If you enjoy fun horror and have an interest in true crime, Breaking Glass Pictures has just the horror movie for you. The Lizzie Borden Game will be available to watch On Demand in August, and it sounds like a bloody good time.
Described as “a genre-blending horror thriller”, The Lizzie Borden Game comes to us from cult filmmaker Calvin Morie McCarthy. McCarthy is also responsible for films such as Conjuring: The Beyond, Conjuring: The Cult, Beware the Boogeyman and An Amityville Poltergeist (one of the many Amityville-inspired films out there).
In The Lizzie Borden Game, a young woman named Emily has just lost her parents under mysterious circumstances when she is given an invitation to a Friendsgiving celebration at a gothic castle (I am not sure where the film is set, but gothic castles aren't just laying around out there in the US). Emily and her friends end up accidently opening a portal while playing something called The Lizzie Borden Game, and then they have to fight off the angry ghost of Lizzie herself.
Most of us are pretty familiar with the story of Lizzie Borden, even if it’s only because we know the catchy verse that begins “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks.” Those of us who follow true crime know more about the story, which took place in Fall River, Massachusetts, and have no doubt seen the gruesome black and white photographs of the dead bodies of Andrew and Abby Borden. The two were brutally killed with an axe on Thursday, August 4 of 1892, and Lizzie was the main suspect. She was later acquitted by a jury when the case went to trial, but questions have remained about her guilt or innocence.
The Lizzie Borden Game will be available on digital platforms August 1
The Lizzie Borden Game stars Jason Brooks (Friday the 13th: Vengeance), Jessica Noel Thompson (Some Assembly Required), Laura Wilson (Clown Motel: 3 Ways to Hell) and Chynna Rae Shurts (Beware the Boogeyman). The CEO of Breaking Glass Pictures, Rich Wolff, praised McCarthy’s vision, and proclaimed the film as “his most fun and ferocious project yet – creepy, fast-paced, and perfect for fans of horror that doesn’t take itself too seriously.”