Thriller - A Cruel Picture -1973- Extended -108... -

★★★★☆ (4/5) Deducting one star only for the pacing in the middle act, but adding a trigger warning for nearly everything else.

The first hour is brutal, clinical, and uncomfortable. It is not sensationalized; it is depicted with a cold, documentary-like detachment that makes you feel every violation. But once Madeleine trains herself in shooting, knife throwing, and martial arts? The final 30 minutes become a surgical cleansing of Stockholm's underworld. Thriller - A Cruel Picture -1973- Extended -108...

Quentin Tarantino is famously a superfan. He named his production company (a reference to a different film), but he directly lifted the final act structure for Kill Bill Vol. 1 (The Bride’s training montage, the silent rampage, the list of names). However, where Tarantino winks at the audience, Thriller stares through you. This is the nihilistic, punk-rock older brother to the Hollywood blockbuster. ★★★★☆ (4/5) Deducting one star only for the