Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

BA_Harrison Complete with gratuitous hardcore insert shots and cadaver eyeball mutilation, 'Thriller–A Cruel Picture' certainly earns its reputation as a true exploitation classic. Unfortunately, a drawn out final third, featuring some clumsy action scenes and the occasional unintentionally funny moment, ultimately drains the movie of some of its power.Beautiful Swedish star Christina Lindberg plays Madeleine, a young mute woman who is kidnapped, hooked on heroin, and then forced to work as a prostitute. After clawing her first customer in the face, she is punished by Tony, her sadistic captor, who, in a particularly nasty scene, uses a scalpel to blind her in one eye (this realistic moment was reputedly achieved with the use of an actual dead body!).After her injury has healed, Madeleine returns to work, with an eye-patch to hide her injury, and reluctantly complies with Tony's demands, sexually satisfying a variety of sleazy clients (bonus sleaze points are awarded here for inter-cutting graphic penetration shots with those of Ms. Lindberg, to make it appear as though she took part in the adult action).As a reward for her good behaviour, Madeleine is given two wraps of heroin a day, a percentage of her takings, and Monday's off (a pension plan is not offered!).However, after the suspicious disappearance of her friend, fellow 'hooker' Sally (who vanishes, leaving behind a blood-soaked bed), the one-eyed, smack-addicted beauty decides to get even with Tony, her abusers, and anyone else who has given her grief. She spends her free days learning self-defence, extreme driving, and marksmanship, and, once she is proficient at all three, embarks on her mission to exact bloody revenge.Everything that leads up to Madeleine eventually kicking ass is extremely well done and delightfully sordid, just as an exploitation film should be. The pace is leisurely at the beginning, but never bores, with the sex, drugs and violence all explicitly depicted. Plus, the delightful Lindberg spends a lot of her time naked.Where Thriller does suffer is in its latter scenes, where a shotgun toting, leather-coat and eye-patch wearing Madeleine blasts her victims to kingdom come. Director Bo Arne Vibenius opts to film most of the shootings in such excruciatingly drawn-out slow motion that it's possible to pop out to the kitchen, fix a sarnie, make a pot of tea, and still get back to your seat before the body hits the floor. Imagine the gun-fights of Peckinpah or Woo at a quarter of the speed, but nowhere near as stylish, and you'll have an idea of what I mean.A final act of revenge is set in a suitably bleak environment and ends the film as one would expect—with 'one-eye' settling the score with Tony, in a slow and painful manner. Madeleine is seen driving towards the horizon as the credits roll.

Django Chaves A young girl (Christina Lindberg) is kidnapped by Tony (Heinz Hopf) who converts her in an addict to heroin and in a prostitute. She, of course, decides to take bloody revenge.Even if it's not the first film banned in Swedeen, this sexlpoitation film is as graphic as can you get, but is tastefully done in it's own distasteful images. Vibenus, sure can get a mood, that either you will love or hate. In it's original version, more than the blood and it's murders (The gore is not restrained but acceptable) is the sex scenes that take the controversy cake. The close-up of genitalia can make a mood if it's arguments are consequent, but here to be sincere, is only exploitative as porn.Still, the movie gets you. Lindberg and Hopf are right in the tone. It's moody, violent and hypnotic. Still this is really on tastes. The American cut, "They called her One Eye" restrain most of sex.

Boba_Fett1138 This movie does only partly lives up to its reputation. It's certainly a quite brutal movie with also some real explicit nudity and sex in it but at the same time the movie isn't really an uplifting or entertaining enough one. Bo Arne Vibenius' previous movie was a financial failure and to cover up for the losses he thought he should make the biggest commercial exploitation flick ever. Sex, lesbians, violence, it is all here in this movie, as well as a main premise in which a young woman violently takes revenge upon those who did her wrong and exploited her. Yet still as an exploitation flick the movie falls sort of short. It's because the storytelling just is a bit off at times and the movie has lots of slow moments in it, especially during its first halve. It really doesn't make the movie as fun to watch as its premise make it sound.Still it's a movie that constantly tries to shock, with either its very explicit sex or its violent plot. I still love the movie for this, also since it all got done in a quite unique style. This movie is a Swedish one so of course you are going to get something different from an Hollywood exploitation flick.It overall is still a good movie in parts but yet not as great or even as entertaining as it all could had turned out to.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Perception_de_Ambiguity The director allegedly stated that he intended to create "a commercial-as-hell crap-film" and as far as I'm concerned this describes it well, even if it could have been made a MUCH more satisfying viewing experience. Elle Driver, or whatever her name is, shoots down her tormentors way too easily. I guess that's what the extensive super-super-slow-mo is for, to cover up how uninspired the killing scenes are. Unfortunately seeing a 3-second sequence of a guy getting hit in the stomach and dropping to the floor stretched out to a full minute just gets boring after 20 seconds; yes, he will hit the floor and stop moving, we get it, move on. And to me it sounded like they used the exact same goofy scream for every kill.Another thing that hinders the fylm from being all too satisfying is that the ending fails to look beyond the successful revenge. Her kidnapper pimp gets her hooked on heroin so she is depending on him to receive her shots twice a day or else she will undoubtedly die (or so the fylm is trying to tell us). But what happens after the picture is over, she's running out of heroin and is short on money for a rehab? Will she die? The fylm did its best to establish the plot's necessary heroin device this way to make us believe that she will, or least it leaves open how she will overcome this obstacle. (The ambiguity excuse doesn't count here.) But even without this problem, what is Elle Driver going to do with her life? Did she learn anything from this adventure, or is the moral here that once a strong person gets victimized for too long (s)he will become a victimizer on her/his own (on her rampage she kills anonymous, innocent people, absolutely without any necessity, just for the heck of it, apparently). We learn little about her personality even though the camera occasionally even takes her position.If the fylm can't explain a plot point it just cuts to the next scene and it's full of obviously convenient turns, revelations and expositions. The prostituted girl gets unlimited freedom from her KIDNAPPER, as well as loads of money. Breaking out? Escaping? She didn't even have to do that. And why anyone would learn how to drive a car like a rally driver for the purpose of getting revenge by shooting people I will probably never understand. Does this skill prove useful to her in the course of the picture? No. But even if it would have proved useful it would have been just as silly and the setup would have looked very obvious. She also learns martial arts, which she uses ONCE in the film, and that is against two police men that are trying to arrest her. Police men that she WAITED for after killing two of the pimp's henchmen. Police men that MAGICALLY know that a crime was committed in some godforsaken warehouse at a godforsaken port.Of course none of the henchmen can even aim their mouths to a baby bottle, let alone aim guns to hit an unsuspecting target. And of course Elle Driver can't aim any better either when it comes to shooting the final enemy at the fylm's 75-minute mark. The running time is at stake here. Eventually she kills him in a slightly more original way, but even this is rather mild and anticlimactic. In general this certainly is no 'I Spit On Your Grave' in regards to vicious revenge. Elle Driver has little interest in making her tormentors suffer. Not the best thing for an exploitation flick. The things it does right are the simple plot (during the first half we witness the torment, and in the second the revenge), the one-dimensional characters, the female nudity and it even has hardcore sex scenes (although with somebody else's bare ass standing in for the main lady's).All this criticism aside, I found it to be an entertaining enough fylm, if it just wasn't so frustrating. The material could have been a winner in the hands of a better filmmaker.