Its consensus reads, "I Spit on Your Grave is as aggressively exploitative as its title suggests, although as a crude rejoinder to misogyny, it packs a certain amount of undeniable power. Sarah Butler, CineTel Films acquired rights to remake I Spit on Your Grave, which had a Halloween 2010 worldwide theatrical release. Clover further argues that the film's sympathies are entirely with Jennifer, that the male audience is meant to identify with her and not with the attackers, and that the point of the film is a masochistic identification with pain used to justify the bloody catharsis of revenge. It doesn't touch me one way or the other whatsoever. 101 min [20] Film critic Mark Kermode has opined that it is "deeply, deeply problematic at the very best of times" and is not as interesting as earlier exploitation films such as The Last House on the Left. She leaves the bathroom, locks the door, and listens to classical music as Johnny screams, bleeding to death. Gadget View. Release Date: Oct 08, 2010 Rated: Pervasive strong sadistic brutal violence, rape and torture, nudity and language; Runtime: 1 hr. When Johnny mentions that Matthew has been reported missing, Jennifer states that she killed him; as he nears his orgasm, she takes the knife Matthew brought with him and severs Johnny's genitals. Steven R. Monroe directed, with newcomer Sarah Butler starring as Jennifer. [23] The British feminist Julie Bindel, who was involved in pickets outside cinemas in Leeds when the film was released, has said that she was wrong about the film and that it is a feminist film. [9], The film was followed by an unofficial sequel, Savage Vengeance (the title card on the film was misspelled as Savage Vengance) (1993) in which Camille Keaton (under the alias of Vickie Kehl for unknown reasons) reprises the role of Jennifer. Director: "The men are so grossly unattractive and the rapes so harrowing, long-drawn-out and starkly presented it is hard to imagine most male spectators identifying with the perpetrators, especially as the film's narrative structure and mise-en-scene force the spectator to view the action from Keaton's point of view. I Spit on Your Grave. Horror, Thriller. ", "Meir Zarchi Just Finished a Sequel to His Own 'I Spit On Your Grave'! A remake of the controversial 1979 cult classic, the big screen movie “I Spit on Your Grave” retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book.But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson. Critic Luke Y. Thompson of The New Times stated that "defenders of the film have argued that it is actually pro-woman, due to the fact that the female lead wins in the end, which is sort of like saying that cockfights are pro-rooster because there is always one left standing". [5] The film remains highly controversial to this day, even being considered to be one of the worst films ever made. Emotionally destroyed, she abandons her novel and instead finds herself choreographing a horrific plan of brutal and violent revenge. Steven R. Monroe During its wider release, the film was branded a "video nasty" in the United Kingdom, and was a target of censorship by film commissioning bodies. Since 1998, some provinces (such as Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Quebec) have released the film, with a rating that reflects its content. 27,148 One day, the men attack Jennifer. "[25], The film caused a lot of controversy and backlash for its graphic violence, particularly the rape scene, with feminists protesting the movie and people accusing the movie of glorifying rape. It's really the public that counts, the 20 million who have seen the film around the globe."[12]. I Spit on Your Grave collection (1978-2015) Menu. Canada initially banned the film, but in the 1990s decided to allow its individual provinces to decide whether to permit its release. He takes the groceries and a knife. 16:23. | Naturally beautiful, Katie has just settled into New York where she, like many other young women, is trying to make it as a model. A condition of this re-release was that they could change the title to anything they wished. Critic David Keyes named it the worst film of the 1980s. [16] Both Ebert and fellow critic Gene Siskel blasted the movie on their television program Sneak Previews. Encyclopedia of Horror notes that the film attracted much debate for and against, frequently involving people who clearly had not actually seen the film. Clover notes that she and others like her "appreciate, however grudgingly, the way in which [the movie's] brutal simplicity exposes a mainspring of popular culture". I Spit on Your Grave News. Gabriel Hogan, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 