Thriller - A Cruel Picture
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Movie Reviews of Thriller - A Cruel Picture
Movie Review: the best exploitation film of the 70's? most likely
Summary: 4 Stars
yes, it's slow at points. yes, the sex is somewhat...gross. (all that hair, but they're swedish, give 'em a break.) yes, Virgin Spring is better, but that's like saying Noam Chomsky is smarter than Corky, it's a given.
one of the many subtle yet noticeable influences on Tarantino's grab bag of 70's violence "Kill Bill" i can safely say that this little film surpasses both volumnes tremendously for one sole reason:
the ending.
what Christina Lindberg's character does to her pimp is just a classic piece of revenge. so clever, so quietly brutal and relentless that it made up for some of the more slowler parts of the film.
Movie Review: Thriller - a cool movie
Summary: 4 Stars
wow, they don't make them like this anymore!
Can you imagine going to a theatre and catching something this - not today. highly unlikely in todays PC world! But thankfully for the glorious world of DVD, cult movies like this have new life breathed into them.
This is cool movie, ok I knocked off a star because the acting does grate a little but it has everything, shocks, sex, violence, great looking female star - all expliotational elements that of course has Tarantino fans drooling.
Recommended for Cult DVD fans!
Movie Review: Wow
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a mesmerizing flick. The violence is over the top, but integral to the plot.
It is a rare dubbed film that I can watch at all. This one is so well-done that the language issue is not even noticable.
If you're a fan of Tarentino, check this one out. See where he got some of his best ideas.
Movie Review: Sweet and Hot revenge!
Summary: 4 Stars
This 70s classic is a definate cult fave. Christina is hot! The movement into the hardcore was an unexpected "thrill"!Movie Review: A gritty revenge story in it's time.
Summary: 3 Stars
If there's one real reason to see the movie, it's Lindberg's performance. She handles the entire movie without speaking a word, using only her face and body language, and for most of the movie's running time she doesn't even get to use her whole face, making it doubly impressive. At one point there is a shot where the camera circles her as she watches a karate demonstration, and because of the eyepatch we only gradually see how fascinated she is. Like the hypnotically lovely Soledad Miranda of, again, Jess Franco's movies, she carries the whole thing with her presence alone.
As with many notorious films, the story behind the making of "Thriller" is as interesting as anything in it, maybe even more so. Vibenius's previous film had been a commercial failure in his native Sweden. To recoup the money, he decided to create a crassly commercial film, shooting it as cheaply as possible to turn a profit. The film was shot in a very ad hoc way, with no location permits or other official paperwork; at one point Lindberg got into trouble during the shooting of one of the gun-training scenes when passers-by thought she was firing at them. When it finally came out it was banned at home and could only find release in the United States after 20 minutes were cut from it. Bootlegs of the uncut version circulated for decades--but when Synapse Entertainment began preparing the worldwide DVD version, Vibenius did everything in his power to keep it from being released. Possibly to keep it off the market, since he didn't originally credit himself as director.
The most controversial thing about "Thriller," aside from the violence, is the presence of several hard-core scenes that show the girl's prostitution work in graphic detail. It's ugly and distracting, but it isn't remotely erotic, and I think that was the idea (in as much as it's possible for a movie like this to entertain such advanced ideas). Then again, if Vibenius did indeed have contempt for his own movie, then the sex sequences seem even less like exploitation, but more like sabotage--as if he put them in there to spit on the whole thing, so to speak, and make it all that much less worthy. It's a weird gray area, since it's not clear if that's what he wanted to do or simply what happened as a by-product.
Later filmmakers would see "Thriller" as something to emulate or get ideas from. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, of course, name-checked Thriller (and Lady Snowblood, and many of Franco's movies, too) as his chief inspirations for Kill Bill and later movies. "Snowblood" is a great and I certainly enjoyed it more than Thriller, but it's not hard to see how both appealed to Tarantino, with his love for Seventies sleaze and outlandish violence. Die-hard savories of grind house sub-basement exploitation movies will eat it up, God love `em, but the rest of viewers will probably not need to bother.