I Spit on Your Grave (Millennium Edition)

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Summary: Revenge of a woman.
Review: "I Spit On Your Grave" is not as bad as it's critics say it is.Yes the rape scenes are hard to watch.And the revenge scenes are fairly tame.Unless you have never know a woman who was raped,or you were raped yourself.You then could not under stand how a woman could do such things.I found this film to be very refreshing.Mainly because any man who rapes a woman should have done to them,what is done to these four men.

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Summary: so so
Review: "I Spit On Your Grave" is one of those movies that I'm not real sure if I like or not. The rape scenes were brutal, as were the victim's revenge scenes-- brutality simply isn't that big of a deal these days, so it wasn't as "shocking" as I thought it would be. The bathtub scene was a little difficult to handle-- and it happened so fast I couldn't look away. "Last House On the Left" is a much better rape/revenge movie, with a stronger plot, better acting, and a surprisingly well done soundtrack the blends awkwardly but effectively with the subject matter-- check them both and you be the judge. If senseless, lengthy, hillbilly rape scenes is what your looking for check this bad-boy out.

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Summary: Exploitation at its worst
Review: It was 6 years ago and i had finally purchased my first DVD player for 250 dollars. Pretty good bargain back then. I was staying with my Pops back then and he had brought home his first DVD purchase, It was "I spit on your Grave". Imagine my chagrin. "Its got a hot chick on the cover with a knife" he said. Then we sat down and watched one of the most horrific Rape and Murder movies ever. First the acting is atrocious, the story is so silly and the Director really got his jollies off of overextending the softcore rape scenes that were more laughable then horrific. Not that rape is in anyway laughable but if you plan on tackling a serious subject then have some class. If you want to see a brutal and TOTALLY realistic Rape and revenge flick then track down the French film "Irréversible". Now that film will make you squirm, cry, scream or a combination of all three. Just stay far away from this trash unless of course silly violent sex flicks are your cup of tea. If so, watch away!

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Summary: Contrived, Dull, and Melodramatic
Review: I Spit on your Grave is first and foremost, an awful title for a film. The word "art" should never again be associated with this contrived and melodramatic film. The rape scenes are filmed from the rapists' point of view, and are FAR too long, in the sense that after 20 minutes, they lose their power, thus it becomes pornography. According to this sexploitation movie, revenge is a churchoing solution to violence. Something unforgivably dull about this movie is that there is NO soundtack. You would think they would learn that music is powerful after the harmonica scene, but unfortunately not. "I'm telling you (the town) it's too peaceful" is an example of the laughable dialouge that painfully ensues.
Save yourself the misery and instead buy the powerful, artistic rape film "Last House on the Left" which is great whatever you classify it as, horror, rape, revenge, or 70's darkness. But sadly, I Spit works on no levels, so don't waste you're money on it like I did.
Last Note- I Spit on Your Grave shows the rape victim get dirtier as she is sexually assaulted, and she is olny clean when she kills her assailents 'gloriously'. In Last House on the Left, it is the killers that become dirty and discusting after destroying their victim's innocence and lives.

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Summary: BARFARAMA!
Review: Yuuch! what the hell is up with that, this is not a horror film it's only mad ass violance. I did not know what hell I was watching I give the movie credit for it's nice scenery of big green trees and river oh yeah and the chick camille was nice too, but the rest of film can go in the garbage.

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Summary: Spit is a classic of it's time. -Mixter of other Cliche's.
Review: This is a wildly intense horror film of it's time. -"I
Spit On Your Grave." -Grapples many horror cliches on
screen. -Camille Keaton. -Plays a women victim of rape

and unless she can put a stop two it. -She can. -This
movie holds the barrier for wes cravens. -The Last
House On The Left. -Which was the best movie ever
made. -And I think. -The director might of that
and write his own version of rape and torture. -I

may just give away a little on this film. -It starts
out as the nice girl going on vacation and is
confronted by some hoods and they beat her up

in a cabin and she escapes and enact a bloody
revenge on the hoods. -I saw this movie some time ago on
Video. -VHS. -And the movie looked grainy in it's hay day.
this makes the perfect transfer now on DVD. -I am glad
that; -Horror; -Garu. -Joe Bob Briggs. -Still cares about
the horror genera. -I hope he keeps it up the day he dies.

I can't believe they did not ask him two do a commentary
for; -The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. -Special Edition. -And
The Last House On the Left. -The two films that Monster
vision never allowed two show. -TNT. -Was sinsere on
cinsor part. -Briggs. -Is the best commentator.

I've wish they make him. -President.. -Of; -DVD Horror.
Back two the Indy Horror slasher. -This is The Last House On
The Left; -clone. -It is one of the second best and I do
compare it two that flick. -Ms. -Keaton. -Does a good job.
Specially she may be related to. -Mr. -Batman. -Him self.

Michael Keaton. -I don't care how badly the critics squash
these movies. -Their good. -They just tell a story like it
is. -Specially. -I know the kid is mentally handicap.

I seen the part where she is sunbathing on a boat and
spotting the guys. -Their I said. -This is a great horror
movie. -In it's dark nature.

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Summary: WOW WHAT A RAPE MOVIE
Review: when i first saw this movie i thought it wasen't gonna be that good. BUT BOY WAS I WRONG. this movie was so strong with violence and rape that i thought i was watching a real rape scene. the girl in this film played a part that i never seen anyone play in a movie. she was incredible. if you like a action packed gore rape movie then this is the one. because the rape scene in this movie blew the death wish movies away.

