'Edge of the Axe' (1988) - José Ramón Larraz.

Even a lesser known, latter-day Larraz remains a far more appealing prospect than dozing through another identikill slasher by some idiotic, jump-scare hedonist. Only recently liberated from the grey market doldrums, sensational Spanish horror iconoclast Larraz's zesty, late 80s plasma-spiller, 'Edge of the Axe' is riotously reborn on HD! This delirious descent into eviscerating mayhem is a brashly entertaining, if occasionally simplistic, sick-headed slice of sinister celluloid! With its perky, pseudo Chris Rea score and sinister car wash lurking lunatic, this frequently ferocious flesh flayer begins audaciously with a most axe-ellently brutal slaying, and fortuitously our titillating master of ceremonies Larraz saves the very best 'bloody bits' for last!

The sleepy tourist town's bucolic, lakeside calm is sordidly shattered by the unprecedentedly savage axe murders of several, seemingly unrelated young women; their fashionably nubile bodies brutally butchered by the bestial belligerence of the green cagoule-clad Ghoul currently taking adrenalized water sports to a heroic level of super savage, athletic-splenetic, crimson-hued nihilism, hitherto unimaginable to the horror-loving public! 

As the heaving multitudes of manfully violated bosoms gorily burst apart in a vivid crimson swathe under the steely rigidity of the masked maniac's deadly penetrating tool, playful director Larraz will keep you guessing until the frenzied finale fatefully exposes the perfidious perpetrator of so many audacious axe wounds!!!! And if this grievous terror-tumult of body-rupturing horror wasn't explicit enough entertainment for all you gorgeously gore-addled gourmands, then murder maestro Larraz prognosticates the social isolation born from the diabolical internet, 2 whole years BEFORE the interwebs was but a flirtatious pixel in the mercurial mind's lie of eggs-traordinary egghead Tim Berners-Lee!

Not since that most imperious murder madame Lizzie Borden persistently perforated her husband's epidermis with such iconic severity has sinfully slashing 80s celluloid so effectively captured the quixotic blood-rage of a relentlessly rampaging axe killer! There's nothing axeidental about the systematic slaughter bloodily unleashed upon the unsuspecting folk of picturesque Paddock County, while tantalizingly twisted, there's a malign methodology to the masked maniac's madness! 

'The bravura slasher 'Edge of the Axe' gorily delivers a meticulously mental murder-fest, and excitingly remains an essential 80s skin shredder that cuts deeper than most!' - Rosalba Demented.

'I ADORE Random Axe of Violence!' - Weirdlingwolf.