'Ax 'Em' is so bad it's surreal

Ax 'Em (1992)
Director: Michael Mfume
Rating: 0.5 of 5 stars

If you haven't seen Ax 'Em, you are unqualified to call a movie the worst ever made.  It debuted at an NAACP office, then faded into obscurity until it was finally released on video in 2002.

The sound recording is so execrable that it interferes with the viewer's ability to comprehend the plot.  From what we can make of it, there's a crucially misspelled opening crawl that tells of a man whose family was murdered in the woods in 1992.  In 2003(?) he seeks revenge.

From there, four students at a historically black college exhibit racially stereotypical behavior, then decide to spend the weekend in the woods.  Once there, they feast so much it's a wonder they're not in the then-21.5% obese (or 30% in '03) of America.  Later on, the film's only white players come in and it goes downhill from there.

The cinematography is not up to scratch, and every scene ends with a fade to black.

The acting makes that of a typical silent movie look positively Shakespearean.

The movie's soundtrack will only appeal to the biggest diehards on the NWA fringe.

Manos: The Hands of Fate may just about have met a contender.