Karateci Kiz

Back in the mid-80s, this movie was renowned among my buddies as the worst ever made. In the big world of bootleg VHS from foreign lands, that's saying something. Bad acting, directing, stunts, scripting, SFX, editing ... simply mind-blowing. We couldn't believe our eyes. It was like a bad trip; awful but captivating. So of course it did the rounds, and I must have seen it five or six times, to howls of incredulous laughter. I was stunned to find out had its own entry on IMDB - I believed it lost and mercifully forgotten. But I would definitely give it a rewatch.

Deaf-mute blondie(Akin)lives a poor but idyllic life with her old father working as florists. One day five escaped convicts visits their house. They kill the old man, rapes the girl and steal all their money. These convicts looks and act like real sleaze bags, Rifki from "midnight express" seams like a choirboy in comparision. Because of the very cruel rape the girl gets a shock which leads to that her speech comes back. She swears to get here revenge, so she educate herself to be a cop and Karate-expert (this goes really quick and by the time she is finished the crooks are still unleashed)... This movie is rather fun and entertaining. But it ain´t no real masterpiece in it´s genre, I would only recommend this film too people who likes odd movies. There are many logical mistakes in the plot and some actors are real terrible. But I like the mood of this kind of movies it´s fun to see, the look of the diabolic crooks will give you nightmares hehe.

We fans of cult cinema know that Turkey made a number of action flicks in the 1970s. Several of these were ripoffs of movies from the US - there was a Turkish "Exorcist" and a Turkish "Young Frankenstein" - but they made some original movies. A really crazy one was "Karateci Kız", about a woman who seeks revenge on her father's killers. The copy that I saw made it even zanier: the opening credits were in French, the movie was dubbed in English, and had Danish subtitles (and the woman looked Danish!).

There's not much in the way of plot, but the truth is that these sorts of movies make life worth living. It surprises me that Quentin Tarantino hasn't made a tribute to Turkish action flicks. If he ever does, he'll probably have to cast Filiz Akın and Cüneyt Arkın (with Samuel L. Jackson around to say the word that rhymes with brother-sucker).

Anyway, this is a fun movie. You're sure to love it.

I am really sad. If you want to watch a revenge story for a laugh, you can watch this. The Girl with speech impediment is recovering her voice without surgery. Oh my god, "shock" what you are capable of. Due to her greed for revenge, she becomes a sniper within a few days. She goes to the end and learns karate and immediately puts on a black belt. Then she suddenly enters the police school and becomes a cop-detective. Incredibly bad scenes, incredibly bad acting... This movie should be shown as an example of absurd cinema in universities...

A death scene in the movie was voted as the worst death scene in the world. I have no words for that, but the whole movie is nothing but Kill Bill. Tarantino should explain this...