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Axe murders; a girls thing?


Subject Axe murders; a girls thing?
Posted by oro-2
Posted on Sat Jan 5 10:34:19 2002


In BCaP twice as many boys as girls are killed and this pattern is also pretty much the same in other films with child murders involved and often are the murder of boys depicted more vicious and direct than girls murders with one exeption - axe-murders!
Of all the axe-murders I througsout the years have seen in films only a few of them are on children, but for some reason it only seems to be a fate for girls to be killed by an axe:
I know of three titles withe axe-murders on (small) girls, namely:
Beware: Children at Play (1989)
The Child (1977)
Black Past (1989)
I know only one title in the IMDb were a small boy is killed by an axe and that is "The Mutilator (1983)" but apart from the scene in question is a dream sequence then the boy is killed (with the axe) in the manner that his throat is slit by the blade of the axe.
Do you know of any other films with axe-murders on children, or do you have any "favourites" among these rare axe-murders?

Ole Ryhl Olsson
Holte, Denmark






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... what made you look up a title like this in the first place??


Ole Ryhl Olsson
Holte, Denmark

P.S. Did you have any "favourites"?

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Silent Night,Deadly Night was a damn near..Those little orphans almpst got it.

IF YOU HAVE TO ASK ABOUT THE PRICE OF THE UPKEEP,YOU CAN'T AFFORD ONE.

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... counts then we should list

Ba Xian fan dian zhi ren rou cha shao bao (1992) http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0103743/combined
aka Bunman: The Untold Story
aka Human Meat Pies: The Untold Story
aka Human Pork Chop (USA)
aka The Untold Story
aka The Untold Story: Human Meat Roast Pork Buns

as well. Several young children (girls) are slain with a meat axe - one is even decapitated in graphic details.



Ole Ryhl Olsson
Holte, Denmark

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Madman has a scene(flashback)showing Marz ax his daughter and son.

No pulse, no heartbeat. If condition does not change, this man is dead.

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... I almost bought this title - but nothing came of it in the end.
Soooooo I haven't seen this scene that you mention.


Ole Ryhl Olsson
Holte, Denmark

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Madman's a fun little slasher film. Some cheesey moments, but the film manages to create a nice atmosphere.

No pulse, no heartbeat. If condition does not change, this man is dead.

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.... has a child death by axe in it.
And in this case the child is not a young girl, but a young boy for a change.


Ole Ryhl Olsson
Holte, Denmark

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