2 out of 5 stars. [10] He spent four months writing the screenplay, the bulk of which was written at his usual Subway route to his office in Times Square and back home where his wife would then typewrite the handwritten pages in the evening. These horrible events are shown with an absolute minimum of dialogue, which is so poorly recorded that it often cannot be heard. However, no scenes from I Spit on Your Grave were used for the flashbacks. A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. (Ed. After suffering through unspeakable horror at the hands of three men, a young model seeks a violent revenge on the people who attacked her. Stanley moves towards the boat and grabs hold of the motor to climb aboard, begging Jennifer not to kill him. They quickly decided that they had made the wrong decision — the officer, who Zarchi described as "not fit to wear the uniform", delayed taking her to the hospital and instead insisted that she follow formalities such as giving her full name (and the spelling), even though her jaw had been broken and she could hardly speak. I Spit on Your Grave 2 subtitles for free. | Gross: Horror, Thriller. A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on … For some, it is this controversy which has led to it being deemed a cult classic. Andy goes ashore with an ax. Movies.com > I Spit on Your Grave news. If you told me that the public does not like it and the critics like it, then there is something very, very bad about that. Movies similar to I Spit on Your Grave (2010): The Seasoning House, I Spit on Your Grave, The Last House on the Left, The Girl Next Door, No One Lives, The Strangers, Eden Lake, While She Was Out, Law Abiding Citizen, Straw Dogs. Clover wrote that in her opinion, the film owes a debt to Deliverance. The censored American version of the film was released in Australia in 1982 with an R 18+ rating. Tell us what you think about this feature. She repeats an order he made to her during the sexual assaults: "Suck it, bitch!" DIRECTOR. It was released on 8 February 2011 in the United States from Starz/Anchor Bay Entertainment. She passes out; Johnny realizes that she is a witness to their crimes and orders Matthew to go and murder her. In New Zealand, the uncut version of the film (102 minutes) was classified in 1984 as R20 with the descriptive note, "Contains graphic violence, content may disturb". Eron Tabor, The book continues that the scenes of revenge were "grotesquely misread by some critics", as Jennifer only "pretends to have enjoyed the rape so as to lure the men to their destruction", and that in these scenes the film is critiquing "familiar male arguments about women 'bringing it on themselves'" as "simply sexist, self-excusing rhetoric and are quite clearly presented as such". In the following days, a traumatized Jennifer pieces both herself and her manuscript back together. I Spit on Your Grave 2010. The film tells the story of Jennifer Hills, a fiction writer based in New York City who exacts revenge on each of her tormentors after four men gang rape and leave her for dead. A woman who is brutally raped and assaulted, survives and takes the law into her own hands by seeking revenge against her attackers, in this remake of the cult classic. Matthew finally rapes her after drinking alcohol. I Spit On Your Grave is a 1978 American rape and revenge horror film written, directed and edited by Meir Zarchi. Day of the Woman (original title) R | 1h 41min | Horror, Thriller | 22 November 1978 (USA) 2:54 | Trailer. 41 min. Film, Horror. The arrival of the attractive and independent young woman attracts the attention of Johnny Stillman, the gas station manager, and Stanley Woods and Andy Chirensky, two unemployed men. Doug McKeon, By 1982, I Spit on Your Grave had been released on video six times in the United States due to high demand. | While, yes, shocked millions of people with its bold and brash plot and sequences of disturbing events, still is not an enjoyable experience in any means. [17] In a later episode, Siskel and Ebert chose the film as the worst film of 1980, with Ebert famously saying "the people who made this film should really be ashamed of themselves, and so should the people who booked it and the people who went to see it--it's really an inhuman, sick film". Zarchi was unable to find a distributor, so he distributed the film himself. 