I Spit on Your Grave

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Summary: One of the most shocking films ever!
Review: I have the unrated version of I spit on your Grave which is a really sick film that deals with sodomy and torture. Anyway, this film is about a writer Camille Keaton who escapes to connuticut to work on her first novel. A few local men from town decide to get a women for there mentally retarded friend who is unable to go through with a rape so his buddies do it for him. After, they decide that she is better off dead so the men send there retarded friend to murder the victim but he is unable to go through with this as well. Later, in the film when the victim recovers. The rest of the movie is about Camille Keaton and revenge. Probably one of the most imfamous films in the world that has shocked many people. If you're a horror fan you probably want to check this movie out for it's explicit nature and graphic gore scenes...

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Summary: Before Bobbett there was I Spit on Your Grave!!!
Review: This film should inspire all who have been victimized in this world. Of course I am joking. At last a film with absolutely no redeeming qualities to it. This is a revenge film. It is graphically violent and is quite sadistic. Don't expect to see any high budget gore. This is a true brutally violent movie. After a woman is gang raped by several men, she decides to take the law into her own hands and deal out her revenge. The rape scene is long and drawn out and is quite brutal. Rarely do movie rape scenes get this brutal. It actually gives a sense of reality in its brutality that is rare in film. Real rape is extremely violent and this film does nothing to cover it up. Not that that's a redeeming quality. There is nothing to like about this film unless your sick but that is why its actually good. There is no feeling sorry when she enacts her revenge on these men. There is absolutely no warmth in this film. No heros. This film is completely cold from beginning to end. The bath tub scene is the highlight of the film. Before Miss Bobbet there was I Spit on Your Grave. Its not one of the most entertaining films. Don't expect to be entertained. Expect to be left with an empty feeling after watching this one.

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Summary: One of the most infamous exploitation movies ever made
Review: When movies first came out on video there were two legendary exploitation films I had to track down. One was "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the other was "I Spit on Your Grave," which is actually the more memorable film of the pair overall (although I do grant the highest place to the "hook" scene in TCM). Director Meir Zarchi's 1978 film has become rather infamous, since critics hated it, audiences were outraged, and the film was banned in Germany and Great Britain. The story, such as it is, finds Jennifer Hill (Camille Keaton, Buster's grand-niece) out in the woods of Connecticut to work on a novel when she crosses the path of some local boys who decide she should be the first sexual partner for their mentally-disabled friend. When he cannot complete the rape, his friends do it for him. Then they decide that they are not done with Jennifer.

At issue are not Jennifer's specific acts of revenge, including the infamous bathroom scene, but rather the series of brutal rapes that precede them. I do not want to meet anyone who is not disturbed by these rape scenes and I think it is fairly obvious that Zarchi intended to make audiences uncomfortable. In retrospect you have to wonder about all those movies with rape scenes that do NOT upset the audience (the current obvious exception that proves the rule would be what happens in "Monster" right before the first murder). But Zarchi certainly pours it on thick, absolutely assuring that things go beyond the tolerance level of anyone who watches this film. So the bottom line is that this film will upset you and it is therefore effective at doing exactly what it wants to do. I have always considered this an "X" rated movie although I would not consider it pornographic in the traditional sense. But it is a very disturbing film and I do not think I would want my kids to see it until after they graduate college (if ever). Anyone renting this film for cheap thrills is in for a shock.

As I now understand it, this 1978 film was originally released as "Day of the Woman," but that rather innocuous title was replaced by the well known "I Spit on Your Grave," although the film was also screened as "I Hate Your Guts" and "The Rape and Revenge of Jennifer Hill." All of this is interesting since it seems the producers were trying to pass off this film with both higher and lover levels of pretention. The cult status here is more for the shock value than any cheap artistic pretentions, that is for sure.

Rating:
Summary: One of the most infamous exploitation movies ever made
Review: When movies first came out on video there were two legendary exploitation films I had to track down. One was "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the other was "I Spit on Your Grave," which is actually the more memorable film of the pair overall (although I do grant the highest place to the "hook" scene in TCM). Director Meir Zarchi's 1978 film has become rather infamous, since critics hated it, audiences were outraged, and the film was banned in Germany and Great Britain. The story, such as it is, finds Jennifer Hill (Camille Keaton, Buster's grand-niece) out in the woods of Connecticut to work on a novel when she crosses the path of some local boys who decide she should be the first sexual partner for their mentally-disabled friend. When he cannot complete the rape, his friends do it for him. Then they decide that they are not done with Jennifer.

At issue are not Jennifer's specific acts of revenge, including the infamous bathroom scene, but rather the series of brutal rapes that precede them. I do not want to meet anyone who is not disturbed by these rape scenes and I think it is fairly obvious that Zarchi intended to make audiences uncomfortable. In retrospect you have to wonder about all those movies with rape scenes that do NOT upset the audience (the current obvious exception that proves the rule would be what happens in "Monster" right before the first murder). But Zarchi certainly pours it on thick, absolutely assuring that things go beyond the tolerance level of anyone who watches this film. So the bottom line is that this film will upset you and it is therefore effective at doing exactly what it wants to do. I have always considered this an "X" rated movie although I would not consider it pornographic in the traditional sense. But it is a very disturbing film and I do not think I would want my kids to see it until after they graduate college (if ever). Anyone renting this film for cheap thrills is in for a shock.

As I now understand it, this 1978 film was originally released as "Day of the Woman," but that rather innocuous title was replaced by the well known "I Spit on Your Grave," although the film was also screened as "I Hate Your Guts" and "The Rape and Revenge of Jennifer Hill." All of this is interesting since it seems the producers were trying to pass off this film with both higher and lover levels of pretention. The cult status here is more for the shock value than any cheap artistic pretentions, that is for sure.