Edge of the Axe
1988 · Movie · 91 min · ★ 5.2 · 35% critics
A masked killer with an axe turns a quiet mountain town into a place of fear as bodies start piling up. While the local police struggle to keep up, two tech-minded young adults use early computer sleuthing to piece together the mystery before they become targets themselves.
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Details
- Original title
- Al filo del hacha
- Years
- 1988
- Release date
- 1988-05-20
- Language
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Critic score
- 35/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.2/10 (82 votes)
About
You may enjoy this if you like retro slashers with a whodunit angle, creepy atmosphere, and some memorable kills, somewhere between Berserk and Seven Deaths in the Cats Eyes; Not for you if slow stretches frustrate you.
Pros: eerie small-town setting; fun 80s computer angle; some brutal kills | Cons: slow pacing; uneven script; mixed payoff
Themes
- serial killer
- slasher
- northern california
- ax
Cast & crew
Barton Faulks
as Gerald Martin
- CL
Christina Marie Lane
as Lillian Nebbs
Page Moseley
as Richard Simmons
Patty Shepard
as Laura Simmons
- FH
Fred Holliday
as Frank McIntosh
Alicia Moro
as Rita Miller
Jack Taylor
as Christopher Caplin
May Heatherly
as Anna Bixby
Conrado San Martín
as Ayudante Sam
- JB
Joy Blackburn
as Susan Nebbs
Directed by José Ramón Larraz