YMMV / Thriller: A Cruel Picture

• Complete Monster: The brutal pimp Tony forces the heroine of the movie, Madeline, into prostitution where he abuses and mistreats the girls. When he decides he wants no attachment remaining for Madeline in the outside world, he forges a letter to her parents which causes their suicide. He later gouges out Madeline's eye when she refuses a client. In order to control the girls, Tony forcibly addicts them to heroin and leaves them unable to go without a fix for longer than a few hours which he provides only in exchange for them selling their bodies.
• Don't Shoot the Message: There's a potentially good female empowerment message, but it's buried under a mountain of gratuitous and exploitative nudity, to say nothing of the horribly homophobic portrayal of the sole lesbian character as a predatory monster. Though to be fair, the director made the film with purely mercenary motives and thus never intended it to carry such a message in the first place.
• Tear Jerker: Madeline going home, finding her parents hanged, then finding the letter that Tony wrote, and not saying anything but shedding a tear from her one good eye.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Despite her own opinions on the film, many regard Christina Lindberg's performance as Madeline as one of its highlights.
• Values Dissonance: The lesbian client is portrayed as a predatory sexual sadist who deserves to die for it. In modern times, such a depiction would be decried as homophobic.
• The Woobie: Madeline is sexually assaulted as a child, kidnapped and forced into prostitution by a sadistic man who forcibly addicts her to heroin, is repeatedly violated by various johns, loses an eye to said sadist, and has her parents tricked into committing suicide. You fuckin' kill those bastards, Madeline!

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