Thriller - A Cruel Picture

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This is the film that Quentin Tarantino (Director, KILL BILL VOL. 1 & 2, PULP FICTION, RESERVOIR DOGS) called "the roughest revenge movie ever made!"… THRILLER - A CRUEL PICTURE is finally making its U.S. DVD debut in this Uncensored Limited Edition. With only 25,000 units in the total DVD production run, this cult gem will soon be gone forever! Order now so you don't miss out on THE exploitation DVD release of the year!

Growing up mute after a childhood sexual assault, a young girl (played by beautiful cult starlet Christina Lindberg) spends years working on a remote farm. After missing the bus one day, she is picked up by a suave young man who takes her out to dinner, drugs her and forces her into a life of drug addiction and prostitution.

Torn away from home, she rebels against her captor only to have one of her eyes gouged out as punishment (in a scene rumored to have been filmed with an actual corpse). After learning of the death of her parents and fed up with the cards life has dealt, she trains herself in the fine arts of fighting, killing and revenge. Transformed into a one-woman killing machine (and armed with a sawed-off shotgun), she uses her new skills to enact bloody revenge on those who have done her wrong.

Synapse Films has painstakingly restored THRILLER - A CRUEL PICTURE from original vault materials to bring you the totally uncensored version of the ultimate revenge-exploitation movie! Originally released in the U.S. in a heavily truncated form as THEY CALL HER ONE EYE, THRILLER is presented here with all the graphic sex, violence and action intact. Over 20 minutes of additional footage has been restored!

Customer Reviews:

Unredeeming of social value, I give it four stars........2007-08-21

First of all, make sure you buy the red (limited edition) and not the yellow (vengeance edition). The former has footage the latter doesn't have and you are watching this genre of movie, you probably aren't into tasteful edits for the sake of decency.

The film covers the abuse, rape, maiming and disfigurement of a comely young thing who was a child sexual abuse survivor. But don't cry for her, by the end of the film she is giving as good as she gets, and all those who touched her will be sorry/killed.

The sex in the red version is rated X where you can see the special hug that adults do in close up graphic detail, so close up in fact that it seems unlikely that the actress who plays the main character was used to film it. To put it simply, sex is definately being done, but it seems clipped from some other movie that amazon doesn't carry.

The action/violence is actually poor, and in slow motion similar to the action sequences from an old Bionic Man episode. But at least it is needlessly graphic and somehow fulfilling, when the entire work is seen as a gestalt.

Besides, if one wants slick Hollywood violence where the squibs fire on time and the blood doesn't look like a Ragu product you are better served with a Coppola or Tariantino movie. But if you want to be schocked sickened and titillated scores of times in an hour and a half, this is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. The main charcter is a deaf mute, but her violence speaks most eloquently about the sound and fury that is woman scorned.

Hardly Rough In The Revenge Department.......2007-06-27

Yep...I fell for Quentin Tarantino's recommendation on this one. Before "Kill Bill", I was unaware of this film but I figured if he, being an exploitation afficianado, loved this film, I might find something memorable or entertaining here as well. When I read "roughest revenge movie ever", I'm thinking of "I Spit On Your Grave". If any movie can top that one, I will gladly tip my hat. "Thriller" does not come close to being in the same league as the aforementioned, at least in terms of revenge.

However, the circumstances under which "One-Eye" is living, the setting is ripe for brutal revenge. Afer experiencing a traumatizing molestation as a child, she is kidnapped by this Leisure-Suit Larry type of guy, looking suspiciously like Larry Dallas with a mustache. He shoots her full of heroin for a while and preps her for a life of forced prostitution where clients of all types and fetishes come to his swingin' pad to have their way with her. In fact, one such client becomes the reasoning for our "hero" being named "One-Eye". In the grand scheme of things, this has little or nothing to do with anything relevant in the movie.

After about the first 15-20 minutes, "Thriller" takes a turn into more of a pornographic nature with many sexual situations laid out on screen for all to see. Some situations are left out but it's hard to tell if that was done with purpose or just an oversight. The rest - consisting of anything short of oral sex, is on screen for all to witness with the occasional close-up. Pretty much nothing is left to the imagination and nothing is implied. Somewhere amidst all of this sex, One-Eye finds the time to take karate and sharpshooting lessons to eventually exact her revenge.

