Ax 'Em

Ax 'Em (1992)

The Weekend It Lives

It Was Supposed To Be A Weekend Get–Away Until The Horror Began!

A weekend retreat at a remote cabin in the woods for a group of childhood pals turns into a terrifying fight for survival, as a former friend whose family was killed years earlier comes along looking for revenge.

Date of release
1992-01-29
TMDB
2.9 / 10 (32)
Runtime
1h 11m
Genres
Horror, Comedy
Director
Michael Mfume

Casting

Interesting facts

Ax 'Em is a 1992 American slasher film directed by and starring Michael Mfume, son of United States Representative Kweisi Mfume. The film follows a group of friends on a weekend retreat at a remote cabin in the woods who become the targets of a crazed killer.

Production

Michael Mfume wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the film with no experience, contacts or money for production. Eventually Mfume managed to accrue $400,000 from a group of investors while also accepting help from friends and family such as Mfume's mother providing craft services and his father also donating some money.

When you think of horror films in the '90s, you going to think of Michael Mfume.

After finding no distributors and still using its original title of The Weekend it Lives, the film had a very short theatrical run in Baltimore, Maryland in 1992, before falling into complete obscurity.

11 years later in 2003, York Entertainment purchased the home video rights for The Weekend It Lives. Wanting to market it as a straight horror film, a large re-edit took place with scenes that are now incomplete, out of order, or missing entirely leaving much of the film incoherent. Furthermore, the film was renamed Ax 'Em. The original film had a comedic-horror parody tone rather than straight horror, which can still be seen in the re-edit.

It is unknown if any prints of the original version still exist.

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