Pickaxe

Pickaxe

An Urban Legend Reborn

2014 · 87 min · ★ 4.3 · Horror

In the summer of 1982, a group of campers was horribly slaughtered at Camp Arapaho in the sleepy little town of Woodland Hills. The 10 gruesome murders were blamed on Alex Black, a mysterious man believed to have been the son of Satan himself, whom the townspeople had hunted down and lynched nearly 20 years prior. A young woman named Adrienne was able to defeat Alex and put a stop to the killing spree.

Directed by Jeremy Sumrall · Written by Jeremy Sumrall

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