Edge of the Axe
There is nothing silent about the nights in Paddock County.
A grim 1980s slasher that uses an axe-wielding killer and paranoid small-town atmosphere to generate sustained dread, anchored by computer-age protagonists investigating the murders.
An axe murderer terrorizes a small Northern California mountain community, while two young computer-obsessed adults attempt to solve the killings.
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