Lisa, Lisa is an American

United States

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 exploitation

Exploitation

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 horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 film, it was written and directed by Frederick R. Friedel and stars Leslie Lee as Lisa of the title.

Synopsis

A group of three psychopaths 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 paralyzed grandfather. After suffering much humiliation at the hands of the gang, Lisa takes a ghastly, murderous revenge.

Cast

• Leslie Lee as Lisa
• Jack Cano as Steele
• Ray Green as Lomax
• Frederick R. Friedel as Billy
• Douglas Powers as Grandfather
• Frank Jones as Aubrey
• Carol Miller as Storewoman
• George J. Monaghan as Harold
• Hart Smith as Detective
• Scott Smith as Policeman
• Jeff MacKay as Radio and Television Shows (voice)
• David Hayman as Radio and Television Shows (voice)
• Don Cummins as Radio and Television Shows (voice)
• Jaqueline Pyle as Radio and Television Shows (voice)
• Lynne Bradley as Radio and Television Shows (voice)
• Richie Smith as Radio and Television Shows (voice)
• George Newman Shaw as Radio and Television Shows (voice)
• Ronald Watterson as Radio and Television Shows (voice)
• Beverly Watterson as Radio and Television Shows (voice)
• Graddie Lane as Radio and Television Shows (voice)
• Suzy Bertoni as Radio and Television Shows (voice)

Controversy

The film gained notoriety in 1984 when it was designated a video nasty

Video nasty

"Video nasty" was a colloquial term coined in the United Kingdom by 1982 which originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticized for their violent content by the press, commentators such as Mary Whitehouse and various religious organizations.While violence...

 in the UK and appeared on the director of public prosecution's list of banned films.. It remained unavailable until 2005.