Mad Heidi

A crazy B-movie flick from Switzerland by fans for fans. A girl named Heidi is kidnapped by Nazis and moved to a harsh women's prison with harsh rules. Luckily she manages to escape, gets proper martial arts training and kicks everyone's ass with a halberd! The plot is silly and the visuals are very B-grade, but it's teeming with cool and original ideas, absurd and twisted humor, grotesque gore with practical effects, a heroic female protagonist, Swiss Nazis, allusions to Switzerland (chocolate, cheese, Swiss pocket knifes), 1970s nudity and a national obsession with cheese. Lactose intolerant people belongs behind bars! The action is good too, it has a very Rodriguez touch, like in Machete, Iron Sky, Sky Sharks – those who like that kind of shit, will come to their own here. Some of the lines are really crazy. Among the actors, Casper Van Dien as the dictator and the attractive Alice Lucy as Mad Heidi are great. A fun and twisted one-off for a narrower audience. Swissploitation first of its kind. 65%. (25.12.2022)

"Rest in cheese, bitch!" Heidi, the aggressive little girl from the mountains fighting against the cheese dictatorship of the Fatherland. The result of this clash is a piece of exploitation cinema that aims to slice raclette with a machete but often only chops it with a Swiss Army knife. Käseführer Casper Van Dien might have sported a nice red tracksuit and entertained the crew between takes, but I'd rather play Dr. Szell and use all the aforementioned Victorinox tools to inspect his pearly whites. He is, after all, the cause of my ninety-minute humor intolerance. (18.01.2023)