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Thriller – A Cruel Picture (1973)

Thriller – A Cruel Picture poster
Original title
Thriller - en grym film
Directed by
Bo Arne Vibenius
Genre
action film, martial arts film, exploitation film, rape and revenge film, erotic thriller, thriller film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 218 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mute young woman is drugged and forced into prostitution. After years of abuse, she trains herself to get revenge on the men who destroyed her life.

bleakslow-burngrimrelentlessdisturbingcoldly violentunflinchingretributive

What happens

Thriller – A Cruel Picture (Swedish: Thriller – en grym film) is a 1973 Swedish rape-and-revenge exploitation film written and directed by Bo Arne Vibenius under the pseudonym Alex Fridolinski, and starring Christina Lindberg and Heinz Hopf. It tells the story of a mute young woman who is forced into heroin addiction and prostitution, and her subsequent revenge on the people responsible. The film was released in the United States in a truncated version by American International Pictures under several alternative titles, such as They Call Her One Eye, Hooker's Revenge and The Swedish Vice-Girl. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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