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Axe is a 1974 American independent horror filmwritten and directed by Frederick R. Friedel and starring Leslie Lee. Its plot follows a trio of criminals who lodge at a rural farmhouse where a teenage girl resides with her disabled grandfather. After one of the men attempts to rape her, she enacts revenge.

Axe

Theatrical release poster

Directed byFrederick R. FriedelWritten byFrederick R. FriedelProduced byJ.G. Patterson Jr.Starring

• Leslie Lee

• Hart Smith

• Carol Miller

CinematographyAustin McKinneyEdited by

• Frederick R. Friedel

• J.G. Patterson Jr.

Music by

• George Newman Shaw

• John Willhelm

Production
companies

• Frederick Productions

• Empire Studios

Distributed byBoxoffice International Pictures (BIP)

Release dates

• December 9, 1974(Greenville, South Carolina)[1]

Running time

67 minutes[2]CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$25,000

Originally titled Lisa, Lisa, the film is one of the famous "video nasties" that was banned in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.

Writer-director Frederick R. Friedel had aspired to make a feature film by age 25, an aspiration fueled by Orson Welles's having directed Citizen Kane (1941) at that age.[3] "I had no pretensions that I was directing Citizen Kane," Friedel recalled, but he had long wanted to make a film, and had been living in Los Angeles trying to break into the film business.[3] Friedel pitched his idea for a horror film to producer J.G. Patterson; at the time, Friedel was entirely inexperienced, having never been on a film set, never cast a film, nor worked in a film production.[4] He credited Paterson as "setting everything in motion" in terms of getting the production started.

Axe was shot over a period of nine days[6] in the winter of 1974.[7] It was shot on 35 mm film stock,[8] largely consisting of short-end film that had been returned to the Kodak distributor, which was cheaper than new rolls of film.[9]

Principal photography took place on location in a farmhouse outside Charlotte, North Carolina[10]on a budget of US$25,000.[3] The production paid a total of $25 to shoot in the house for around three days