#thriller: a cruel picture

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THRILLER - EN GRYM FILM (Thriller: A Cruel picture) Bo Arne Vibenius, 1973

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[uspiria]

Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973) dir. Bo Arne Vibenius

[brokehorrorfan]

Black Circle will be released on Blu-ray on September 5 via Synapse Films. The 2018 Swedish/Mexican psychological horror film comes with Rickard Gramfors' soundtrack on CD.

Adrian Garcia Bogliano (Late Phases, Here Comes the Devil) writes and directs. Thriller: A Cruel Picture’s Christina Lindberg stars with Felice Jankell, Hanna Midfjäll, Erica Midfjäll, Hanna Asp, Johan Palm, Hans Sandqvist, and Inger Nilsson.

Black Circle is presented in high definition with Swedish DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Sound and English subtitles. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director Adrian Garcia Bogliano

Inside Black Circle – Behind-the-scenes featurette

Interview with writer-director Adrian Garcia Bogliano and actress Christina Lindberg

Don’t Open Your Eyes – Original short film

Teaser trailer

Still gallery

Soundtrack CD composed by Rickard Gramfors

Two sisters, Celeste and Isa, fall under the terrifying spell of a mysterious vinyl record from the 1970s. Used to help with stress and bring the listener to a state of calming self-hypnosis, the recording has the unfortunate side-effect of manifesting a doppelganger of the listener into our world. This “double” then grows stronger by the day to copy and take over the life of the person who played the vinyl.

Seeking the help of the woman who originally created the recording, hypnotist Lena Carlsson (Christina Lindberg), Celeste and Isa try to banish the doppelgangers back to their own world before their lives are lost forever.

Pre-order Black Circle.

[ultimate-horror-genre]

gore & disturbing: extreme vs. cosmic horror

extreme: exploitation horror features the most extreme examples of gore, mutilation, and cannibalism in films. the graphic nature of these films is hard to stomach as they put all of the brutality on display. due to their taboo nature and plotless nature, a lot of these films have been banned in various countries.

examples: thriller: a cruel picture, ichi the killer, a serbian film

cosmic horror: named after h.p. lovecraft, lovecraftian horror, or cosmic horror, places horror on the unknown or beings beyond human comprehension.

examples: the mist, the void, annihilation

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On October 21, 2016, Thriller: A Cruel Picture was screened at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival.

[ryanmoody]

Cult Moody’s 13 Films for Halloween

Due to life sucking I am only able to watch 13 films this year. My yearly Halloween film selections to celebrate the holiday! These include horror, sci-fi, cult, B-Movie or Exploitation films I have never seen.

La Llorona (1933)

The Phantom of the Monastery aka El fantasma del convento (1934)

Kwaidan (1964)

Stanley (1972)

Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)

Ms .45 (1981)

Videodrome (1983)

Society (1989)

Hatching (2022)

Skinamarink (2022)

Megan (2023)

Renfield (2023)

Evil Dead Rise (2023)

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I watched Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)

Bought this on DVD recently, just because I wanted to see it for awhile now.

A mute young woman is tricked into heroin addiction and sex slavery. After being brutalized, the young woman eventually decides to get her revenge.

"Thriller: A Cruel Picture" has inspired endless other revenge films, including Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill". But, this isn't a fun action flick the likes of "Kill Bill". We are in darker territory here.

Swedish director, Bo Arne Vibenius, is a man who liked to push boundaries during his short but memorable film career, and "Thriller" definitely speaks to that.

This is the essence of exploitation filmmaking, while being so much more. Certainly, the film looks the part of most other genre pictures of the era, and the plot lends itself to that type of gritty and grimey storytelling, but "Thriller" feels more well crafted than it's contemporaries. It actually manages to evoke real emotion, sympathy and disgust.

Concerning a somewhat heightened, but ultimately realistic version of those stuck in sex slavery and heroin addiction, "Thriller" is an exploitation film that earns it's scenes of revenge. The beginning, in which a little girl is being abused by an older man, is done with a dark artistic flare which allows us to experience a little girl's confusion and horror, before having her innocence stripped away. It's a moment that sets the tone for the darkness to come.

"Thriller" includes full penetration hardcore pornography. (The kind of pornography that will not turn you on, but rather turn your stomach) It also features a woman's eye being gouged out. Something made worse by the fact that crew cut the eye out of an actual corpse to achieve this gruesome effect. (This was a rumor about the film for a long time, which has since been confirmed. Supposedly it was the corpse of a girl who had committed suicide, and the scene was shot in a hospital morgue. It does not get much darker than that in the filmmaking world, unless we go into actual film deaths and tragedies.)

I think people expect films like this, the 60's and 70's era exploitation films, to be unintentionally funny or less intense than modern day films. But, make no mistake, this is one of the darker things I've watched lately. If you're here for the revenge, you get that. There's tons of slow motion murder, car chase scenes and fake blood. But, you go through hell with the lead character before the relief of revenge comes.

Like Ken Russell's "The Devil's" I recently bought a physical copy of "Thriller: A Cruel Picture", because it's near impossible to see unedited on streaming. The American edit "They Call Her One Eye" removes a lot of the original film, and I personally don't approve of editing films for content. It's sad that films like this aren't consistently streaming and available, because they have their place in the history of filmmaking as an art form.

Now that I've seen this film, I'm glad I own it. I like this film. Well, "like" is a strong word for a movie as unpleasant as this, lol. I appreciate this film. I love the grindhouse era and I think this fully encapsulates what I love about it. The promise of seeing something wild, uncompromising and made quickly, cheaply and dirty. Sure, watching it can be trying, but it deserves to be seen. It's inspired so much in the film world and is no doubt a classic of a very special time in cinema.

[edgeyberzerker]

SKETCH DUMP!!!  

I’ll probably draw these in good some day but I figured I’d share them since I finished a sketch book 2 days ago.  I don’t go for aesthetic, I just experiment and sketch in them.  

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[mtonino]

Thriller – A Cruel Picture (1973) Bo Arne Vibenius

Thriller - en grym film/  Bo Arne Vibenius/ 1973

[sonjackcarl]

[uspiria]

Christina Lindberg in Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973) dir. Bo Arne Vibenius

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coomgeneration on ig

[mtonino]

Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973) Bo Arne Vibenius

Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)

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