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Thriller: A Cruel Picture

Original title: Thriller - en grym film
  • 19731973
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  • 1h 44m
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Christina Lindberg in Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
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A young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.A young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.A young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
7.5K
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POPULARITY
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816
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    • Director
      • Bo Arne Vibenius
    • Writer
      • Bo Arne Vibenius(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Christina Lindberg
      • Heinz Hopf
      • Despina Tomazani
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    • Director
      • Bo Arne Vibenius
    • Writer
      • Bo Arne Vibenius(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Christina Lindberg
      • Heinz Hopf
      • Despina Tomazani
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    • 94User reviews
    • 117Critic reviews
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    Christina Lindberg
    Christina Lindberg
    • Madeleine…
    Heinz Hopf
    Heinz Hopf
    • Tony
    Despina Tomazani
    Despina Tomazani
    • The Lesbian Girl
    Per-Axel Arosenius
    • Madeline's Father
    • (as Per Axel Arosenius)
    Solveig Andersson
    Solveig Andersson
    • Sally
    Björn Kristiansson
    • The Addict
    Marie-Louise Mannervall
    • Woman in village
    Hildur Lindberg
    • Woman in village
    Stig Lokrantz
    Olle Nordlander
    Marshall McDough
    • Karate Teacher
    • (as Marshal Mc Donagh)
    Gunnar Palm
    Pamela Pethö-Galantai
    • Young Frigga
    Lennart Robertsson
    Hans-Eric Stenborg
    • Sex Buyer
    Stig Ström
    • Sex Buyer
    Lars Sääv
    Bruno Sörwing
    • Director
      • Bo Arne Vibenius
    • Writer
      • Bo Arne Vibenius(screenplay) (an original story)
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    • Trivia
      In a 2009 interview with Film Bizarro, a website dedicated to underground and independent films, Christina Lindberg confirmed that she did not appear in the hardcore sex scenes featured in the uncut version of the film. The actors were "Romeo and Juliet", a couple known for traveling around in their vehicle to perform live sex shows.
    • Goofs
      When the police car runs over a piece of grass between two roads, you can clearly see tire tracks from earlier takes.
    • Quotes

      Tony: I like women who don't talk too much... but you set a new record!

    • Alternate versions
      US version was heavily edited (ca. 20 min.) for a R rating. DVD release by Synapse is uncut.
    • Connections
      Featured in 42nd Street Forever! Volume 1: Horror on 42nd Street (2004)

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    Mesmerizing if not perfect
    After hearing all the hype about this film...the latest notorious Eurotrash cult film making the rounds...has to be seen to be believed...sex and violence, sex and violence, etc., I finally got hold of a copy of it and was almost afraid that with all the anticipation I'd just be disappointed. To add to that, the copy I got was of crappy quality as I discovered when I started watching it--the opening credits were so blurry I couldn't read them--and the whole affair started to look like nothing more than the chore necessary to get the idea of finally seeing this film out of my head.

    All this apprehension disappeared quickly as I got sucked into this simple yet very engaging story. We all know it's about a chick with one eye who picks up a shotgun and exacts revenge on her abusers, another entry into a sub-genre that needs no introduction, and that's what I expected, just another entry into this sub-genre with maybe enough explicit footage to give it the aforementioned notoriety, which alone does not a good film make. What I didn't expect was the atmosphere, the occasional insight (witness an early semi-rape scene involving rape-by-camera), the genuinely creepy close-ups of leering, panting men and all the other quirks that make this such a neat little flick. There is a lot of experimental sort of storytelling in this movie, as I guess was the style of the time (early seventies), and some of it is neat and some of it is downright annoying. But the overall effect, aided in no small part by the music, and aided also by the main character's inability to speak (had to have influenced Ms. .45, which came later) as well as the fact that I don't speak Swedish and this film is neither dubbed nor subtitled, is one of being underwater in a very polluted river. And that seems perfectly appropriate, since figuratively that's the story of the protagonist's life.

    The close-up hardcore porn footage is used to better effect than I've ever seen such footage used, as it is supposed to be disturbing and sickening (anyone who thinks about impersonal images like that when they think about real sex, the good kind, has got to be a few beers short of a case). However, it is somewhat over-used. There are some good scenes of drawn-out, methodical drug-administering, shotgun-sawing, martial arts training, etc. that give the film, at times, an edge of realism. This realism is shattered, however, by scenes of cars exploding at the slightest impact and the nails-on-a-chalkboard slo-mo shooting scenes (not just slo-mo, sloooooooooo moooooooooo). Comparing this to Peckinpah is like comparing Green Day to the Stooges.

    However, the entire film was redeemed for me by the last couple of sequences...one scene of her walking, all clad in black with her eyepatch and shotgun, amidst some shacks by a pier was straight out of a very dark western. The whole look of the film, especially the outdoor footage, is stark and desolate. Makes me want to go to Sweden. I was not let down by the last killing...the guy deserved that and more...it's a testament to the sort of infectuous quality of this film and the surprising abilities of porn star Christina Lindberg that I cared that much and even savored what happens to this guy. I've never actually savored the film re-enactment of the torture of a human being before seeing this film. More important than that, though, were the stark landscapes and windy, desolate atmosphere of the whole last sequence. "One-eye"'s cold-as-ice serenity as she sits and waits for her macabre plan to take effect is more satisfying than any of what she's waiting for.

    All this stark imagery, simplicity and symbolism, I think, makes this film more of a subversive feminist allegory than any other of its type that I've seen; because it is at times almost mythic, it doesn't have to be taken literally. It doesn't have to be about pimps kidnapping girls and force-feeding them drugs, it doesnt have to be about shot guns. It does make me wonder how Christina Lindberg felt about the film, and what she did after.

    One more thing: does a black-leather-clad, shotgun toting avenger driving around in a cop car through barren countryside remind you of anything?

    Definitely check this out if you're not squeemish.
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    • Release date
      • June 5, 1974 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Sweden
    • Language
      • Swedish
    • Also known as
      • They Call Her One Eye
    • Filming locations
      • Drottningholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • BAV Film
      • United Producers
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 44 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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