“So I Married an Axe Murderer” — The case of the missing axe!
Some Redditors on a nostalgia based thread were reminiscing about Mike Myers’ 1993 romantic black comedy “So I Married an Axe Murderer” when a few started questioning why the cover had been edited:
“So I’ve never seen this movie, but I guarantee she was holding an axe behind her back originally and they edited it out later.”
“I don’t understand why they’d remove it.”
“What was the point of the edited version?”
As it turns out, this axeless version has “always been” the official cover; from the original theatrical posters to the commercial VHS and DVD releases!
According the the Sony Wiki page: A DVD of the film was first released in June 1999. The artwork for the DVD featured an image different than the original movie poster, which had Harriet holding an axe behind her back.
So someone at Sony remembers that hidden axe! Looking at the image as a whole, it completes the shot composition of the poster, Mike Myers has shown up with flowers for a Rom-Com, meanwhile the gag is Harriet has other ideas!
This poster used to be up at my video store, and I vividly recall the axe tucked behind her back. What’s interesting, and a very weird wrinkle to this story, is that the version many recall has turned up on the cover of the overseas Blu Ray edition from Australia! 20 years later, and somehow it makes a return?
Do you remember the axe behind Harriet’s back?
