Thriller - en grym film (1974)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Bo Arne Vibenius

Writer:

Bo Arne Vibenius (writer)

Release Date:

5 June 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Tagline:

The first film, ever, to be banned in Sweden!

Plot:

A young woman, muted after a sexual assault as a child, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who have wronged her after being kidnapped and forced to work as a prostitute.

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Martial Arts | Brothel | Heroin | Death

Cast

Christina Lindberg	...	Frigga / Madeleine / One Eye
Heinz Hopf	...	Tony
Despina Tomazani	...	Lip-stick lesbian
Per-Axel Arosenius	...	Frigga's Father
Solveig Andersson	...	Sally
Björn Kristiansson
Marie-Louise Mannervall	...	Woman in village
Hildur Lindberg	...	Mother's Friend
Stig Lokrantz
Olle Nordlander
Marshall McDough
Gunnar Palm
Pamela Pethö-Galantai	...	Young Madeleine
Lennart Robertsson
Hans-Eric Stenborg

Also Known As:

Hooker's Revenge (USA) (reissue title)
They Call Her One Eye (USA) (censored version)
Thriller (Sweden) (short title)
Thriller: A Cruel Picture (USA)
Crime à froid (Canada: French title) (video title) [fr]
Desenlace mortal (Spain) (original subtitled version) [es]
Enögd (Finland: Swedish title) (informal title) [sv]
Thriller (Italy) [it]
Thriller - ein unbarmherziger Film (West Germany) [de]
Yksisilmäinen (Finland) (informal title) [fi]

Runtime:

104 min | UK:80 min (heavily cut) | USA:82 min (R-rated version) | Australia:92 min (R-rated cut)

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:(Banned) (cut) (1975) | Sweden:15 (re-rating: 1974) (heavily cut) | Sweden:(Banned) (original rating: 1973) | UK:R (original rating: 1974) | USA:Unrated (uncut) | UK:X (re-rating: 1976) (heavily cut) | Australia:R (cut) (1976) | West Germany:18 | Italy:VM18 | USA:R (heavily cut) | Canada:18+ (Quebec)

Filming Locations:

Drottningholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company:

BAV Film

Trivia:

A long standing rumor surrounding the film was that a real corpse was used for the scene where Madeleine's eye is taken out with a scalpel. In a March 2006 interview, Christina Lindberg confirmed this. The body was of a young girl who had committed suicide. Makeup was added to the eye, and the shot was filmed in the hospital that had received the body.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the police car runs over a piece of grass between two roads, you can clearly see tire tracks from earlier takes.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Terror (1978/I)

What a Film !

This film deals with a young girl named Frigga (One Eye), who was raped and as a result of this terrible event, she was unable to speak and her family did everything they could to give her the best doctors to possibly bring back her ability to speak. Frigga one day is going to the doctor's office and misses her bus and is picked up by a driver on the road and his name is Tony, (Heinz Hopf) and poor Frigga is kidnapped and turned into a drug addict for sex and very poorly abused. Frigga begins to learn how to break away from these cruel and horrible men who have subjected her to all kinds of evil sexual experiences and even cut out her eye. This is a film which will shock you and you will hardly be able to realize just how this film will ever end. Dare you to see this film, it's HORRIBLE.