An “intrepid reporter” sent me this hot-of-the-press newsflash info: A brand new film, titled The Curse of Lizzie Borden is due for release August 29, 2006. The 82 minute horror film is being released as a “Director’s Cut.” The Internet Movie Database has no listing of this film, so it looks like one of those movies that went straight to DVD and missed a theatre release. The distribution company is selling the DVD $14.99, but Amazon.com has it available for preorder at $10.99. Ooof! Amazon says the runtime is 121 minutes and is spelling it Lizzy Borden. Tsk tsk.
The set up has to do with a Lizzie Borden museum in Caifornia — I wonder if the Fall River Historical Society knows they have competition?
Says the website for the distributor, Razor Digital Entertainment:
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. Nestled within a quiet California town, a museum dedicated to the legend of Lizzie Borden has been opened. Cassy, a beautiful college student is drawn to the museum, taking a summer job as a tour guide. Cassy is quickly propelled into the mystery of the Folklore surrounding the legend of Lizzie Borden. It begins to consume her every waking moment. She begins dressing, acting and talking as if she were Lizzie Borden. And there are the dreams. Dreams of blood and death! One by one her friends are found murdered and her boyfriend, Andrew begins to fear the worst. Cassy may be next! Is some madman killing off all off their friends, or has the ghost of Lizzie Borden come back for a bloody rampage? Will Cassy and Andrew be able to stop the killer, or will they fall victim to the same fate that Lizzie’s parents did so many years ago? Until the final bloody axe falls, no one is safe from the CURSE OF LIZZIE BORDEN.
