Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Leofwine_draca THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE is a notorious exploitation film from Sweden which has been championed by none other than Quentin Tarantino. It's a rape-revenge thriller that sees an innocent young girl forced into becoming a heroin addict before being sold into prostitution. However, she trains in the martial arts and also learns how to use various weapons, which allows her to take revenge on the men (and women) who previously abused her.I have to admit that rape revenge films aren't really my cup of tea as I find them far too sleazy to enjoy and THRILLER is certainly one of the sleaziest. It's a grim and slow-paced exercise in fear and humiliation that seems to reveal in violence meted out towards women in much the same way as LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, for example. As a film, it's not particularly proficient, with the drawn-out pace making it tough to sit through and plenty of dumb dialogue to drag it down further.Christina Lindberg makes something of an iconic impression as the lead character although she plays it subdued for the most part, which I think works. The supporting cast are nothing to write home about. The violence, when it eventually arrives, is played out in extreme slow motion, which I thought was an effective way to do it. Unfortunately there's far too much in the way of depravity to get through first, including hardcore sex scenes and a scene involving a scalpel and an eyeball which I understand was performed on a real corpse. Yeah, it's not really the sort of film you can say you enjoyed, although you will want to take a cold shower afterwards.

PimpinAinttEasy 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)

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.

merklekranz Both "Thriller a Cruel Picture", and "Ms.45", are female revenge films, sharing the basic theme of retribution. "Thriller"s vengeance is targeted at specific offenders, while "Ms 45 targets men in general. Both films contain slow motion kills, however "Thriller" overuses the effect, while "Ms.45" has one terrific slow motion scene. The heroines are both mutes, but the acting surrounding Zoe Tamerlis in "Ms.45" is superior to the porno-type characters that interact with Christina Lindberg. The graphic porno scenes in "Thriller" are overused, while "Ms.45" sticks to "R" rated material. The real deciding factor that elevates "Ms.45" to greatness compared to "Thriller" is the strategic use of black humor, completely missing in "Thriller" - MERK