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Summary: Ughh...
Review: This movie is sick! Just the title of this flick gives me shivers. The plot: Woman goes on vacation. Gets repeatedly raped by mountain men for about 40 minutes. Then gets revenge in the last 40 minutes. I can't emphasize enough how utterly terrible this movie is. If you like movies with bad plots, bad acting and stupid characters this is your movie.
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Summary: NOT the "worst movie of all time"
Review: Upon its initial release, "I Spit on Your Grave" was made out to be an utterly worthless, pro-rape film by overly PC critics who feared their reputation would be tarnished if they admitted fanfare for this disturbing and competently made movie.But that's not to say it's not without its problems. Writer-director Meir Zarchi, obviously under the influence of Wes Craven's gritty "Last House on the Left," constructed a very simple plot where a beautiful woman is isolated only to be beaten and raped by a gang of local hoods. After they leave her for dead, she recuperates and takes sadistic revenge against her attackers. The rape scenes are too choreographed to be considered realistic, and this is complemented by camera angles that render the incidents voyeuristic. The heroine has no discernible personality aside from her looks, and is a model of perfection that is violated unfairly. The way the rapists are seduced and buy the fact that this woman could be attracted to them after the fact is just preposterous. And the movie ends on a note of absolute nihilism. But I think Zarchi wanted to make an example of men, and how they allow their privates to do their thinking for them. So the way the rapists' libidoes lead them to their doom is a bit symbolic. The act of revenge that takes place in the third act is mean-spirited, unpleasant, but honest. After all, revenge is a hollow act that isn't intended to bring about a feeling of pleasure. "I Spit on Your Grave" is a decent film. I give it an extra star because of the recent Anchor Bay remaster that has an excellent picture and sound.
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Summary: Someone tell me....
Review: WHY is this considered a classic? The script was imbecelic, the revenge scenes were amateurish and unbelievable and the rape scenes, which were supposedly what makes this film so "horryfying," while somewhat disturbing, weren't nearly enough to generate the rep this film has. Her reaction was almost laughable. Last House and even Death Wish were far, far better films.
Don't fall for the hype. save your bucks. Rent it.
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Summary: Nice and simple
Review: I dig this movie. I remember seeing it for the first time back around 1979. It is perhaps the oldest movie I ever vividly remember seeing. Watching it nowadays is not as shocking as the movie was when I was pre-teen, wathing it on HBO after hours. The story is pretty simple. A girl gets abused by 3 dudes and she goes back and kills them all. Just the way it should be in real life. Even to this day, some of the scenes would be considered graphic so don't let the kids watch it....the way I did I guess. Definately worth the time to watch it. Even to this day I found myself pinned to the screen watching it.
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Summary: There should be more to it....
Review: I was intrigued by the synopsis of "I Spit on Your Grave", because I love movies about women getting revenge, like "Kill Bill", and "Sleepaway Camp 2". I had been contemplating on weather renting this or not, beucase it's soppousedly soppoused to be so shocking and graphic, that you can't bare to watch it. Well, I was able to watch the whole thing with my eyes open. And it's only sort of shocking. The death scenes are no gorier or violent than those in the "Friday the 13th" movies. Now, even tho I love films with women getting revenge, I did not love this. I only sort of liked it. The problem is is that it just didn't have enough to it. It felt like there was something missing. And it's shown in such a monotonous slide-show way. Like, okay, lets see her get raped. Now she cleans herself. Now she kills this guy. Now this guy. Now this guy. Now this guy. It makes the film feel so much shorter, and uncomplete. Now, Camille Keaton; I real liked her acting in this movie. She says everything in a really cool way, but at the same time somehow makes everything she says funny, mostly when she's talking to the guys before she kills them. Overall, I don't reccomend this unless you have to see every horror film on the shelves.
