"I Spit On Your Grave" is definitely a movie that I will be popping into the DVD player again sometime in the future. The most egregious, bloodcurdling, date, ruining film a la 1978's I Spit on Your Grave at least had a sense that what you saw was meant to provoke and offend, even if it was in horrible taste. Sure, we in the media may try to make it matter, as many will condemn righteously and a few will praise faintly and others will compare the levels of explicitness, then and now, in a vain wish to read the barometer of social change.
In third place on the charts, you'll find 65. So it's not hard to spot the tactics in the original. Some of the best are mired in it. The original I Spit on Your Grave was a film that made a lot of people angry, and justifiably so due to its graphic depiction of some very taboo subject matter. After a young writer is brutally gang-raped and left for dead by four men, she systematically hunts them down one by one to exact a terrible vengeance. If I were gang-raped, aware as I am of the near impossibility of winning justice through the courts, I would not be sitting here fantasising about being saved by crusading lawyers and nice men. Some of us had tears in our eyes. I have a few problems with this. In a way ISOYG was a revenge-rape-revenge story, perhaps serving as an unconscious warning to women about getting too uppity. The Motion Picture Association of America has gone to court to prevent the producers of the movie ''I Spit on Your Grave'' from using its R rating. Aside from the documentary and commentary, there's nothing else worth checking out here.
Without any sort of context, we grabbed this film from the local video store, ran over to the nearest friend's house, and popped it in. As a whole though, I like that Jennifer uses sex as a tool to kill the villains just as they had used it to violate and have power over her. I was recently watching the documentary Growing up with I Spit on Your Grave, and was reminded of my feelings on the 1978 film that the doc explores. There isn't a sense of stakes in this film. He really is a veteran, on a quest to murder anybody who stands between him and his late father's property. Everything you want to read. It was a shock-schlock-cult thing, designed certainly not to entertain but to upset and appall. It goes on for as long as it does to fully show how horrible the act is and to put the viewer in the shoes of a victim going through such abuse. The thing about a horror movie is you usually want to root for someone. Document Information. Kim Kardashian Doja Cat Iggy Azalea Anya Taylor-Joy Jamie Lee Curtis Natalie Portman Henry Cavill Millie Bobby Brown Tom Hiddleston Keanu Reeves. So do the endless scenes of Angela attempting to work out her not inconsiderable issues with her therapist, clearly the least effective shrink ever. I made this thread because I've never really discussed it or have seen it talked about much from others, so I hope to get some of Era's thoughts below. Part of HOOPT🎃BER 5.
Foster's character Sarah is a party animal who dirty dances with a man in a bar and is raped by him and two others over a pinball machine in full view of their cheering mates. Even some of the extras seem analogues for the show's characters. ) But you see little detail of any of it, thanks to the low budget. Everything that the writer/director Meir Zarchi sought out to do with the film was accomplished perfectly. It was in a weird way, perfect brutality caught on film. © © All Rights Reserved. I won't spoil it here, but it also has one of the single greatest one-liners ever committed to film. It has the cast talking about what it was like making the movie, about the original film, about their time spent on the set etc.
Rabid Cop: The sheriff has become so obsessed with solving the unsolved murders 25 years ago that he's willing to go anything to keep people off the property, including Attempted Rape. All the while, Hills sits down on the couch with her own therapist, narrating the film's events. The assault and rape take up a large amount of the runtime. I always knew a beer bottle looked a bit phallic but had never seen it deployed as this. Views like that are exactly the reason why violence should be shown like this -- lacking emotion and thrill.
NFL NBA Megan Anderson Atlanta Hawks Los Angeles Lakers Boston Celtics Arsenal F. C. Philadelphia 76ers Premier League UFC. Back in 1978, Day of the Woman pushed the then-popular vigilante theme to graphic and exploitative extremes.