Nevermind the obvious questions about how she was able to find the time to prepare herself with kung fu or why her pimp would even allow her out long enough to learn these skills. If you've seen any of these Euro-sleeze exploitation movies before, you alredy know that logic eludes these films almost entirely. If you have not experienced these types of movies, the obvious lack of continuity, narrative and sense is very apparent from the outset. Still, this could have been a relatively exciting film had the big build-up to the apparent revenge had been something more than it turned out to be. After sitting through about 75 minutes of porn and drug addiction mixed in with occasional scenes of preparation to exact her revenge, One-Eye finally goes on her "rampage" against her aggressors and, in the end, it is no more "brutal" or "rough" than anything you've ever seen cable TV, only with much less stylization.

So yes, the big finalé is all a giant waste. After pulling no punches with the pornography scenes, the "killing spree" at the end is no more exciting or heart-pounding than something you might have seen on Hill Street Blues. Even One-Eye finally getting her pimp was a big build up to nothing. With the sex, nothing is left to the imagination. When she kills her assailant, you get nothing. In a way, this could be the result of voyeurism on my part - wanting to see grizzly death sequences after seeing so much explicit sex. But that's the point of exploitation films - nothing is supposed to be implied or left to the imagination. It's the trade-off for sacrificing story, character development, acting and all of the other traits of a good film. If you must see this movie, rent it first. Otherwise, skip to something that lives up to it's moniker.

Turn it on for the slo-mo violence, stay for the hard core sex.......2007-06-12

Some people say that the hard core sex scenes are clumsily edited into this movie. I strongly disagree. Seeing in extreme close-up the one customer plow her back passage with his John Thomas and then deposit his creamy appreciation on her buttocks did a great deal to advance the story line for me. Without that scene, I would have been asking far too many questions. Bravo!

So bad it's BAD!.......2007-06-02

This film really doesn't even seem to try in the ol "Revenge Movie" genre. All of the action scenes are in slow motion and just terrible really. I mean a few scenes would be ok but in the end it makes the film really look dated and shoddy.

I'm sure it has it's fans, what film doesn't but this is also the true X rated version also with all of the super dirty old school porn inserts. Blech!!!! It is just disgusting and dated. It doesn't enhance what she goes through and makes it just look cheap. In the end though I believe that the hardcore inserts were needed to get people interested because the film is absolutely ridiculous. You'd do better to find the "Pinky Violence" films or even some Pam Grier movies like "Coffy"/"Foxy Brown". This film could have been a classic without the hardcore garbage and better violence. During that time period they could have learned to do it better even on a low budget as many films proved this time and time again.

Good representative of 70s European movie industry.......2007-05-17

I dont know which one of the 1000 things shall i write to the ones who are disturbed by the hardcore and blood scenes!
1- Buy the "venegeance" version. Or better, dont buy this movie.
2- Cinema is an art form, accept it in its completeness. Modern people are so much used to getting their demands done in a second, some are really spoiled. A movie isnt a bigMac; you dont have the priviledge of asking the director to take the onion out of it. Eat it as it is or dont buy it.
3- The very same people are infact responsible of censore. Again, if your stomach cant take it, dont eat it.
4- Thriller is a very good representative of 1970 European movie industry in many aspects. Read about movie history first and learn why directors had to include such scenes. Thriller was made in 1974, so it was shaped by that days' environment, so think according to that. You cant ask the studio to take out the scenes nor do it yourself at home just because it doesnt suit todays culture or rather just because it doesnt suit your personal taste.
5- You sound like a retard who doesnt like a color in a picasso painting and painting it over. Editing a scene in a movie -after its completion by its director- is nothing different than painting over a picasso.
6- Learn to accept any kind of art "as it is". Its a form of respecting others thoughts

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Anita : Nymphomaniac (Special Edition)
Director: Torgny Wickman
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Original Uncut Version with Scene Selection
Swedish Audio Only English Subtitles
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A young girl named Anita (Christina Lindberg) suffers from psychological problems and sexual promiscuity due to her troubled childhood and uncaring parents. She meets Erik, a student at a local university, who tries to help her through her troubles by analyzing her past relationships. After revealing her most intimate and violent encounters to Erik, he determines that, in order for her to overcome her nymphomania, she first must experience a ''true'' orgasm!

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