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Bo Arne Vibenius, Christina Lindberg, Despina Tomazani, Gunnel Wadner, Heinz Hopf ...( see more  see more... ) , Hildur Lindberg , Per-Axel Arosenius , Solveig Andersson

A young woman (Christina Lindberg) struggles to overcome her tortured past, but runs into more trouble when she gets mixed up with a seemingly wonderful man … who ends up being the exact opposit...( read more  read more... )e. After she misses her bus to her job at a farm, the man picks her up and soon has her working as a prostitute and addicted to drugs. Her only chance to escape will be to learn martial arts and exact revenge on her pimp.

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Unrated, 107 min.

Directed by: Bo Arne Vibenius

Release Date: June 5, 1974

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DVD Release Date: September 28, 2004

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  • habitualdamnation
    January 19, 2008
    habitualdamnation
    Hmmm...
  • mjgildea
    October 16, 2007
    mjgildea
    Lots of unforgivable ridiculousness with the only highlights being Christina Lindberg and her lady garden you could undoubtedly hide a VCR in. It starts off pretty upsetting with childhood rape and I'm guessing the filmmakers planned on hitting the gas until they crashed through ...( read more)the wall but instead took the scenic way and ran out of momentum. The slo-mo action is nothing short of painful and the sleaze factor doesn't justify the viewing. Thriller could've been a whole lot better if it weren't for the unexplained randomness (i.e. where the hell did that horse come from?) and complete and total lapses in logic. I understand that I was supposed to abandon the regular thought processes I normally run with here, but caaaahm ahhhhn!
  • kenstachnik
    October 16, 2007
    kenstachnik
    Alot of really bad slow-mo...somehow this was made by Ingmar Bergman's assistant director
  • pier007
    July 24, 2007
    pier007
    Total grindhouse. fun and kinky swedish revenge flick with unnecessary hard-core porn and peckinpah like slow-mo violence.
  • Beefy
    September 24, 2006
    Beefy
    If you like exploitation fare, this one is a must see. Yes, that's a real eyeball.
  • acatnamedmoustache
    August 7, 2009
    acatnamedmoustache
    young girl forced into prostitution takes revenge on her customers and pimp. raaad
  • bdimayuga
    July 19, 2009
    bdimayuga
    This is Christina Lindberg's best performance and unfortunately one of her last movies before retiring from acting. She does everything but talk in this one. This is a very 1970s European movie and many of the elements and styles are very cheesy but if you take into account of ...( read more)the time it was made and do not compare it by todays standards it is a pretty good movie. It has sex and violence to the extreme and Christina excels at both especially on the former in which she is known for. FYI: She did not perform the hardcore sex scenes which were inserted without her consent. Had Christina continued acting I think she would have become a better and a more known actress because she had potential. She was and still is a very beautiful woman who physically had the best of everything.
  • ahhh1989
    May 2, 2009
    ahhh1989
    Good exploitation thriller, but the X-rated footage ruins it.
  • malacaynomuerto
    February 2, 2009
    malacaynomuerto
    La fotografía es pasadisima, una verdadera historia de venganza, sexo drogas y sangre que buena combinación
  • respecttheteletubies
    September 16, 2008
    respecttheteletubies
    Sweden, 1974; Abba was not the only good thing to come out of there at that time (although that?s a matter of opinion!), but also one of the most famous rape/revenge exploitation films ever made. The second film EVER to be banned in Sweden (contrary to popular belief, the first ...( read more)film banned in Sweden was ?Trädgårdsmästaren? in 1912!) is an incredibly interesting film and one that has many people split whether they do or do not like it.
    This film is an incredibly slow paced film. All of the shots last for a very long duration and everything takes its time, even when it comes to the, usually (in most other films) fast-paced, sequences these are all shown here in slow-motion. The use (or over-use) of slow-motion is one of the first things that will pop into my head with the mention of the title as I counted over 22 different shots in slow motion (all of which lasted at least about one minute). Now, I believe this is either a love or a hate thing about ?THRILLER...? since it can seem very repetitive and quite dull really, but personally I luv these slow-motion shots as they look beyond doubt magnificent and really make you go ?WOW!? as does most slow-motion footage. These slow-motion shots have probably influenced many, many films since, most obviously ?THE MATRIX? (1999; The Wachowski Brothers), both of which have the main character in a long leather black trench coat (which really adds to the ?uber-coolness? of the film ). As well as being incredibly slow ?paced, there is hardly any sound (music or speech) throughout the entire film! Again, this too splits many people, but, in my opinion, I believe this makes the film much more realistic (despite the slow-mo!) and believable as well as show just how brilliant the acting is (especially from the incredibly talented Christina Lindberg (Madeleine) ).
