'Bloody Axe Wound' Review: Shudder Horror Comedy Is Messy, Bloody Fun

Making a name for himself by bashing people's faces with a bat wrapped in barbed wire on the screen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan steps back onto this bloody path. But in this horror comedy, he spends more time behind the camera. Between working on The Walking Dead franchise as the antagonist-turned-anti-hero Negan, Morgan brought his violent flair to a Dark Sky Films production, Bloody Axe Wound. Though he makes a brief cameo at the film's start, he is more credited as a producer, working with director and writer Matthew John Lawrence to bring this slasher to life. Blending homages to the genre together with a twisted coming-of-age arc, Bloody Axe Wound plays out on its own unique beat that reaches for schlocky brilliance but doesn't quite muster it.