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Summary: Extremely Controversial Exploitation Movie
Review: I love horror movies and I am fan of most of them and will watch almost anything because I like the genre. For the first time I have witnessed something that I felt went beyond the accepted boundaries of art and certainly moved into the realm of films that feature unforgiving scenes like animal abuse (Cannibal Holocaust comes to mind). I would love to give this five stars but I will not because in my opinion this film has no place in cinema or on the video shelf. If anything this film should only be released as part of an art-house circuit or as film lecture material. I certainly believe that this film should not be available to all adults and should be accompanied by some sort of a follow-up lecture in which a professional explains to the viewer the problems that this type of film has on society. Sure it is daring and bold and tries to show us what is beyond our acceptable standard but it also presents an unpardonable and excessive amount of sexual violence towards human beings, especially women. I hope a film like this is never made again.

The film has pretty low production values and is a bit of a mix bag in terms of the quality of the acting on display. The sound is not very good and the execution of most of the dialogue is pretty poor. Where this film outrivals most for its type is in the brutality and its horrific chauvinism that reaches its peak in a very graphic thirty minute gang rape sequence that gives this film its notoriety. That actual sequence is made all the more brutal because one of the gang members has a mental age of about ten.

The premise is simple. Our protagonist is a young writer, played by Camille Keaton (Buster Keaton's grand-niece and the wife of this film's director) who journeys out to "redneck" county to write a book. There she is accosted by four hillbillies who proceed to do the deplorable with her in a very disturbing way that is often as violent as it sexually distressing. The problem with this sequence is that it lasts so long and in so many different locations as they drag their victim about the place. One could only imagine what purpose all of this serves and if the film is not just catering for a very unbalanced and criminal type of viewer. At the same time we can say that this is "just a movie" or "art" but it does go beyond that - especially when bottles are involved.

The question that is poised at the back of the mind when watching this (and it is not a very pleasant experience), is if this is just exploitation material or does it have some moral or underlying philosophy to explain its actions or why it should have been made in the first place? Maybe this is exploitation cinema just testing the limits of what it can do? Well the film makers have done just that, however the director has said that he made this movie to show the ugliness of its theme. Who does the director think he is fooling? This film is exploitation through and through with one true purpose - to abuse the protagonist, disturb the viewer and to provide the splatter for the gore hounds - nothing more, nothing less. This is not "The Accused" or "Irreversible". It is not even "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Last House on the Left". This is akin to "Cannabis Holocaust" or "Cannabis Ferox". Not only is this movie prejudiced, sexist and down right cruel it also seems like potentially dangerous material for the more unhinged elements in our society.

The second half of the film concentrates on the victim's revenge for the crimes committed again her and this is really where the entertainment can be found in a short of female version of a Charles Bronson/Clint Eastwood vigilante retribution movie. To be honest the film would have been much better, and acceptable, if it cut down on the intensity of the sexual violence at the start of movie. Certainly there are a number of interesting segments, one involving a shopping delivery that plays itself out in a very strange way. One of the deviants also tries to justify his actions by blaming the victim instead. Another scene involves a very shocking dismemberment in the bathroom (very realistic). All in all the second half is quite interesting but the first half is revolting and disgusting and like I said, probably dangerous material in the wrong hands.

In short this movie has no place in cinema or in the video shelf. It should be part of art-house circuits or film lecture halls, period. I think this is the first time that banning a film makes sense. This is a rape movie that is unpleasant for most but gratifying for the maniacs that will enjoy it... over and over and over again.

This movie is just plain wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

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Summary: Wow..........oh yeah did i mention Wow
Review: Let me first start off by saying that i am horror fan thru and thru but this was somthin i wasn't really expecting in a movie.
I heard about this movie from people, about how shocking it was and how just plain raw it was. Now i have seen all The Faces of Death and alot of gore in my day, but this was different.This movie made my stomach turn with its vivid depiction of rape.I mean the rape sequences in this movie are unparallel to anything i have ever seen or want to see for that matter. I gave it four stars just because of how powerful of a movie it really is.
The revenge plot to the movie is sweet the kills kinda like friday the 13th... the film it self is low budget but i think thats why its good, gives it a sense of realism. Let me warn you if you think this is another Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre your dead wrong.

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Summary: Long before Lorena Bobbit, there was Jennifer
Review: Jennifer is a writer who heads out to a country cabin to spend time writing her novel. What she didn't count on was the small town local yokels, a group of savage .... rednecks who see her as an easy target.

Which she is. They all set upon her and rape her one by one, in a fairly drawn out part of the movie. She is raped, then let go, then caught and raped again, then let go, then caught and raped again, and so forth. Finally, the "boys" convince the dim-witted grocery deliver boy to go back in and kill her, which he finds he cannot do, so he fakes it.

So what's a girl to do? Instead of reporting the crimes, Jennifer decides to get even. One by one, she picks her assailants off. The bathtub scene is not to be missed, and what separates this from the rest of the cheesily made 70's splatter films is her languid calmness as she sets about her business.
The down side of this is that the DVD version promises digital remastering. That's fine, but don't count on good sound quality, if they remastered the video they seemed to have forgotten about the audio. The sound is as bad as it was in the original.

What made this movie so scandelous back in the 70's was the nudity and what was, back then, a fairly realistic and brutally intact rape scene. Watching it again now, it is as cheesy as the rest of the movie, and yet still holds it's entertainment value against the newer and better made films.

If you are a fan of cheesy older splatter films, you will love this movie. If you are not, you might want to pick up something else. All in all, I give it four stars. Enjoy.