With absolutely no pretensions that it’s anything but one big joke, the makers of "Mad Heidi" take the beloved character from children’s literature and turn her into a figure of vengeance.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 23, 2023

I loved Mad Heidi. This could be a classic midnight movie.

| Jul 22, 2023

A wink-of-the-eye film like Mad Heidi benefits from familiarity and claustrophobia.

| Jul 21, 2023

A crazy film that deserves to garner a cult following - it’s bonkers, it's big, it's brash, and it’s definitely not perfect but it is a lot of fun (and who doesn’t like seeing the fascists get their comeuppance?)

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jul 21, 2023

All in all, it’s a fun romp. You’ve got great acting, great visuals and absurd scenes like execution by Toblerone, so it’s easy to recommend.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2023

‘Mad Heidi’ should appeal to anyone with questionable taste and a twisted sense of humor.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2023

Mad Heidi imagines what would happen if Shirley Temple grew up to become a revolutionary, fighting against an insidious corporation intent on corrupting Switzerland’s famous Emmentaler cheese.

| Jun 22, 2023

It’s an ersatz grindhouse movie whose 92 minutes might better have been reduced to the enticing cheese of a mock trailer in Tarantino’s 2007 Grindhouse anthology.

| Jun 22, 2023

The acting, effects, cinematography, and world-building are all incredible from start to finish.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jun 21, 2023

Hartmann and Klopfstein have clearly done their homework and put great effort into recreating the grindhouse experience...It’s all glaringly self-aware and it’s custom made to be seen with an audience who knows exactly what they’re in for.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2023

All of this silliness makes the film a joy for fans of exploitation films. Which makes it all the more disappointing that there’s some unnecessary racial ickiness included as well.

| Jun 21, 2023

You may develop lactose intolerance after viewing the over-the-top comedy filled with zombies, female bodybuilders, ninja nuns, and plenty of gore. Shot in the tone and style of 70s grindhouse cinema with solid performances by Alice Lucy and Max Rüdlinger

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2023

Here’s a case where the premise is far better than the finished product, which turns out to be an unfortunate example of what happens when a movie is simply trying too hard to be clever (and fails).

| Jun 20, 2023

Mad Heidi was a pure dose of old school sleaze, that from start to finish as its trying to hit every sub-genre, while continually upping the madness.

| Jun 20, 2023

The problem with Mad Heidi isn’t that it’s trash—it’s that it’s cut-rate trash that tries way too hard without being near as wild or as provocative as it seems to think it is.

| Jun 20, 2023

For those looking for more than processed meat on the bones of their over-the-top entertainment, Mad Heidi may represent yet another new sub-genre: Thoughtsploitation.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 20, 2023

A love letter to the exploitation films of past days. Alice Lucy proves herself to be a capable action star in a story filled with memorable characters. It is refreshing to see modern cinema so readily look to the 70s for inspiration.

| Jun 19, 2023

It stretches the imagination and the format of whatever you think is possible in a film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2023

Cheese-balls-to-the-wall movie! It took us on a wild ride I didn't expect or anticipate.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 14, 2023

An impressively constructed offering of pure nonsense, working with technology and dietary impishness to secure an entertaining sit for those willing to go along with its insanity.

| Original Score: B | Jun 13, 2023