A ★★★★½ review of Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)

This is a raw masterpiece, a film I would place in my top 10 favorite Swedish films. Even though it is full of "buts". For starters: it's not a movie for everybody. Rape-revenge films isn't for everybody. No movie is for everybody (except maybe Galaxy Quest?). An exploitation film, yes, but it doesn't take any shortcuts, it makes choices other rape-revenge films wouldn't do which might've been more right for story structure reasons but been much more... stupid. Instead it is much more nuanced than it really have to be. For instance, the way they use the male AND female