Deaf-mute blondie(Akin)lives a poor but idyllic life with her old father working as florists. One day five escaped convicts visits their house. They kill the old man, rapes the girl and steal all their money. These convicts looks and act like real sleaze bags, Rifki from "midnight express" seams like a choirboy in comparision. Because of the very cruel rape the girl gets a shock which leads to that her speech comes back. She swears to get here revenge, so she educate herself to be a cop and Karate-expert (this goes really quick and by the time she is finished the crooks are still unleashed)... This movie is rather fun and entertaining. But it ain´t no real masterpiece in it´s genre, I would only recommend this film too people who likes odd movies. There are many logical mistakes in the plot and some actors are real terrible. But I like the mood of this kind of movies it´s fun to see, the look of the diabolic crooks will give you nightmares hehe.
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They call it a movie. No way!!!
erdalfila17 August 2022
I am really sad. If you want to watch a revenge story for a laugh, you can watch this. The Girl with speech impediment is recovering her voice without surgery. Oh my god, "shock" what you are capable of. Due to her greed for revenge, she becomes a sniper within a few days. She goes to the end and learns karate and immediately puts on a black belt. Then she suddenly enters the police school and becomes a cop-detective. Incredibly bad scenes, incredibly bad acting... This movie should be shown as an example of absurd cinema in universities...
A death scene in the movie was voted as the worst death scene in the world. I have no words for that, but the whole movie is nothing but Kill Bill. Tarantino should explain this...
A death scene in the movie was voted as the worst death scene in the world. I have no words for that, but the whole movie is nothing but Kill Bill. Tarantino should explain this...
Karate Girl
BandSAboutMovies15 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Zeynep (Filiz Akin, who starred in 116 movies in just over thirteen years and even survived being stabbed in the leg by an obsessed fan - she even went on stage to perform that same night!) is a mute girl content to be a florist with her father. They've been saving money for an operation that will allow her to speak, but one night five men break in, steal the money and kill her father. She refuses to testify against them because she wants them to all get away with it so she can hunt them down herself.
What really makes her story kind of Ben Parker tragic is that she falls for a man named Murat who teaches her how to shoot a gun and to defend herself with karate. He never tells her that he's a policeman, despite being set up by his superiors to get her to testify. In what is either committing way too much to being undercover or just really taking advantage of his job, they get married. The five men? They show up and kill him.
Oh man, Turkish cinema, I love you so.
The bad guys in this film are so evil that one of them steals a baby and threatens to break its neck if anyone gets in his way. You will not feel badly at all, even if you're the most liberal of left-leaning people, when they all get their karate chopped and bullet blazed comeuppance.
The really strange thing is that after the five men attacked Karate Girl, she could speak again, which really seems like a backward way of retelling They Call Her One-Eye. This one also doesn't have the heroine getting assaulted or porn inserts, but it does have the kind of extended fight scenes that you come to these movies for.
What really makes her story kind of Ben Parker tragic is that she falls for a man named Murat who teaches her how to shoot a gun and to defend herself with karate. He never tells her that he's a policeman, despite being set up by his superiors to get her to testify. In what is either committing way too much to being undercover or just really taking advantage of his job, they get married. The five men? They show up and kill him.
Oh man, Turkish cinema, I love you so.
The bad guys in this film are so evil that one of them steals a baby and threatens to break its neck if anyone gets in his way. You will not feel badly at all, even if you're the most liberal of left-leaning people, when they all get their karate chopped and bullet blazed comeuppance.
The really strange thing is that after the five men attacked Karate Girl, she could speak again, which really seems like a backward way of retelling They Call Her One-Eye. This one also doesn't have the heroine getting assaulted or porn inserts, but it does have the kind of extended fight scenes that you come to these movies for.
A classic turkey
sigurdleithe23 September 2021
Back in the mid-80s, this movie was renowned among my buddies as the worst ever made. In the big world of bootleg VHS from foreign lands, that's saying something. Bad acting, directing, stunts, scripting, SFX, editing ... simply mind-blowing. We couldn't believe our eyes. It was like a bad trip; awful but captivating. So of course it did the rounds, and I must have seen it five or six times, to howls of incredulous laughter. I was stunned to find out had its own entry on IMDB - I believed it lost and mercifully forgotten. But I would definitely give it a rewatch.
