Mad Heidi

The trouble with Mad Heidi is that it actually does achieve basically everything it sets out to do. You know, it's this ridiculous quasi-exploitation movie that's just the dumbest thing they could come up with. It's difficult to be overly critical of a movie like this when it's clearly supposed to be like this.

My biggest complaint is that it needed a lot more violence. It has some, especially in the second half, but I think to really be effective in what it was doing, it needed to go all the way and basically be all violence all the time. As it is, Mad Heidi got a little too bogged down in showing Hedi going mad and not enough time showing her be mad.

I think what the production team for this either forgot or failed to realise is that it's not like in the early '70s anymore where people are going to be shocked by a little bit of gore anymore; especially in a movie like this which is mostly a fairly standard action movie otherwise. It really needs to either be all gore all the time with basically no plot or it needs to sorta be trying to be this decade's answer to A Serbian Film before it really gets that shocked reaction from most people.

I don't think this was awful or anything because it's doing most of what it set out to do and I think it was worth doing. It's just that I think they probably needed to lean into the violence a bit more.