Edge of the Axe (1988)
A late entry in the eighties slasher cycle courtesy of director Jose Larraz. One of those films (Pieces is another example) where Spain doubles as California, although they'd definitely filmed out of a car window in California. However that's not to say it's a poverty row slice of movie making. It really isn't.
Production values are high and there are some great sequences of location filming including a genuinely creepy stalk and slash scene with gorgeous use of colour which brutally ends at a railway line. In fact all the murders are well done even if they are kinda samey. I mean. An axe attack is always an axe attack.
Some lengthy scenes where two characters type endless lines onto primitive computers are deadly dull but on the whole Edge of the Axe is a well made, fairly effective slasher film in which second time round i'd forgotten who the killer was and once again guessed wrong. Well it was one or the other, maybe next time eh?
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