AKA "They Called Her One Eye" in the USA (personally I think that's a way cooler title), "Thriller" is one rough, brutal tale of revenge. One that never skips on the details.
An attractive mute girl is picked up by a polite stranger and goes out for a drink or two. She has the unfortunate luck of ending up at the strangers house, where she is forcefully injected with heroin and abused into submission. As time passes she becomes addicted to the drugs and is used for prostitution by her sadistic host. Not until she has suffered every indignity a person would be asked to suffer through does she decide to rid the world (and herself) of some desperately un-needed human garbage.
The tale stays the strait and narrow in the revenge-story department. The plot points will be instantly familiar to anyone that's seen the likes of "Death Wish", but the comparisons end there. As soon as our lovely lead has her eye cut out of her head, you know you are in for something different.
That brings up a note on the films violence. This is a really violent film. From the afore mentioned eye-gouging to the super slow-mo shotgun blasts, there is some very graphic bloodletting. On top of the more traditional violence, there is a fair amount of sexual violence involved. The poor girl is subject to numerous (and always uncomfortable) sex scenes with clients for her boss. Most note worthy of this is one set-up that includes some X-rated inserts. While fully explicit sex should suggest misogyny and exploitation, it never feels that way here; the sex in this film is just, in short, not right. There is nothing erotic of enticing about it.
So why would one want to watch such a graphic picture? Because it's an entertaining film, simple as that. A revenge piece is the ultimate form of the underdog story, and everyone loves an underdog.
8/10
An attractive mute girl is picked up by a polite stranger and goes out for a drink or two. She has the unfortunate luck of ending up at the strangers house, where she is forcefully injected with heroin and abused into submission. As time passes she becomes addicted to the drugs and is used for prostitution by her sadistic host. Not until she has suffered every indignity a person would be asked to suffer through does she decide to rid the world (and herself) of some desperately un-needed human garbage.
The tale stays the strait and narrow in the revenge-story department. The plot points will be instantly familiar to anyone that's seen the likes of "Death Wish", but the comparisons end there. As soon as our lovely lead has her eye cut out of her head, you know you are in for something different.
That brings up a note on the films violence. This is a really violent film. From the afore mentioned eye-gouging to the super slow-mo shotgun blasts, there is some very graphic bloodletting. On top of the more traditional violence, there is a fair amount of sexual violence involved. The poor girl is subject to numerous (and always uncomfortable) sex scenes with clients for her boss. Most note worthy of this is one set-up that includes some X-rated inserts. While fully explicit sex should suggest misogyny and exploitation, it never feels that way here; the sex in this film is just, in short, not right. There is nothing erotic of enticing about it.
So why would one want to watch such a graphic picture? Because it's an entertaining film, simple as that. A revenge piece is the ultimate form of the underdog story, and everyone loves an underdog.
8/10