Axes

[Cabrini Green]

By viewing Kubrick’s The Shining (certainly the best directed horror film ever and possibly the scariest, it is a modern masterpiece) again yesterday I came to the conclusion that Jack Nicholson is horror’s craziest ax handler. The hacking down of the bathroom door and the attack on the defenseless Scatman Crothers out of nowhere was brutal. So what are your favorite ax and/or hatchet work in horror?

Some others –
The brutal dismemberment of the possessed demon in THE EVIL DEAD with repeated blows with mind numbing effects.
The hatchet in the head death in FRIDAY THE 13th courtesy of Tom Savini effects.
The decapitation of the masked killer in PROM NIGHT.
The hacking of the little kids in their sleeping bags in SLEEPAWAY CAMP.

Honorable mention –
James Brolin’s ax heaving in THE AMITYVILLE HORROR.

[ICP RULZ]

How about Mrs.Vorhees getting her head choped off?

Peace

[stevereno]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ICP RULZ:
How about Mrs.Vorhees getting her head choped off?

Peace</font>

i thought that was a machete(&lt;-spelling?)

laurie cuting michael head off in H20

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[Antonio]

Wendy's chase sequence and Lou's decapitation in PROM NIGHT.

[BiggNewt]

F13th Part 5's axe swinging...

[Andrew Tom]

A bit off-topic...didn't Ash use an axe in Evil Dead 2 as well?

[Cabrini Green]

Annie Wilkes in Misery swings a mean one.
The Axe deaths and attacks in Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness.

Spoilers for TOURIST TRAP
Molly taking out Slausen in the back of the neck in Tourist Trap.


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[chibichibirei]

Axe wielding killer in Dementia 13

[Harry Hood]

FOr the life of me I can't remember an axe being used in Evil Dead Two...unless that's how he chopped off his girlfriends head...can't really remember though...

[countchocula]

The Tales From the Crypt episode, And All Through the House, features some mighty fine axe swinging.

[Notquiteallhere]

Thought Annie Wilkes swung a sledgehammer?

[Mr Dark-Light]

Ash does use an axe in Evil Dead 2, he kills the professors daughters boyfriend with it, after he becomes a deadite. You see Ash running out of the room and then running back into it with an axe in his left hand, and then go's about hacking the deadite with it. While Ash is doing this, you see the deadites green blood being splatted all over the room. I hope that helps, fellow shmoes.

[Ominous Phone Call]

It wasn't particularly great, but I liked the axing of Debra Strode (Kim Darby) in HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS.

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[zipperha]

Duh! How about the chopped hand scene in "Tenebrae" or the ax murder of the psychic in "Deep Red"???

Some people...

[teenkiller]

How bout the axe swung by Vic in FRIDAY 5. Pretty cool scene if you ask me. Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[avidd2525]

The bloody axe murder from Silent Night Bloody Night
Well that's all for now good journey my fellow schmoes

[FilmBuff84]

I reckon CHRISTIAN BALE's axe attack on JARED LETO in AMERICAN PSYCHO.

Also TARA REID's offing in URBAN LEGEND, even though both deatch scenes were more off screen.