MAD HEIDI Review: Mad, Cheesy Fun

Swissploitation made landfall in 2018 with a splashy crowdfunding campaign ripe with all the trimmings of grindhouse fanfare for the inspired action cheesefest, Mad Heidi. The evident success of the campaign has since brought the film to life with the efforts of Johannes Hartmann and Sandro Klopfstein at the helm, and rousing reception at festivals around the world and its current event screenings stateside. At the forefront of it all is Alice Lucy in the title role for the story of an idyllic girl living the Swiss Alps. She lives with her grandfather, Alpöhi (David Schofield) who disproves of her loving relationship with Goat Peter (Kel Matsena) for reasons not revealed until just a little later as the film shows that he’s been trafficking illegal dairy products much to the chagrin of Switzerland’s fascistic regime led by President Meili (Casper Van Dien). When Kommandant Knorr (Max Rüdlinger) catches and publicly […]

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