Thriller: A Cruel Picture

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there's not much to say about this movie, i've seen bad movies, really bad movies, movies that are so bad that makes me laugh, Plan 9 from outer space, the night of the ghouls, movies that are so bad that pisses me off, and then this crap. i think this is the WORST movie i've ever seen in my whole life, i wish there was a way to remove the awful memory that comes to my mind every time somebody talks about a bad movie, saying "hey have you seen this (random film) movie?", is really bad, then i think "you lucky bastard, you know nothing about bad movies". there are parts that makes this abomination less... unwatchable, but i don't want to spoil, oooh no, because you can not have just a bite of this excrement cake, you gotta swallow it all. as a personal recommendation, do NOT watch this movie (this thing that barely qualifies as a movie). but if you want to waste your time, grab a couple of beers... or maybe a 6 pack, call a friend that is as mentally screwed up as you are (because if you actually WANT to watch this, then there's no other explanation besides being mentally screwed up) and give yourself a bitter rotten-excrement feast watching this movie.

I don't think it is necessary for us to see an anal * for us to comprehend the abuse she suffers. In fact, the focus on the genitals is more likely to excite the viewer than align him/her with the suffering. The * in this film is the only shocking aspect and probably the only reason the film has any notoriety. If you were a mainstream viewer, it may be shocking, but if you have ever seen a * film (if you haven't go watch one now for educations sake), then you will see immediately how unnecessary those scenes are. If I wanted to see * I would have gone to a * site instead of watching the movie. It is so pathetic that the producer had to resort to this to get ratings. Absolutely pathetic. Every action scene is filmed in mind-numbingly slow slow-motion. Was the effects board stuck on this setting or something? The effects are really bad. I mean, really really bad. The blood looks like paint, the wounds look like someone spilled their spaghetti on their shirt. I think small children could come up with more realistic effects. Everything about this movie is stupid. Honestly, don't waste your time watching it. I did, and I regret it. I'm not even entertained by how crap it was.

Girls are kidnapped by a sadistic pimp,turned into heroin addicts and dumped into a brothel,there to suffer hideous mistreatment in the hands of sweating,overweight customers.A mute girl Madeleine(Christina Lindberg),escapes and finally exterminates her tormentors with a sawed-off shotgun."Thriller:A Cruel Picture" is a notorious Swedish exploitation film which has a strange,almost dreamy feeling.The killings are long and bloody,so I was enthralled.The use of extreme slow motion during death scenes is certainly impressive.Christina Lindberg is simply excellent as a mute girl who becomes a killing machine.The most controversial aspect about "Thriller:A Cruel Picture",aside from the bloody violence,is the presence of several ugly hard-core sex scenes that show the girl's prostitution work in graphic detail.So if you are a fan of grindhouse exploitation stuff give this film a look.Check out also "Breaking Point" by Bo Arne Vibenius which is even more pornographic and demented.7 out of 10.

