Lizzie Borden Took an Ax is a 2014 American television
biopic about
Lizzie Borden, a young American woman tried and acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother in
Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892. It premiered on
Lifetime on January 25, 2014. Lead actress
Christina Ricci has described the series and its follow-up as being "self-aware, campy, and tongue-in-cheek".