Director: José Ramón Larraz
Stars: Barton Faulks, Christina Marie Lane and Page Mosely
Genre: Horror | Thriller
MPAA Rating: UR
Running Time: 95 Mins
Tagline: None
This film Edge of The Axe is no exception to the rule. This movie follows that exact same story line, without any variations or alterations. The flick follows the story of a group of young adults living in a small town where no acts of violence ever take place. But, out of nowhere strange and weird murders start to happen. No one seems to know who it is, and no one seems to be doing anything about stopping this murder; specifically the town’s Sherriff, who wants to keep everything quite before a commotion occurs. Believe me when I say that this movie is no exception to the rule, it follows the same formula…only difference is the graphic scenes are bit gorier than your Jason Voorhees film counterpart.
Stars: Barton Faulks, Christina Marie Lane and Page Mosely
Genre: Horror | Thriller
MPAA Rating: UR
Running Time: 95 Mins
Tagline: None
The 80’s is perhaps remembered as the era that brought the best music to the market. Artist like Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, and Whitney Houston dominated the music industry. But aside the music, the 80’s will perhaps be best remembered as the era in which slasher films flourished. Year after year, slasher film after slasher film was released theatrically. Undoubtedly the credit goes to John Carpenter’s Halloween; the film that gave rise to popularity the innumerous imitations that came about in the 1980’s. From all the imitations, the one best remembered is Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday The 13th. It was this film that opened the door for a load of imitations following the same theme or plot. Typically, the story centered on a group of teenagers going on a road trip or arriving at a camp. From there the youngsters would either get high or start premarital sex and eventually get murdered by a deranged killer in gruesome ways.
This film Edge of The Axe is no exception to the rule. This movie follows that exact same story line, without any variations or alterations. The flick follows the story of a group of young adults living in a small town where no acts of violence ever take place. But, out of nowhere strange and weird murders start to happen. No one seems to know who it is, and no one seems to be doing anything about stopping this murder; specifically the town’s Sherriff, who wants to keep everything quite before a commotion occurs. Believe me when I say that this movie is no exception to the rule, it follows the same formula…only difference is the graphic scenes are bit gorier than your Jason Voorhees film counterpart. 
The film isn’t exactly memorable or anything of the sort, but it does the job of entertaining the viewer for the total length running time. Personally I can say that I wasn’t bored while viewing the movie. The only complaint I had while viewing this movie was the fact they didn’t give a background on the killer. Unlike Michael or Jason where you get an idea why they kill people…here it’s pretty random and unexplained. Then again, this movie was very random and pointless to be frank; the only redeeming value you will get is seeing people butchered up in graphic ways.
Edge of The Axe has only been made available in the North American market on VHS. Being that this movie is over 20 years old, the quality of the tape suffers gravely. I own a copy of this movie and its beginning to degrade in picture and sound quality. And believe it or not this tape goes for as much as 37 dollars a copy. However, if you are interested in seeing this movie for free you can do so by searching for it on YouTube. I will keep a link below just in case.
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