This new Lifetime telemovie is so bad, it’s not even a hot mess – it’s a warm one. But it’s worth a peek, in a voyeuristic or masochistic way, because almost everything about it is so astoundingly wrong. Excluded from this harsh verdict is Christina Ricci, whose portrayal of the titular ax murderer is the one solid element in the entire project. What, otherwise, is so bad? The absurdly anachronistic and inappropriate musical score. The variously visited and revisited murder scenes, with their rapid cuts (figuratively and literally) and a blood fetish only Dexter could love. And, most of all, the silly, obvious and convoluted script by Stephen Kay, whose last writing credit, that horrible 1999 movie remake of The Mod Squad, was 15 years ago. Sorry if this mini-review of Lizzie Borden Took an Ax seems like a hatchet job – but if ever such a treatment was appropriate, this would seem to be the case.