Leslie Lee, Jack Canon, Ray Green

A group of 3 pyschopaths on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her ...( read more  read more... )paralysed father. After being raped by 2 of the gangsters she retaliates using an axe and razorblades.

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R, 65 min.

Directed by: Frederick R. Friedel

Release Date: December 31, 1977

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DVD Release Date: April 5, 2005

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  • June 11, 2009
    Contains story + **spoilers**

    Lisa lives together with her paralyzed grandpa on a remoted farm in North Carolina. Some day three criminals on the run take them as their hostages. As one of the outlaws tries to rape Lisa, the young girls takes bitter revenge...

    This film can be ...( read more)watched as a mixture between "Last House on the Left" and "Desperate Hours". On principle, "Lisa, Lisa" is a movie that nobody needs: The gore keeps within limits and by a total running time of 70 minutes there´s not enough space to construct a far-reaching story or to develop the characters, although the whole plot would be much better if director and actor Frederick Friedel had done this! Probably one of those films to make a maximum profit with a minimum stake...

    Personally, however, I found "California Axe Massacre" (neither it happens in California, nor is there an axe massacre...) suspense-packed from beginning till the end, the atmosphere is sinister and the finale quite macabre. That makes "Lisa, Lisa" being an almost forgotten cult classic - short but effective! Like a dirty joke...
  • July 21, 2009
    I think this is borderline brilliant. Well maybe not, but it's a hell of a great exploitationy b-movie. And at an hour and change you won't need to spend much time on it, but it will be time well spent.
  • June 14, 2009
    HORRID SHIT! I hate this movie so much, the only reason I even gave it 2 stars was because I liked some the atmosphere and the house Lisa lived in was kind creepy.
    The movie runs about 70 mins,but it felt more like 120.The movie was so slow moving I almost fell asleep watching...( read more) it. Even how they talked was slow and boring. i dont think they could have talked more mono tone. There was no many unecessay scenes too. Like the scene where they shoot the tomatoes off the girl in the store!! What the fuck was the point of that scene?? It wasnt even funny,just utterly pointless...

    When they finnaly do get to the "good" scenes(they actually werent that good,average at best!) it was at the 40 min mark!40 minutes! Are you kidding me,when the movie is only 70 minutes long. This just shows you off idiotic the film makers where. This was such a forgettable film...
  • October 2, 2008
    even at under 70 minutes, this flick felt somewhat too long. A poor man's LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT with some decent atmosphere and a creepy ass soundtrack....which makes it sound better than it is. Honestly - the best thing about this movie is its title.
  • August 21, 2008
    Can't understand why it's not more popular
  • August 20, 2008
    The protagonist (if he can even be called as such) of this film looks like if Eric Idle and James Brolin had a baby and then he turned to crime.

    As for the movie itself, it's pretty bad. Not even endearingly so.
  • June 14, 2008
    wonderful low budget stuff.
  • September 20, 2007
    The tomato soup part is pretty gross. But over all i liked it.
  • September 20, 2007
    No gore here, a little slow, and it's a short movie, but it was good enough to earn a place in my horror movie collection.

    The scene where Lisa feeds her father the "tomato" soup is gross!

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