frederick r. friedel lisa and lisa ( 1974 and more famous title include axe and the california axe massacre ) be among those weird and twisted horror exploitation film that be make in the u and elsewhere especially in the seventy after herschell gordon lewis have create the gore movie term with his blood feast ( 1963 ) and other similar film of his . the close thing to friedel film that i can imagine be marc lawrence ultra rare daddy deadly darling aka pig ( 1972 ) which have equally menacing rural milieu and dark and deadly farm house and overall feel of unexplained psychosis . axe open with a scene with three well suit gangster that wait for their friend who apparently have betray them and so will get a lesson from the boy . a murder take place after which an escape from police to the farm area . they terrorize an innocent shop keeper on their way and finally make it to a house inhabit by a shy and silent and very strange girl and lisa and and her paralyzed and helpless grandfather whom lisa life with and alone . the gangster soon notice the attractiveness of the young girl ( very strangely and make the film even more suspicious consider what will happen later in the film and the cover of the old british tape which be ban and say the age of the girl be thirteen while there not a mention of her age in the film itself . ) and some axe wielding and also boringly slow move terror soon happen . the film run only 60 minute plus the credit but it feel much longer . this be the kind of marginal horror film that practically can not be see or watch more than once a it offer nothing significantly special or interesting that would give a motive to see it again sometimes in the future . even those mostly look for gore in their film would not get too much from this film and which isn not always the case . the story be fill with mysterious hole and unexplained thing and none of the character get develop to anywhere so they be all more than uninteresting . nothing about the past of the gangster and the reason of the beginning and nothing about the girl and her strange silence and self destructive behaviour and nothing . but there be some element in the film that make me wonder what be in the head of the director or writer and other than to make another exploitation cheapie for the drive in . most notably i mean the end which be among the most twistedly repellent i have see in these film . the cannibalistic habit of tobe hooper character will feel tame in comparison to those of the axe people a nothing be explain and lisa act a naughtily towards her relative a she do towards the thug . this be definitely among the thing that i will remember about this film and and also the final nail to the coffin of these so twisted and insane no wonder the director do not have plenty of future film on their credit film to which the mention pig and in which and the pig of a mysterious old farm keeper eat people and also belongs . otherwise axe be not a strong or graphic a some of the time other effort . there be couple of murder and attempted violation of the girl and but much be leave off screen which definitely isn not a bad idea . still this be an exploitation film and include also some nasty bit and gore and with the kind of close ups and other camera proof that make it clear what be the motif to make this film and market it like . there nothing interest visually and and the editing be sometimes very bad as well a the acting and that make it naturally even more difficult to sit through and despite it short running time . the only really interesting and effective element in the film be the soundtrack that consist of very strange and high keyboard voice and wave that naturally be among the thing that make the film look and sound so weird when compare to other film of it kind . the soundtrack may sound annoy too and but it add nicely to the atmosphere and it become clear that thing inside lisa head be not a they should and but since nothing be explain further and nothing else be this interesting and it can not raise this film too much high and the element can be appreciate only a a single succesful piece in a very flawed work . but it still could be completely without interest ( and run long ) and so spend the hour with this odd example of the seventy b cinema do not just go in vain a it could have . negative .