Lisa, Lisa (1974) on Netflix
Three criminals on the run, Steele, Lomax and Billy, terrorize the people of a small community. They take lodging at an isolated farmhouse where Lisa lives with her paralyzed grandfather.
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Plot summary
After a debt collection in a hotel room ends in bloodshed, Steele, Lomax and Billy take to the road. Billy is uneasy about what the three of them have done, while the other two are indifferent. At a grocery store, Steele and Lomax torment the clerk. Looking for a place to stay, the men come to a remote farmhouse where Lisa lives alone with her paralyzed grandfather. She is evasive with them, but agrees to let them stay when they say Billy is unwell. When police searching for the men come to the door, Lomax and Steele hold a gun on Lisa, and she sends the officers away, telling them she has seen no strangers.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lisa, Lisa (1974)
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- Axe, originally titled Lisa, Lisa, was one of the famous "video nasties" that was banned in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.
- The production paid a total of $25 to shoot for around three days in a farmhouse outside Charlotte, North Carolina, where much of the decorations and dressings were already present; the film's overall budget was $25,000.
- Axe was shot over nine days in the winter of 1974 on 35 mm stock made up largely of short-end film that had been returned to the Kodak distributor, because it was cheaper than new rolls.
- Director Frederick R. Friedel cast himself as Billy, the guilt-ridden third member of the gang, mainly to save the production the cost of hiring another actor.
- Writer-director Frederick R. Friedel had never been on a film set, never cast a film and never worked in a film production when he pitched his horror film idea to producer J.G. Patterson.
- To give the film a longer running time, Friedel recalled, the production sought to extend individual scenes "by any means possible", including extended opening and closing credits; scenes in the car were dubbed because the crew had no means of capturing sound in a moving vehicle.
