Mad Heidi

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.

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

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

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?)

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.