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Leslie Lee, Jack Canon, Frederick R. Friedel, Frank Jones

Released originally under the title Lisa, Lisa, this seedy murder-fest was later re-titled during drive-in circulation then again for its video release in 1985 as The California Axe Massacre to capita... read more read more...lize on the hype of another new arrival to video, Tobe Hooper's cult classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The film itself (actually filmed in North Carolina, not California) has little in common with Hooper's hit; the bloody revenge scenario is more reminiscent of Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. It involves a gang of grimy fugitives who hole up in the rural abode of a pretty but unstable young woman (Leslie Lee) and proceed to abuse her and her grandfather. Of course, things get out of hand from there, and the hoods kill the old fogey, which brings gory retribution as the sweet young thing brandishes the title implement. Painfully cheap-looking, this tawdry exploiter is too slow-moving to sustain the interest of chop-em-up fans who might be lured by the title. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 7 min.

Directed by: Frederick R. Friedel

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DVD Release Date: April 5, 2005

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  • matertenebraum
    June 11, 2009
    matertenebraum
    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 morewatched 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...
  • patrickdol
    July 21, 2009
    patrickdol
    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.
  • KevinTheMovieManiac
    June 14, 2009
    KevinTheMovieManiac
    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...
  • theSwitchbladeSister
    August 20, 2008
    theSwitchbladeSister
    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.
  • wrinkleraisin
    September 20, 2007
    wrinkleraisin
    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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