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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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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
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7.9K
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    • Bo Arne Vibenius
    • Bo Arne Vibenius(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Christina Lindberg
    • Heinz Hopf
    • Despina Tomazani
    • Bo Arne Vibenius
    • Bo Arne Vibenius(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Christina Lindberg
    • Heinz Hopf
    • Despina Tomazani
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    • 96User reviews
    • 120Critic 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
    • Driving Teacher
    Pamela Pethö-Galantai
    • Young Frigga
    Lennart Robertsson
    Hans-Eric Stenborg
    • Sex Buyer
    Stig Ström
    • Sex Buyer
    Lars Sääv
    Bruno Sörwing
      • Bo Arne Vibenius
      • 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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    Thriller Or: Revenge Of The Ginger Cyclops!
    The 1973 violent Swedish revenge film Thriller: A Cruel Picture, also known as They Call Her One Eye, greatly influenced Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill and you can see why even with only one eye.

    The film has rather racy full-on penetration sex scenes, which were apparently popular at the time, done by body doubles, they actually work and match well intercut with the real actors performing simulated sex in something other than the usual dull missionary position movie sex scenes.

    It's a quiet film with little or no score, set in a Swedish small town with perhaps the world's most ineffective police force and most unobservant neighbors ever, pay no attention to that shotgun killing across the road.

    Gaps in logic galore in the story of an innocent young ginger girl left mute by a childhood rape who becomes addicted to heroin by a vicious pimp and enslaved into prostitution before honing her skills in hand-to-hand combat, guns and stunt driving before at long last taking her bloody revenge.

    Ridiculous yet one of the better cult films I've seen.
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      • June 5, 1974 (United States)
      • Sweden
      • Swedish
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      • Drottningholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • BAV Film
      • United Producers
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    • 1 hour 44 minutes
      • Mono

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