Thriller: A Cruel Picture

The coldest film in this category, banned outright in Sweden, and the one Tarantino has said Kill Bill is built from.

A mute girl is abducted, addicted to heroin, forced into prostitution, and has an eye cut out for resisting. She spends her one day off a week learning to shoot, drive and fight.

Bo Arne Vibenius made it under a pseudonym after working as an assistant to Bergman, and has said he set out deliberately to make the most commercial and most unpleasant film possible.

The technique is what makes it unbearable. The revenge sequences are shot in extreme slow motion, so a shotgun blast takes twenty seconds, and there is no score at all in long stretches.

Christina Lindberg has no dialogue in the entire film.

The eye surgery is real footage of a real procedure on a cadaver, which Vibenius has confirmed.