Lizzie Borden took an ax, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one.

Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Lizzie Borden, a 19th-century Massachusetts woman who is put on trial for the brutal slaughter of her father and stepmother in their family home. She is accused of hacking up her parents with an axe. 

Based on fact and considered shocking at the time for a TV-movie. This movie is chilling as it recreates the murders and the actual Borden house's floorplans to document and terrify the audience with a pseudo-documentary feel and psychological touch of suspense. The other roles were filled with lookalike actors and forms the atmosphere that you are really there in Fall River as the murders and trial occur. This movie is a bit more than a cult classic, it's a TV-movie that should have been released theatrically. 

In color, 1975, Rated PG, 1 hour 36 minutes, Beautiful print and sound, Region 0