As an avid lover of 70s Exploitation cinema I was quite excited to finally see "Thriller - en grym film" (aka. "Thriller: A Cruel Picture"/"They Call Her One-Eye") of 1974, as it is a film that enjoys a certain cult-status among many exploitation lovers. Not in my book, however, as "Thriller" turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments of recent months. I am an enthusiastic fan of ultra-violent and sleazy exploitation, so I'm not criticizing the film for being 'sick' of anything. On the contrary. the film isn't nearly as shocking or disturbing as it's hyped to be, but what really makes it disappointing is the fact that it lacks the slightest logic. Frigga (Christina Lindberg) is a young girl living on a farm with her parents. After she was raped by an old man as a little girl, Frigga has ceased to talk and become a mute. In spite of the traumatic events in her childhood, she blindly trusts a sleazy guy named Tony, who offers to give her a ride into town, and henceforth forces her into prostitution. Tony writes letters to Friggas parents in her name, explaining that she doesn't love them any more. And her parents immediately believe the lies, and subsequently kill themselves - now that makes a lot of sense. But that's not all: Tony makes Frigga a heroin addict (in this film, heroin addicts die when they don't get a shot), he forces her into prostitution and even stabs one of her eyes out when she refuses to have sex with a customer. Yet, he never rapes her himself, he gives her a percentage of the money she earns him, and he even gives her a day off a week, on which she can do what she wants - and the day off as well as the money give her the opportunity to do karate- and shooting classes in order to plan her revenge... I admit that the film has some strong points, but the storyline is about as illogical as it gets. Christina Lindberg became a minor sex-star in Exploitation cinema, but I'm not one of her fans. While some people find her hot, I think she just looks like a 15-year-old girl (which is too young for my tastes at least). This makes her quite predestined for her role here, however, as what makes this film interesting is Frigga's conversion from an innocent child-like young woman into a merciless, blood-thirsty avenger. Also, the idea with the eye-patch was pretty cool. So the film has its qualities, but it has at least as many faults. The supposed shock moments are in no way spectacular, and the (extremely) slow motion in any action sequence is more than tiresome. The (crappy) hardcore * sequences, which were obviously done with other people, seem superfluous and terribly out of place. I have no problem whatsoever with * sequences in non-* films, and I do not find such sequences offensive or anything, but they simply don't fit in here, and they furthermore give the impression that director Bo Arne Vibenius saw no difference in making exploitation cinema or plain *. The 70s spawned quite a number of rape and revenge flicks, and while this is one of the most overrated ones it is also one of the dullest. The film has many similarities to Meir Zarchi's "I Spit On Your Grave" (aka. "Day Of The Woman", 1978), which is often bashed, but a deeply disturbing and great film that is a lot more recommendable than this one. It is also sometimes compared to Wes Craven'S 1972 revenge classic "The Last House On The Left", but these comparisons are not really justified, since it's the parents, not the victims, who take revenge there. Overall, "Thiller" has its qualities, and it may be worth checking out for my fellow exploitation fans, but I advise to keep your expectations low, since the chances for being disappointed are high. I sure was.

Complete with gratuitous hardcore insert shots and cadaver eyeball mutilation, 'Thriller–A Cruel Picture' certainly earns its reputation as a true exploitation classic. Unfortunately, a drawn out final third, featuring some clumsy action scenes and the occasional unintentionally funny moment, ultimately drains the movie of some of its power. Beautiful Swedish star Christina Lindberg plays Madeleine, a young mute woman who is kidnapped, hooked on heroin, and then forced to work as a prostitute. After clawing her first customer in the face, she is punished by Tony, her sadistic captor, who, in a particularly nasty scene, uses a scalpel to blind her in one eye (this realistic moment was reputedly achieved with the use of an actual dead body!). After her injury has healed, Madeleine returns to work, with an eye-patch to hide her injury, and reluctantly complies with Tony's demands, sexually satisfying a variety of sleazy clients (bonus sleaze points are awarded here for inter-cutting graphic penetration shots with those of Ms. Lindberg, to make it appear as though she took part in the adult action). As a reward for her good behaviour, Madeleine is given two wraps of heroin a day, a percentage of her takings, and Monday's off (a pension plan is not offered!). However, after the suspicious disappearance of her friend, fellow 'hooker' Sally (who vanishes, leaving behind a blood-soaked bed), the one-eyed, smack-addicted beauty decides to get even with Tony, her abusers, and anyone else who has given her grief. She spends her free days learning self-defence, extreme driving, and marksmanship, and, once she is proficient at all three, embarks on her mission to exact bloody revenge. Everything that leads up to Madeleine eventually kicking ass is extremely well done and delightfully sordid, just as an exploitation film should be. The pace is leisurely at the beginning, but never bores, with the sex, drugs and violence all explicitly depicted. Plus, the delightful Lindberg spends a lot of her time naked. Where Thriller does suffer is in its latter scenes, where a shotgun toting, leather-coat and eye-patch wearing Madeleine blasts her victims to kingdom come. Director Bo Arne Vibenius opts to film most of the shootings in such excruciatingly drawn-out slow motion that it's possible to pop out to the kitchen, fix a sarnie, make a pot of tea, and still get back to your seat before the body hits the floor. Imagine the gun-fights of Peckinpah or Woo at a quarter of the speed, but nowhere near as stylish, and you'll have an idea of what I mean. A final act of revenge is set in a suitably bleak environment and ends the film as one would expect—with 'one-eye' settling the score with Tony, in a slow and painful manner. Madeleine is seen driving towards the horizon as the credits roll.

