I Spit on Your Grave has a really simple story. Jennifer Hill is working on a new novel and needs to get out of New York so she rents a cabin upstate and goes there to write. There she attracts the attention of four locals who one day rapes her. Some time after the incident she recovers and sets out to seek revenge on the men who raped her.
When it comes to I Spit on Your Grave there are a lot of differing opinions out there. Some claim it to be a underestimated flick that actually tells a brilliant story about revenge and is somewhat of a milestone when it comes to this type of cinema. Others claim it to be totally overrated and that it's quite boring and not that graphical at all.
I wouldn't call it brilliant and I can definitely see why some people would find it to be quite slow and boring. First off the movie's from 1978 and is not made for the MTV generation, so if you have a really short attention span then just forget about it.
But for people who does not need everything on screen to be fast-paced it's ok. I wouldn't call it slow either, sometimes it drags a little but not too much and never so it gets really annoying or anything like that.
One thing that might make it seem a bit slower and that is a really negative thing is that there's no music in the movie. Maybe they made it this way to create a certain mood or feeling but I think that some music in the background would've helped creating a better or more suiting mood for sure.
It's a simple story but it works and is well executed. The actual rape scenes are bad, not in the sense that they are poorly done but that they are horrible to watch but it doesn't even come close to the one in Irreversible which was just brutal and really painful to look at.
One thing though is that after she gets raped the first time and you think that's it, she later gets raped again and then a third time. It goes on for quite a while and even if the scenes are not super graphical, it's still horrible to watch since you know what's going on and might be hard for some people to sit through.
When it comes to the revenge part of the movie I'm actually a bit indecisive if it's good or not. The way she offs the guys one by one are pretty cool and well done, but it takes too long and is not brutal enough, considering what they done to her.
I guess it's brutal but again not graphical enough. But if you see what's going on and use some of your imagination it tends to get better, or worse depending on how you see it.
I Spit on Your Grave is not for everyone to see, as the rape scenes may be to hard for some and the overall movie being too slow for some. I would still recommend it though. It's a good old flick with a horrible theme.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Day of the Woman
MOVIE YEAR: 1978
DIRECTOR: Meir Zarchi
WRITING CREDITS: Meir Zarchi
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Camille Keaton, Richard Pace, Eron Tabor
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 100 min
RATING: 7/10
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