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Summary: Woman's Day
Review: A pretty young novelist rents a secluded cabin in the woods in order to have a nice, quiet place in which to hunker down and start writing the great American novel. But instead of peace and serenity, she ends up as the victim of brutal rape and torture at the hands of a band of semi-literate rednecks. She somehow survives the ordeal, though, and after regaining her physical and emotional bearing, she finds the inner strength to return to the scene of the crime and confront her attackers.... Thusly winds the plot of 1978's infamous and controversial revenge flick I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (originally titled DAY OF THE WOMAN). In the uncut version of this soupçon-budget flick--which is the version offered on the DVD from Elite--the gang-rape and torture sequence consumes an inordinate amount of screen time. Though this sequence has sometimes been compared to the sodomy scene in Boorman's DELIVERANCE (1972), it is more often criticized as being merely gratuitous and subliminally misogynistic. Unlike Boorman, who only slyly and skillfully SUGGESTS the sodomy and torture in his famous film, the director of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, Meir Zarchi, is unflinchingly graphic in his depiction of rape. He doesn't want to do anything that might candy-coat this bitter pill, because he wants the audience to see just how abhorring such personal violation actually is. Lauded by loyal fans as a simple film that makes an important and abstruse point, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE is admittedly neither complex nor deep. Yes, the plotting is rudimentary and subtext is virtually nonexistent. Yes, the film lacks a musical score. And, yeah, a few of the characters are trite, shallow, and one-dimensional, and some of the dialogue is hokey. To certain aesthete filmgoers, this raw simplicity may come across as banal, sophomoric cinema. But aesthetics is only a secondary concern with this film. The primary purpose is to declare a particular message or two and to declare them as in-your-face as possible. The film DOES indeed have a couple of staunch points to make regarding the repugnance of rape and misogyny, an individual's rights regarding their body, and the justification for exacting eye-for-an-eye revenge. And it proclaims these points in a graphically straightforward manner that, if nothing else, certainly grabs the audience's attention. The Elite DVD version of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE offers a surprisingly clear, clean anamorphic transfer of the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The sound, while not as impressive as the digital video, is available in Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS Surround Sound 5.1, or the original mono. The disc's extras include a feature commentary by the director, as well as a hilarious commentary track by cult-film aficionado and critic Joe Bob Briggs, the stage persona of actor/writer John Bloom. (Joe Bob's articulate, knowledgeable, and extremely humorous commentary is itself worth the disc's purchase price.) Also included are the theatrical trailers--some of which promote the film under its original title--various interviews, and press-coverage items that include the merciless repudiation of the film by some famous critics. For a film that has generated such negative publicity over the years, this is quite meritorious bonus material. True, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE is an exploitative splatter film with a plot that is often dismissed by critics as a tale of one city girl and handful of sadistic hayseeds traipsing through a series of grisly scenes. It's definitely not for the squeamish, but anybody who views the film is certain to walk away with a firm pathos for rape victims and a strong disdain for rapists. And since that is what the filmmakers were aiming for, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE must be regarded as a highly successful film.
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Summary: Cheesy B Rated Horror Flick w/Nude Chick
Review: Cheesy B rated horror flick for the hairy armpit feminazis crowd.
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Summary: One is GREAT the other SUCKS, really really SUCKS BAD
Review: I will not write a 10 page review like all these other people.
I spit on your grave is a cult classic very disturbing, and the revenge the women seeks after being raped repeatably is great. Im not saying the rape is great but the revenge is. Its an aweseome movie for any hard core collector of cult/horror or just wahtever.
And Dont mess with my sister is an absolute horrible movie one of the top 3 worst ever to be made has no point to it.
So if you want I spit on your grave you can find it individually. Dont waste your money on this boxset. I tried to sell Dont mess with my sister to blockbuster and 2 other stores the movie didnt even come up when they scanned it. Now I am stuck with that piece opf garbage. At the time I couldnt find I spit on your grave and when I saw the set i brought it just for that.
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Summary: 13 years old
Review: I first saw this movie when i was 13 years old, my mom thought it would be the "one movie that could scare me" imagine her suprise when she watched it the next day and saw all the nudity. HAHAhAh it was funny then and more so now. The rape scenes are realistic to say the least, the plot is good, and the castration in the tub......at 13 it hurt me, now at 25 it still hurts to watch. This is a must for PPL who like good old fashion GORE and some fake snuff filmesk scenes.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I bought this movie thinking "exploitation" meant showing lots of nakedness, with some erotic moments. There is some nudity here, but most of the time the woman in question is covered in blood, bruises, and dirt: not what I would call erotic.
Because the plot is given away on the cover of the movie jacket, there's not much in the way of suspense. And the movie itself moves like molasses in winter: very slowly.
The acting is really bad. One fellow is supposed to be mentally challenged. This is indicated by him wearing a sailor's hat sideways. His attempts to act retarded are retarded.
This movie is in the same category with "women in prison" movies, where semi-clad women being brutalized is also the theme. If that sounds interesting, you might give this one a try. But if you're looking for movies with dark sensuality, this isn't it. Try Straw Dogs or Flesh+Blood instead.
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