It sounds like something out of a horror movie, but it was all too real when a woman was attacked with an axe Wednesday night.

The attack happened just after 9 p.m. in a home on Prospect Road in Peggys Cove.

RCMP Staff-Sgt. Scott Warnica told News 95.7, police responding to an assault call found a woman, 52, who had been attacked with an axe, suffering from serious, life-threatening injuries.

About an hour and a half later, officers arrested two underage girls in a car on Mumford Road, and they remain in custody. At last word, they were being interrogated by investigators.

Mounties said the victim and the two girls knew one another.

The victim was released from hospital Thursday morning. RCMP said her injuries weren’t as bad as first thought, but she is still healing with multiple injuries.

Search warrants were executed, but charges had yet to be laid.