Lifetime’s The Lizzie Borden Chronicles video trailer and first photos with Christina Ricci
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Lifetime’s The Lizzie Borden Chronicles video trailer and first photos with Christina Ricci

ByAsa Hawks

Lifetime’s original movie Lizzie Borden Took An Axe (starring Christina Ricci as the notorious maybe-axe-murderer) was a huge success for the network last January, premiering to well over 4.3 million viewers and taking home the honor of the most-tweeted program of the night across all of television. In April Ricci will reprise her role as…

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Did Lizzie Borden actually kill her parents or not?

ByAsa Hawks

Tonight is the world premiere of Lifetime’s much-anticipated movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax inspired by the world’s most infamous female ax murderer and starring Christina Ricci in the title role. Despite her infamy, however, Lizzie Borden was actually acquitted of the brutal slaying of her father and stepmother after her headline-grabbing trial in 1893. Even so, many still believe she did the dirty deed. Keep reading for info about the murders and the trial and decide for yourself if Lizzie deserves her infamously gothic nursery rhyme:

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

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VIDEO Lifetime’s Lizzie Borden Took An Ax trailer starring Christina Ricci

ByAsa Hawks

Watch the first preview trailer for the Lifetime Original Movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax starring Christina Ricci! The movie will premiere January 25, one week after the network’s other high-profile goth film venture, a take on V. C. Andrews’ hugely popular novel Flowers In the Attic starring Heather Graham, Ellen Burstyn and Mad Men‘s Kiernan Shipka.