There's one movie called "Thriller:They Call Her One Eye" and I've heard some mixed reviews about it,but I'd rather rent it first and then decide if I want to buy it later.I believe I've gone through 10 movies or so over the last 5 years that I thought I wanted,but watched them again and decided,What was I thinking???
Oddly, I actually bought Thriller when it was released by Synapse. I bought the first version, A Cruel Picture, based partially on a whim. I'm so familiar with cult/b-movies these days that it's hard for me to find something I know nothing about. I'd heard some things about Thriller in the past, too, and it sounded like something I needed to see. There's a blurb from Tarantino that calls it the roughest revenge movie ever made. That also played a part in me buying it. He and I share similar opinions of exploitation and I'd call that a hell of a claim coming from him. Unfortunately, there's probably more to that quote that lists a few exceptions because I can think of dozens of rougher revenge movies than that one. It has nothing on I Spit On Your Grave. I'd even say Old Boy was rougher.
That doesn't mean it's bad, though. It moves slowly, but it has this Peckinpah presentation to the violence which happens in super slow mo every time and Christina Lindberg is bad ass (as well as hot as hell) in those fight scenes.
It's a rarity that I'll just spring for something, though. Usually I've read up on something before I buy it. I bought Darkness: The Vampire version based solely on the Rue Morgue page about it in one their issues last year that featured some great gore makeup. There's a reason I never got into that early 90's Bookwalter no-budget wave of horror and Darkness was one of them. While it wasn't a total bust, it didn't change my opinion of microbudget fan horror.
