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The Vicious Breed

Klubb Super 8 · Vinegar Syndrome · Listed September 28, 2026

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Klubb Super 8 is a Swedish independent research outfit/film archive/film club/film distribution company dedicated to Swedish exploitation Cinema that has been operational for almost 25 years, releasing films on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. Klubb Super 8 also owns the subsidiary Cultpix.com, a global streaming platform focused on vintage exploitation/genre/cult movies from around the world.

Juvenile delinquent classic filled with brawls, booze and sex. The tough young gangster Myggan (“The Mosquito”) escapes from juvenile prison, heading straight for trouble.
What follows is a breathless catalogue of bad decisions: a stolen gun from a military depot, a string of burgled summer houses, a crashed car, a shot police officer, and a girlfriend driven to prostitution to keep them both alive. The newspapers call him the “Valla Desperado”. The censors called the whole thing "a speculation in cynicism" and tried to ban it outright. They lost—though they did carve out four minutes before letting it through.

First-time director Arne Ragneborn was twenty-nine years old and apparently had no interest in making anything polite. His debut is lean, mean, and genuinely uncomfortable—a juvenile delinquent film that earns its genre credentials without winking at the audience. Ragneborn would go on to make four more features in rapid succession, consistently drawn to desperate youth, alcohol, violence and the jagged edges of the Swedish dream, and consistently locking horns with the censors along the way.

The film was restored by the Swedish Film Institute.

directed by: Arne Ragneborn
starring: Arne Ragneborn, Maj-Britt Lindholm, Inga Gill, Lars Ekborg, Jan-Olof Rydqvist, Sif Ruud, Åke Grönberg
1955 / 77 min / 1.37:1 / Swedish DTS-HD MA 1.0

Additional info:

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • Image and Poster Gallery
  • Trailer
  • Swedish Film’s Bad Apple No 1
  • Interviews with Gun Zacharias (Ragneborn’s wife and screenwriter), Bengt Lindström (cinematographer), Inge Ivarson (producer) and Bengt Bengtsson (film professor, author of the book Ungdom i fara/Youth in Peril)
  • 50s Youth Culture and Cultural Backlash in the East and West
  • Video essay by Andrew Nette, editor of Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980
  • Halvan, Slampen and Tofsan (1954) Short film by Egil Holmsen
  • A Study in Arne Ragneborn’s Censorship Cases – 20 pages
  • English subtitles

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