Mad Heidi

2022
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

4.6K

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Casper Van Dien, Max Rüdlinger, David Schofield, Kel Matsena, Almar G. Sato, and Alice Lucy in Mad Heidi (2022)

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Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Horror

Swiss mountain girl Heidi is abducted by brutal government troops and must defend herself and fight a war against a cheese-fueled machinery of hate.Swiss mountain girl Heidi is abducted by brutal government troops and must defend herself and fight a war against a cheese-fueled machinery of hate.Swiss mountain girl Heidi is abducted by brutal government troops and must defend herself and fight a war against a cheese-fueled machinery of hate.

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

4.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 13 wins & 14 nominations

Videos4

Trailer 1:56

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Official Teaser Trailer

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Official Teaser Trailer

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Storyline

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Trivia
About 9½ minutes into the film, there is a video short called 'Nutrition and Patriotism'. Several characters in this short say, "I'm doing my part." This is an homage to Starship Troopers' which also starred Casper Van Dien.

Goofs
The Matterhorn is said to be located near Davos, in Southeastern Switzerland, in fact it is located just above Zermatt, in Southwestern Switzerland. LIkewise, in other shots the Matterhorn appears near a large town. This is a deliberate geographical error to underline the character of the film.

Quotes
Heidi: Rest in cheese, bitch!

Crazy credits
SPOILER: The Swissploitation Films logo is a parody of the Paramount Pictures logo, using the Matterhorn mountain and Swiss cheese wheels for the stars.

Connections
Featured in Nightmare on Film Street: Nightmare Alley: Interview with MAD HEIDI CO-Directors Johannes Hartmann and Sandro Klopfstein (2022)

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Featured review

6/10

Hard ... but not impossible

It is hard to criticize a film which starts off boasting about how it was crowd-funded by the common folk, with no interference from the big corporations or studios. Hard. But not impossible. The first red flag is that the uber-high ratings from the early posted member reviews do not match the ratings left by members who saw the film later, gave much lower ratings, but did not bother to leave a review. The explanation? Mad Heidi is loaded to the brim with raw energy and great expectations. But very little of that actually translates into a movie that anyone would care to waste 90 minutes on. The script seems like to have been written by someone trying to piece together the best parts of Max Max, Monty Python, and every Kung Fu film you have ever seen. The result is supposed to be unique and fresh. Instead it basically re-invents 1960's "experimental cinema," and does not do a very good job even at that. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))