Young writer Jennifer Mills (Sarah Butler) retires to a mountain cabin to relax and work is her second novel. Mountain cabins are Great Places to Spook yourself out, with Any little noise as Easily Explained as being a critter as a Boogeyman. But Boogeyman is what Jennifer gets, in the form of four local men, one of Whom Jennifer unknowingly emasculated at the gas station is her way into town. And thus Begins the stalking, raping and revenge, in That Order; more detail Would either be a spoiler or Redundant, depending on your Reasons for watching. [Twitch]
The Killings:
Each killing is as protracted, humiliating, ingenious, Gory, and down right as Poetic Any I've seen, and I've seen it all. We find ourselves in the position of the Righteous torturer, only without the Geneva Conventions or a shred of doubt about the malefactors' guilt. Yes, one of her rapists is a simpleminded innocent WHO was pushed to do the deed by his mates and his Wayward, a 25-year-old virgin hormones, and they has spent the next month staring into the river, wracked by guilt. But Would his elimination from this earth be a great loss?
As for the others, It's Only Make Them Right to plead with her once as she pleaded with Them. Especially I like the way she handles the big guy with the video camera. She lashes him to a tree, sticks fishhooks through his eyelids open Thurs Hold Them, Makes him and watch his home movie of her ordeal. Then she guts a fish, the intestines have flings him, and watches the Crows settle in for "some snacking. Those birds do love a tasty eyeball. [Vulture]
Girl Power:
The only thing lifting Zarchi's film Above Lewis' tacky, if Amusing, work is a thread of female empowerment that was Nearly unheard of at the time. No white knight ever shows up to rescue or Aid Jennifer; Plans and she executes her revenge alone. Might one argue That showing her rape is de facto exploitative; But there's no question That it's her justifiable revenge That provides all the pleasure. [Brand X]
Revenge is Best Served Cold
Plus the film Reaches a Point at Which the woman has Received so much Suffering That NO AMOUNT of crazy-Painful Revenge Would not be sufficient ... Which MEANS the last thirty minutes of I Spit In Your Grave is little more than just a seoul less Cacophony of random screaming, Pleading, and Suffering. And while the Gory Special Effects are Rather Impressive in Their Own Right, they're being misused in the service of an ugly little RETREAD that's more than just content Thurs follow along in the Footsteps of a grindhouse flick that's Probably better left forgotten. [Fearnet]
The Characters and Suspense:
By the time the second struggle is midway through his 10 minutes or so of writhing in pain, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE loses cathartica Even the charge of seeing Grotesque Violence meted out against the WHO Characters deserve it. Because there's nothing else going on, no suspense, since we know the story Requires That Each of the miscreants is fated to die horribly, and no character-based tension, since we know there's no Possibility of rescue or redemption. The movie is, as Roger Ebert once wrote of the original, simply "a Filmed Record of Perverted behavior." A well-Filmed and well-acted record, To Be Sure To the Point Where Both the rapes and the revenge are as excruciating to watch as intended. But, as I've Written before, true horror is about the Conflict Between Light and Darkness and the Light goes out of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE by the end of the first reel. [Fangoria]...
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