The Axe Murders of Villisca

The Axe Murders of Villisca

In 1912, eight people were brutally murdered in their house. This house.

201778 min4.8 / 10

A paranoia-soaked haunted-house horror film that grounds supernatural dread in the real historical trauma of an unsolved mass murder.

Three ghost-hunting high-schoolers visit the Moore House in Villisca, Iowa—the site of one of America’s most grisly unsolved mass murders. After their private tour is interrupted, the group sneaks back in at night, unaware of the otherworldly terror that awaits them.

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