This film is a prime example of seeing a movie for the first time and liking it, then viewing it again years later and finding it completely ridiculous.
I wouldn't put such a strong label as "completely ridiculous" on this film, but it's fairly close descriptor. "Lisa" is the story of a teenager who, with her best friend, basically stalk men that they think are "cute": Keeping scrapbooks of their polaroid snapshots, etc. This tactic finally goes horribly wrong when Lisa inadvertently fixes her attention on a man who ends up being "The Candlelight Killer", a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.
As stated earlier, I had seen this movie about 12 years ago and thought it was fairly suspenseful. None of that suspense was apparent to me watching it this time, and unfortunately I can't blame it on knowing what was going to happen because I couldn't remember any of the scenes. The only vaguely interesting element to the film that made the film barely tolerable was the fact that the eventual "victim" was unknowingly stalking the killer - but I think I'm being generous in my assessment. This was basically a straight to video type film that could have been featured on the Lifetime network, and probably has been since it also features the horrible Cheryl Ladd. Unless you have a lot of patience to sit through a film with an unfulfilling ending, I would suggest bypassing this one.
--Shelly
I wouldn't put such a strong label as "completely ridiculous" on this film, but it's fairly close descriptor. "Lisa" is the story of a teenager who, with her best friend, basically stalk men that they think are "cute": Keeping scrapbooks of their polaroid snapshots, etc. This tactic finally goes horribly wrong when Lisa inadvertently fixes her attention on a man who ends up being "The Candlelight Killer", a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.
As stated earlier, I had seen this movie about 12 years ago and thought it was fairly suspenseful. None of that suspense was apparent to me watching it this time, and unfortunately I can't blame it on knowing what was going to happen because I couldn't remember any of the scenes. The only vaguely interesting element to the film that made the film barely tolerable was the fact that the eventual "victim" was unknowingly stalking the killer - but I think I'm being generous in my assessment. This was basically a straight to video type film that could have been featured on the Lifetime network, and probably has been since it also features the horrible Cheryl Ladd. Unless you have a lot of patience to sit through a film with an unfulfilling ending, I would suggest bypassing this one.
--Shelly