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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop  I reckon 'Axe' is an acquired taste, but it's really one of my fave weird 70s horror flicks. I can see how it might come across as boring, but to me it just has a really eerie, detached quality - similar to his other one, 'Kidnapped Coed'. There's a point in the movie when the camera points to a dolls head on a piece of green carpet, and a discordant synth note strikes up on the soundtrack - that for me is the key to this film. If such an incongruous, pointless but somehow jarringly weird little fragment gives you a lift, then you've got this movie licked. |
I have to agree.
I saw it for the first time fairly recently and everything about it just clicked with me. The tone and atmosphere were wonderful and the simple, honed down story with minimal exposition was right up my street.
In its way, a very beautiful film.