Late 80s slasher Edge of the Axe not only features quite a few brutal, bloody murders, each involving several hefty whacks from the killer's shiny axe, but also the discovery of a severed pig's head, and the gruesome, decomposed remains of a couple of earlier victims, (which naturally pop into shot all of a sudden to provide some cheap scares). Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, it would be, if only the bits in-between the murders weren't so incredibly dull.
José Ramón Larraz, the director best known for his 70s lesbian vampire classic 'Vampyres', pads out the non-horrific parts of his film with some incredibly boring guff that introduces several possible suspects and has them engage in some particularly lame activities, such as boating on a lake and playing video games, whilst sharing banal banter (which I suppose at least has the effect of making the killings seem that bit more exciting); meanwhile, the town's useless sheriff makes zero progress in solving the case.
To make matters worse, Larraz can't even be bothered to include any of that staple of the slasher genre, gratuitous nudity—surprising considering that the two other Larraz films that I have seen so far, the aforementioned Vampyres and soft-core sex comedy El Periscopio, were loaded with T&A.
José Ramón Larraz, the director best known for his 70s lesbian vampire classic 'Vampyres', pads out the non-horrific parts of his film with some incredibly boring guff that introduces several possible suspects and has them engage in some particularly lame activities, such as boating on a lake and playing video games, whilst sharing banal banter (which I suppose at least has the effect of making the killings seem that bit more exciting); meanwhile, the town's useless sheriff makes zero progress in solving the case.
To make matters worse, Larraz can't even be bothered to include any of that staple of the slasher genre, gratuitous nudity—surprising considering that the two other Larraz films that I have seen so far, the aforementioned Vampyres and soft-core sex comedy El Periscopio, were loaded with T&A.