Exploitation cinema in all its glory, or not, depending on your own personal peccadilloes! Directed, written and produced by Bo Arne Vibenius, Thriller - en grym film (AKA: They Call Her One Eye) is an infamous picture for a number of reasons, reasons that would take a whole page to write about. So use your mouse and google it because this review isn't interested in dabbling in such fare. Plot sees a young Madeline raped by a paedophile and rendered mute by the experience. Into early adulthood and Madeline (played superbly by soft core * starlet Christinia Lindberg) unwisely takes up the offer of a lift from the odious Tony (Heinz Hopf). Pretty soon she's addicted to heroin and working as a prostitute. However, Madeline is biding her time, for she has plans, plans that spell doom for all her abusers. Does this film have artistic merit? Absolutely! In fact if you take out the inserted pornographic close-ups, which are pointless since we already know what Madeline is going through (a supposed marketing tool of the era apparently...) then this is a kick-ass film. It's a two parter, where the first half shows all of Madeline's misery, with sexual disturbance and body horror, then we switch to Madeline's fight back, where we get one of the coolest anti-heroines of 70s exploitation. She's sporting an eye patch, a glorious black trench coat, and weapons, oh yes! There are weapons, hands, guns and cars, oh my! It's here where Vibenius asks the question about justifiable revenge, whilst the super slow-mo approach to the violence will either be viewed as indulgent or classy (I'm with the latter camp). It is what it is, grungy and grimy, operating in a specialist niche of cinema, but worthy in that it didn't conform, and it has proved influential. It's just not a date movie or something to watch with you mom! Right, I'm off for a bath. 7/10

Although I can't fully motivate my reasons why, I always had a bad feeling about this supposed & acclaimed "grittiest revenge-movie feature of the 70's". I'm a huge fan of this sleazy and brutal 70's exploitation trend (which includes highlights such as "Last House on the Left", "Fight for your Life", "Night Train Murders", "I Spit on your Grave" and "House on the Edge of the Park"), but I always had a bad omen that the Swedish "Thriller – A Cruel Picture" would leave me absolutely stone cold. And indeed, it did. The film is nowhere near as disturbing and shocking as it should be, and I can state a number of reasons for that. First and foremost, the screenplay is far too implausible and most of the characters are unidentifiable. Christina Lindberg is still fairly convincing as the young victim Madeleine (though the fact she's a mute doesn't exactly make her more amiable) but particularly the pimp-character Tony and the abrupt fate that overcomes Madeleine's parents is completely unrealistic. So this guy Tony abducts a beautiful young girl, pumps her veins full of expensive heroin, sends a vicious letter to her parents claiming she left deliberately, forces her to work as a prostitute and even stabs one of her eyes out … yet we are supposed to believe that he doesn't sexually abuse her himself one single time? Quite the contrary, he even allows her to take one day off per week. What, do Swedish prostitutes have a Union that comes up for their rights, or something? Tony shouldn't be so surprised that cute little Madeleine eventually goes on a vengeance spree, because her favorable working schedule provided her with plenty of free time to attend martial arts fighting classes, shooting techniques and even defensive driving courses. The film, or at least the fully restored uncut version, also contains quite a lot of hardcore * (though obviously with different actors) that is entirely pointless and even misplaced & distasteful. To me it even felt like a lack of respect for the fans of this type of cinema as well as for the real performers. Then finally, and this certainly disappointed me the most, the actual amount of violence in "Thriller – A Cruel Picture" is astonishingly low and the depiction of it is wandering on the verge of ridiculousness. The killings are shown in a bizarre slow-motioned fashion (and I do mean SLOOOOOW Motion) and the long car chase is just retarded. I always assumed Sweden constructed the strongest & most reliable cars, yet here they all seem to explode almost spontaneously. In my humble (and admittedly amateurish) opinion, "Thriller" is a very overrated picture instead of a cruel one. Even the most notorious moments, like for example the eye stabbing, are weak and thoroughly unimpressive. Christina Lindberg is an enchanting beauty and the screenplay has some occasional flashes of suspense, but other than these elements there's very little to praise.