 million...and only lasted 78 minutes!