92 min The inspiration for I Spit on Your Grave came from an encounter writer-director Meir Zarchi had in 1974 with a young woman who was raped and beaten by two men at a park in New York City. Willemin, Paul. I Spit on Your Grave 3 (169) IMDb 5.2 1h 31min 2015 18+ The savage revenge series resumes with even more depravity! Jennifer has her groceries delivered by Matthew Duncan, who is mildly mentally disabled. [10] Zarchi set up an interview for Keaton and found her to be an "experienced actress" as well as "beautiful and photogenic". [30], In the same commentary, Zarchi denied that the film was exploitative and that the violent nature of the film was necessary to tell the story. However, since films on video did not need censor's certificates at the time, it was released on home video, where it was branded a "video nasty" by the press. Braunstein Meir Zarchi 76,116 The film stayed in the Billboard Video Cassette Top Forty for 14 consecutive weeks and won the number one best-selling video cassette award above more popular movies like Fiddler on the Roof, The Godfather: Part II and Grease. I Spit on Your Grave is a 2010 American rape and revenge horror film and a remake of the controversial 1978 cult film I Spit on Your Grave (originally titled Day of the Woman). Stars: M eir Zarchi’s 1978 guttersniper I Spit on Your Grave remains a fascinating muddle, a gruesomely entwined rape and revenge fantasy that was famously panned by Roger Ebert upon its re-release (when its distributor ditched Zarchi’s original—and preferred—title, Day of the Woman), both reviled and co-opted by feminists.Did Ebert miss the boat? [20] This led to the film's removal from a major theatre. Full Review. "[12], I Spit on Your Grave received universally negative reviews from critics. Jennifer is still haunted by the memory of being gang raped and almost killed years ago. I Spit on Your Grave (originally titled Day of the Woman) is a 1978 American rape and revenge horror film written, directed and edited by Meir Zarchi. Admittedly, I Spit on Your Grave is a gruesome, deplorable little exploitation picture that, on the surface, seems to enjoy it's rape sequences just as much, if not more, than the vengeance-filled finale. She starts the motor, disemboweling him with the propeller, and speeds away. argues that, when understood within the context in which director Zarchi was inspired to make it, the movie may be equally appropriate to analyze as "feminist wish-fulfillment" and a vehicle of personal expression reacting to violence against women. "[14] He mentioned in his review that a female member of the audience (one of many people who randomly talked aloud) had "feminist solidarity for the movie's heroine". 2 VIDEOS | 64 IMAGES. Stars: In 1987, the film survived an appeal to ban it. Zarchi insisted that the officer take her to the hospital and he eventually complied. Soon afterward, the woman's father wrote both Zarchi and his friend a letter of thanks for helping his daughter. A second sequel, I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine, arrived in 2015. Short story writer Jennifer Hills lives in Manhattan and rents an isolated cottage in Kent, Connecticut near the Housatonic River in the Litchfield County countryside to write her first novel. At the cabin, Jennifer entices him to have sex with her under a tree. Controversial, horrific, I Spit On Your Grave is one of the few films that is actually better than the original and challenges you to look within yourself. At the gas station, Jennifer seductively directs Johnny to enter her car. [34] It was also released alongside the remake in a 'Limited Collector's Edition' on 7 February 2011 in the U.K.[35] It was again submitted for U.K. DVD in 2020, and was passed with lesser cuts, this time totaling 1 min. She goes to church and asks for forgiveness for what she plans to do. On DVD: Now | On Blu-ray: Now. [citation needed], CineTel Films acquired rights to remake I Spit on Your Grave, which had a Halloween 2010 worldwide theatrical release. | Yavor Baharov, Stars: It was at this time the film was retitled I Spit on Your Grave. | A direct sequel, I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu, was released in 2019 with Zarchi and Keaton both returning. Steven R. Monroe. Following the events of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (2010), Jennifer (scream queen Sarah Butler) returns to work for a Crisis Support Group. He wrote, "I wanted to ask if she'd been appalled by the movie's hour of rape scenes." | I Spit on Your Grave 2010 / I Spit on Your Grave 2 [Blu-ray] 4.6 out of 5 stars 38. Watch It. [18] Siskel would join Ebert in calling the film one of the worst ever made.[19]. [31] Steven R. Monroe directed, with newcomer Sarah Butler starring as Jennifer. 99. The film barely went for 65 minutes, and received extremely negative reviews from critics and fans alike. 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