Still Thinking About Lizzie Borden? Watch These 8 Movies and Shows on Tubi
From true-crime investigations to supernatural nightmares, the Borden story keeps finding another life in movies and shows streaming free on Tubi.
You probably know the rhyme. You may know the axe. The Fall River house might look familiar. Maybe you've already decided whether you think Lizzie Borden did it. The strange part is how easy it is to feel like you know this story before you've ever actually opened the case file.
Because somewhere between the 1892 murders and now, Lizzie became bigger than the courtroom she walked out of. History gave us a real woman who was tried and acquitted in the murders of her father and stepmother. Pop culture inherited everything that remained unresolved and spent generations building its own Lizzies on top of her. Depending on where you meet her, she can look like a suspect, victim, antihero, monster, ghost, or something far harder to categorize.
So we're doing exactly what this case has encouraged people to do for generations: looking again. Tubi has eight very different encounters with the Borden story waiting, and we're following the trail from what we know to what storytellers, horror filmmakers, and paranormal believers have imagined in the spaces around it. For more investigations where the actual case remains the focus, Tubi's True Crime collection has plenty more files waiting to be opened.
Bring your theories. The axe already has enough baggage.
Mysteries Decoded: “Lizzie Borden” (Season 1, Episode 1)
Before we start summoning anybody, perhaps we should review the evidence.
The Lizzie Borden episode of Mysteries Decoded sends private investigator Jennifer Marshall back into the infamous Fall River case alongside paranormal medium Stephanie Bingham. Rather than inventing a new Lizzie, the episode returns to the questions that have kept the murders alive in true-crime history: what happened inside the Borden house, what does the evidence actually tell us, and why has a definitive answer remained so difficult to pin down?
Starting here gives the rest of our watchlist important context. Lizzie was tried for the murders of her father, Andrew Borden, and stepmother, Abby Borden, but she was acquitted. The uncertainty left behind became fertile ground for more than a century of theories. Consider the case file reopened.
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Lizzie
Inside the Borden household, family tension is already simmering long before anyone picks up an axe.
Set in 1892, Lizzie imagines a relationship developing between Lizzie Borden, played by Chloë Sevigny, and the family's maid Bridget Sullivan, played by Kristen Stewart, as control, repression, and violence inside the home build toward the infamous murders. Rather than turning Lizzie into the larger-than-life figure pop culture eventually created, the movie keeps its attention close to the woman and the circumstances surrounding her.
It's still a dramatization rather than an answer to the historical mystery, but that's exactly what makes it useful here: once the surviving facts stop, another storyteller gets to decide what might fill the silence. Another Lizzie has officially entered the case file.
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The Lizzie Borden Chronicles
The jury said not guilty. Television said, “Okay, but hear us out.”
Christina Ricci takes over the axe-adjacent mythology in The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, a deliberately fictionalized continuation that imagines Lizzie's life after her acquittal becoming significantly more murderous than the historical record.
Ricci's Lizzie is clever, composed, and considerably more comfortable around violence than anyone hoping for historical restraint should expect. Clea DuVall plays her sister Emma, while Cole Hauser enters the story as investigator Charlie Siringo. Eight episodes give this version of Lizzie room to become less historical reenactment and more full-blown antihero. We have officially left the courthouse.
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The Inhabitant
What happens when the Borden name becomes scarier than the person carrying it?
The Inhabitant moves the obsession into contemporary psychological horror, where teenager Tara is presented as a fictional descendant of Lizzie Borden. Violent visions and intrusive thoughts have already made Tara afraid of herself when people around her start dying, giving her a deeply inconvenient question to answer: is family history merely making her paranoid, or should she actually be worried about what she's capable of?
Odessa A'zion keeps that uncertainty alive by making Tara feel frightened by her own mind without removing the possibility that everyone around her has good reason to be suspicious. We went deeper on exactly why the movie works in The Inhabitant makes the Lizzie Borden legend a family problem. History isn't repeating itself here. Horror is asking what it would feel like to grow up terrified that it could.
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The Lizzie Borden Game
Naturally, the next reasonable step for our watchlist is summoning her ghost.
A Friendsgiving getaway goes wildly off schedule in The Lizzie Borden Game when Emily and her friends encounter an eerie game connected to Borden. Emily is already dealing with the unexplained deaths of her parents; inviting one of America's most infamous alleged murderers into the supernatural equation does not improve the weekend.
The movie takes Lizzie out of true-crime territory entirely and turns her cultural reputation into a horror-movie boogeyman. Historical ambiguity has officially become paranormal mythology.
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Lizzie Borden: Legacy
A fictional Borden descendant decides her sorority slumber party could benefit from contacting her infamous ancestor in Lizzie Borden: Legacy. The group holds a séance. Lizzie's spirit is summoned. Things proceed with approximately the level of calm you would expect from inviting an axe-murder legend to girls' night.
Historical Lizzie has almost completely disappeared by this point in our watchlist. What's left is the iconography: the name, the axe, the rhyme, the reputation, and more than a century of cultural storytelling transforming an acquitted woman into a supernatural slasher. The séance portion of our investigation is now closed. Hopefully.
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The Road Trip: “She Took an Axe” (Season 1, Episode 3)
Fine. We're going to the house.
Paranormal investigators Richel Stratton and Brian Murray make the trip to Fall River in The Road Trip, where the episode “She Took an Axe” brings them inside the actual Lizzie Borden House to investigate reports of paranormal activity.
After watching fictional descendants and supernatural slashers borrow the Borden name, we're back where the real 1892 murders happened. Whether you believe the house is haunted or simply understand why more than a century of history would make walking through it after dark feel deeply weird, the fascination becomes much easier to understand once the address stops being abstract.
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My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera (Season 1, Episode 6)
More than a century after Lizzie's acquittal, two radio hosts featured in My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera believe they captured something generations of investigators, historians, writers, and amateur sleuths would've loved to obtain: Lizzie Borden speaking about the murders.
The episode presents their paranormal claim rather than historical proof, but that's almost beside the larger cultural point. We've reached the final evolution of the Lizzie Borden obsession. When court records, theories, dramatizations, fictional descendants, séances, and visits to the house still aren't enough, apparently the next step is asking the dead directly.
Over 130 years later, we're still trying to get an answer. Maybe that's why Lizzie Borden never really leaves the conversation. History gave us a verdict, but not a universally accepted explanation. Pop culture has spent every generation since trying to fill that silence with another theory, another Lizzie, ghost story, and swing at the mystery.
Case closed? Not even close.
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