    But do not be fooled, this film is not all about the slow-pace, there is one segment of the film, which is quite fast (compared to the other parts!); in which Madeleine (One Eye) speeds through town in a stolen police-car, sirens blazing, like a crazed person. In this sequence, it seems that every single car (besides the police car) explodes ? even at the slightest thing! They just burst into flames! Swedish cars, eh? ;) In a way which reminds me of a terrible GTA rip-off , or some Monty Python sketch. This again is quite stupid, but who cares, it provides a quick thrill for the audience and thats exactly what an exploitation film is supposed to be about! Which brings me nicely onto another debate; is this an exploitation film? Or is it a low-budget Art-House film? Well, I would say that it ticks the boxes for both ?genres?. Of course it has guns, violence, nudity (a lot of it), drugs, prostitutions, fighting, cheap thrills, but it is also it has many beautiful and thought-out shots (one of my favs being the shot on top of the speeding police car, between the two blaring sirens as Madeleine zooms through the town) similar to many of Stanley Kubrick?s films. Prehaps its an ?Art-House wannabe??
    Now, lets talk porn! What a great opening line to a paragraph! The UNCUT edition of this film (released by Synapse) contains all the XXX (real penetration) inserts that the director used. When I read about this film, and heard about this inserts, I was expecting to see two people ?at it?, but what I got instead was two people ?at it? but with the camera RIGHT UP IN THERE! I did not expect it to be that close! It is not very pleasant to see some guy?s hairy parts rise up and down on your large TV screen ? all I can say is thank God I never watched it with my parents! But is this a bad thing? Ok, so its not pretty to look at and porn should stay in the porn genre, but isn?t that the whole point? To show just how disgusting and off putting the acts being down to young Madeleine are? I found it to really make you think just how dreadful it must be. Or is it simply Vibenius giving the audience a cheap thrill and nothing more? I don?t know. Besides that reason, this film was also banned due to the infamous eye-gauging scene. The rumours that the reason why it looked so realistic was because they actually used a real corpse were confirmed by Christina Lindberg and said it was the corpse of a young girl who had commited suicide. But when I watched it, I wasn?t exactly spewing my guts out all over the room like Linda Blair.
    The thing that I liked about ?THRILLER...? which other infamous rape/revenge films, including ?I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE? (1978; Meir Zarchi), ?IRREVERSIBLE? (2002; Gaspar Noe) and even ?DELIVERANCE? (1972; John Boorman) do not do, is show the rape victim (although I?m not sure if Madeleine is one since she knows she must have sex to get the money - so is that rape? I dunno!) training and becoming tough. In a very similar style to ?ROCKY? (1976; John G. Avildsen) we see Madeleine train and grow from strength to strength ? again making this film much more believable and realistic as well as showing her true determination (after seeing her parents kill themselves upon reading a letter than supposedly Madeleine wrote but actually the boss Tony did!).
    With every rape/revenge film in depth review, its very difficult not to discuss gender. So here it is! Unlike ?I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE? which is, arguably, a very feminist film (although there are arguments to suggest otherwise) I would argue that this film is very patriarchal. Firstly, Madeleine (obviously(we see enough off her to tell!) is female) and MUTE which reinforces the old misogynistic saying; ?women should be seen and not heard?, furthermore, Tony is seen to be incredibly dominant, as well as even though Madeleine becomes strong and powerful later in the film, she only achieves this through the expertise of male characters (i.e. the policeman, the army man and the driver instructor).
    Overall, this film is not perfect and is quite flawed with many illogical things happening (for example how comes no cops pull Madeleine over when shes in the stolen police car speeding through Sweden? And where the hell did she get a horse from?!) as well as being quite slow and, possibly, boring to some people, I found this to be an excellent film with lots of style which has influenced many films (but famously Quentin Taratino?s ?KILL BILL? (2003; 2004), in which Daryl Hannah?s character Elle Driver also has an eye-patch which is colour co-ordinated with her clothes.) and has a superb ending as well. However, the XXX porn inserts means that I could not recommended this to everyone which is a shame as it really is a great film.
    So do I luv it? Yes, siree,I luv it!
    I give it 4/5 Swedish luuvs!

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