'Lizzie Borden Took An Ax' Premieres Tonight on Lifetime (Preview)

Christina Ricci stars in Lifetime's Lizzie Borden Took An Ax.

The nursery rhyme "Lizzie Borden took an ax...and gave her mother forty whacks...when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one" has been folklore for generations. But, in fact, it was Lizzie Borden -- one of the most legendary figures in American history - who first whetted the public's voracious interest in scandalous crimes in the 1800s with her own gruesome story involving the brutal murder of her parents.

Starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee Christina Ricci (Monster), Golden Globe Nominee Billy Campbell (THE KILLING) and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Clea DuVall (Argo), the Lifetime Original Movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax premieres tonight (January 25, 2014) at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Christina Ricci Kills It in the Lifetime Original Movie 'Lizzie Borden Took An Ax,' Premiering January 25

The nursery rhyme "Lizzie Borden took an ax...and gave her mother forty whacks...when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one" has been folklore for generations. But, in fact, it was Lizzie Borden -- one of the most legendary figures in American history - who first whetted the public's voracious interest in scandalous crimes in the 1800s with her own gruesome story involving the brutal murder of her parents.

Starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee Christina Ricci (Monster), Golden Globe Nominee Billy Campbell (THE KILLING) and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Clea DuVall (Argo), the Lifetime Original Movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax premieres January 25, 2014, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

On a scorching, hot summer day in 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden (Ricci) returns home to the house she shares with her father Andrew, stepmother Abby and sister Emma (DuVall). But, unlike any normal day, Lizzie encounters the bloody scene of her parents violently murdered.