Did you people see the same film I saw?

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Dear Bo Arne Vibenius, I think Thriller - A Cruel Picture is a very original and arty revenge film. I am not surprised Tarantino liked it. It is such a directorial film.I enjoyed the extensive use of point of view shots to emphasize Frigga's (Christina Lindberg's) childhood consciousness and even her muddled psyche as a grown up dealing with abuse. The point of view shots were used mostly when she interacted with strange men. The film begins on a farm in a rural Sweden. But the film's pace does not pick up once the action movies to a city.The languid pace is a bit of a turn off. The narration is very matter of fact. You could call it a very cold revenge procedural - right from training to execution. The coldness could be due to Frigga's (interesting name!) jaded mental state. The penetration scenes were also a turn off because I am not a fan of hardcore.The repetitive slow motion action scenes were quite well done. Especially the Karate fight with the two policemen. But the film could have really used a memorable background score. The prog-rock (?) background score did not have any impact on the slow motion scenes.Christina Lindberg is superb as the mute lady. She conveys so much pain, hurt and rage through her facial expressions. Definitely one of the greatest performances by an actress in a B-movie.It was an innovative effort for a low budget film, Bo.Best Regards, Pimpin.(5.5/10)

I've seen both Synapse versions now. The 'yellow' one I saw a couple of years ago and I loved it, and finally last night I watched the 'red' one. And that last one has the porn in it. I'm pretty sure I like the yellow one better, even though I don't want to bash the red one; there is merit to bringing the awful truth of Madeleine(Frigga)'s situation to the screen in such a way.Otherwise 'Thriller - en grym film' is a hypnotic work, like a gruesome fairy-tale, that oozes serenity and simplicity, though it has certain amateurish aspects (acting, settings) that could take some of the fun out of it for some - I did hardly mind. Beautiful shots of rural Sweden or an city park contrast with the simple, grayish bedroom where Madeleine is tortured and abused. The main villain is a smooth operator, but his modus operandi is all the more evil and unscrupulous; the way he tears M. away from her family, causing them to commit suicide is as dark as things can get; comeuppance is inevitable... or maybe unfulfilling? Or simply the least she must do?Some aspects are rather unbelievable, such as the opportunities that M. gets to be trained in karate, shooting and driving, but in a way adds to the hyper-reality that 'Thriller' is shrouded in. The same goes for the fact that at some point every car that is passed, must crash and burn - that almost becomes funny at some point. But that fun is over when the last scene plays out; one of the best final revenge scenes I have ever seen. The camera-work in some of the (revenge) scenes was done with a rare sort of camera, provided by the Swedish army if I remember correctly from the 'yellow' edition, and that adds yet again to the hypnotic atmosphere of the film; even if those scenes would not be so great if they were played at normal speed and some acting in it isn't exactly fantastic... And last but probably most: the presence of the one-eyed little woman in a black leather jacket holding that giant shotgun: Christina Lindberg as Madeleine is epic, epic, epic.A big 9 out of 10.

I found this movie to be difficult to review mainly due to the fact that I am watching it in 2011. I am watching it 37years after it came out.So the "shocking scenes of violence" is no longer shocking. The "shocking story" is also no longer shocking. hence i will review the movie on how much/little I enjoyed the movie.I watched the uncut version of the movie which featured unsimulated sex scenes. There is actual penetration shown. However apart from the purpose of titillation the scenes were actually unneeded as they were just cut scenes. There are parts of the movie that also serves little to no purpose other then to showcase the "shocking violence" (circa 1974). These scenes made the movie disjointed. The ending and the vengeance was also so so (circa 2011 violence).The pacing of the movie is slow until about partway. I don't know, while I thought the movie was not bad, its not what you call enjoyable. I think thats the problem with genre movies like this. It relies on the "shocking" but time has move on and the shock effect isn't there (probably not a good commentary on present society). However I would say its watchable slightly entertaining.

I glanced at a couple of Bergman films the other day, but couldn't get into them. This film shows that there is something other than Bergman out of Sweden.I heard that this was a predecessor to Baise-moi, and I wanted to see Christina Lindberg, who I watched recently in Sex & Fury. If you are not looking for a Baise-moi type movie, then there is a R Rated version of this film called They Called Her One Eye.I thought for a moment I was watching Bergman's The Silence, as there was no dialog. Madeliene (Christina Lindberg) never does talk in this film. Things don't move very fast either. It is excruciatingly slow.She is taken by a scumbag (Heinz Hopf) that hooks her on heroin and has her prostitute herself after he stabbed one of her eyes out.She gets Mondays off, and apparently, she manages to use them to learn karate, driving and shooting. Of course, she is still hooked while doing this, which stretches credulity.The sex scenes are raw, and you do not know if she is using a double. Maybe they were just porno clips spliced into the film.Once she is ready, she gets a shotgun, saws it off and seeks revenge. The blood effects were really pathetic. Some of the things just didn't make sense along the way. I guess that is why Bo Arne Vibenius only had a three-film career.