A golden girl provides the kiss of death
JohnSeal29 December 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This thoroughly enjoyable slice of Turkish hokum is only available in the grey market via copies of a Greek videotape of a French print dubbed into English (and, of course, featuring Greek subtitles). Blonde (hence golden) Filiz Akin plays the mute daughter of a man killed by half a dozen rampaging ex-cons; the shock of his death loosens her tongue and she vows revenge. The intercession of a handsome loner (future Turkish MP Ediz Hun) provides her the necessary encouragement to go after the baddies, and crash courses in sharp shooting and karate provide her the needed skills. Broadly acted by all concerned, chock full of action, and featuring a terrific score, Golden Girl would have been a great addition to the Onar Films DVD library if not for the sad demise of owner Bill Barounis. Lots of fun if you can find it.
Come for the death scene, stay for the cheese.
Java_Joe14 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is one of the earlier ventures into the whole "rape revenge" kind of movie like "I Spit on Your Grave". It's a Turkish movie that thankfully isn't a remake of another more popular movie but you shouldn't get your hopes up. It's as inept as just about any Turkish knock off movie you've ever seen.
What sets this one above all the others is the protracted death scene of one of the baddies. He gets shot several times by the titular Karate Girl and literally has the most over the top death scene ever put to film. It puts Paul Reuben's death scene in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to shame. It just goes on and on in slow motion. It's really something to be seen.
But beyond that the story itself is pretty thin. The Karate Girl is s deaf-mute who sells flowers. She needs a lot of money to get an operation to restore her voice. But one day five escaped convicts break into the house she shares with her father. They kill him, rape her, steal all their money and leave her for dead. But on the plus side the shock of this restored her voice. Now she swears vengeance on these men. And learns the most deadly of all the martial arts: Karate.
Of at least I think it's supposed to be karate. I can't really tell because instead of the punches she has a tendency to give "karate chops" and really badly telegraphed moves. I don't think they were going for realism here as the fight scenes came off like the ones in Dolemite where an unathletic man somehow beats up people with unconvincing moves. That's the fight scenes in this one. Except for the guy she shoots. That one was at least funny.
So yeah, it's not a great movie. It's full of cheesy characters and situations and really don't try to take it seriously.
What sets this one above all the others is the protracted death scene of one of the baddies. He gets shot several times by the titular Karate Girl and literally has the most over the top death scene ever put to film. It puts Paul Reuben's death scene in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to shame. It just goes on and on in slow motion. It's really something to be seen.
But beyond that the story itself is pretty thin. The Karate Girl is s deaf-mute who sells flowers. She needs a lot of money to get an operation to restore her voice. But one day five escaped convicts break into the house she shares with her father. They kill him, rape her, steal all their money and leave her for dead. But on the plus side the shock of this restored her voice. Now she swears vengeance on these men. And learns the most deadly of all the martial arts: Karate.
Of at least I think it's supposed to be karate. I can't really tell because instead of the punches she has a tendency to give "karate chops" and really badly telegraphed moves. I don't think they were going for realism here as the fight scenes came off like the ones in Dolemite where an unathletic man somehow beats up people with unconvincing moves. That's the fight scenes in this one. Except for the guy she shoots. That one was at least funny.
So yeah, it's not a great movie. It's full of cheesy characters and situations and really don't try to take it seriously.
you probably haven't seen this mishmash of languages
lee_eisenberg21 November 2015
We fans of cult cinema know that Turkey made a number of action flicks in the 1970s. Several of these were ripoffs of movies from the US - there was a Turkish "Exorcist" and a Turkish "Young Frankenstein" - but they made some original movies. A really crazy one was "Karateci Kız", about a woman who seeks revenge on her father's killers. The copy that I saw made it even zanier: the opening credits were in French, the movie was dubbed in English, and had Danish subtitles (and the woman looked Danish!).
There's not much in the way of plot, but the truth is that these sorts of movies make life worth living. It surprises me that Quentin Tarantino hasn't made a tribute to Turkish action flicks. If he ever does, he'll probably have to cast Filiz Akın and Cüneyt Arkın (with Samuel L. Jackson around to say the word that rhymes with brother-sucker).
Anyway, this is a fun movie. You're sure to love it.
There's not much in the way of plot, but the truth is that these sorts of movies make life worth living. It surprises me that Quentin Tarantino hasn't made a tribute to Turkish action flicks. If he ever does, he'll probably have to cast Filiz Akın and Cüneyt Arkın (with Samuel L. Jackson around to say the word that rhymes with brother-sucker).
Anyway, this is a fun movie. You're sure to love it.
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