One of the sexploitation world’s most famous Actresses WANTS to be disturbed!

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Christina Lindberg was the star of a series of films in the 70’s known as “Artsploitation”: European films with artistic merit that were also full of sex, nudity, and violence.

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Here are three reasons that I love her most iconic role: in the European Art House revenge movie known as:

Thriller A Cruel Picture

1 -Thriller: A Cruel Picture

Lindberg stars as a young woman who struggles to recover from a savage rape. She accepts a ride from a man who drugs her, gets her hooked on heroin and forces her to become a sex slave.

This leads to the second reason this film is a classic:

They Call Her One eye!

2- They Call Her One Eye!

Yes, when she tries to escape, they gouge out her eye!  Savvy Producers re-released the film in the mid-70’s with a new title, even though it was the same movie.

A long-standing rumor surrounding the film was that a real corpse was used for the scene where her eye is taken out with a scalpel. In a March 2006 interview, Christina Lindberg confirmed this. Yes, an actual eye was gouged out for the movie, from the body of a young girl who had committed suicide.

This leads to the third reason this film is a classic:

Hookers Revenge

3- Hooker’s Revenge!

 

Wait, what?  That’s right, the film actually had a THIRD title in the 70’s!  What’s amazing is that she isn’t even a hooker in the film – but she DOES exact some incredible revenge against her tormentors.

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Quentin Tarantino, who has called Thriller “the roughest revenge movie ever made’, recommended that actress Daryl Hannah watch the film to prepare for her role as the one-eyed killer Elle Driver in “Kill Bill”.

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The film, no matter which title it goes by, is a great action film with tons of nudity – pure “euro-sleaze” of its time from the 70’s, and Christina Lindberg is terrific.

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Make sure to check out this 70’s sexploitation classic – first, check out the trailer: