Cast: Sarah Butler, Jennifer Landon, Doug McKeon, Garbriel Hogan, Harley Jane Kozak, Michelle Hurd. It was in a weird way, perfect brutality caught on film. I Spit on Your Grave 2 is the perfect example of a sequel that not only doesn't need to exist but is wholly vicious and cruel.
Halloween Movie Fest 2020). Feminists hailed The Accused, partly because the story served to debunk a number of pernicious rape myths. This is just revenge. More to the point, what was it? Much like the scenes of rape, I don't think the murders are glorified or meant to be cheered at in any way. Having apparently done some good deeds in a previous life, this reviewer possesses sufficiently good karma to have avoided seeing any of them until now. So, the question at hand is if I Spit on Your Grave is a piece of exploitation trash, or an important film about…. The picture is clean and black levels come in at just about perfect. After the 101 minutes passed, the dozen or so teenagers in the darkened living room sat speechless. "After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he's actually stranded on Earth…65 million years ago.
Jennifer Hills (Sarah Butler), a survivor of sexual assault and abuse, is trying to put her life back together. The camera is directly facing the bloodied, beaten Jennifer as she crawls closer and closer to the screen. Extremely graphic because, as the theme ran its predictable course from victimhood to vengeance, the sex-violence meter got cranked up to awfully brutal, crude and explicit levels. I watched them back to back. I Spit on Your Grave is in cinemas from 21 January. Back in 1978, Day of the Woman pushed the then-popular vigilante theme to graphic and exploitative extremes.
Now living in another city under the name Angela, she's got a new job where she rudely fends off the overtures of a friendly co-worker, and she attends a support group for sexual abuse victims. "Rape is not entertainment, " we chanted. Her revenge is incredibly satisfying to watch, although it does rely entirely on some very poor choices from her "victims". Attempted Rape: The local sheriff tries to force himself on one of the girls, but another manages to steal his shotgun and drive him off. Director of photography: Richard J. Vialet. "I Spit On Your Grave" is definitely a movie that I will be popping into the DVD player again sometime in the future. The trial was televised and the victim's identity became known, resulting in her being vilified by almost the entire town. At Mondo Cinema you will find reviews and opinions on all your favorite grindhouse flicks. It gives the feeling of paranoia not knowing who or what is out there in the forest, and later hopelessness in knowing that the lead character Jennifer is in total isolation from the rest of the world during the horrible situation she's put in. It's not a [campy] horror movie... it's a HORRIBLE movie about this chick that gets raped 4x then she kills the dudes who did it. It was shot with a low budget and doesn't have any polish or overly ambitious shots. It does not rely on the law of the land, but on a woman being pushed too far and deciding enough is enough. And the whole time you're thinking.
Seemingly normal, functioning, well balanced people, sitting themselves down to watch old movies. The four men rape Jennifer. 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. DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd. If rape remains as easy to get away with as it is at present, films in which women get even through the legal system will become as unrealistic as ISOYG. 8. are not shown in this preview. A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead. One of which includes rubbing rat poop into open wounds in order to encourage infection. And in more than just one way. EVEN THOUGH PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS MOVIE*. All hail the second coming. Yes, Sony's high-concept/mid-budget action-horror movie arrived in theaters on the very same day as Scream VI, the latter film topping the domestic box office charts with a $44. Since its release, the film has been universally condemned for its depictions of rape, torture and violence. 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.
And Monroe has opted to make that way the Saw way. In 1983 a woman was gang-raped on a pool table in New Bedford, Massachusetts, while onlookers cheered. It is nothing if not an exploitation movie. Report this Document. One of the finest exploitation films in history.
Costume designer: Anninka Velie. On November 5, 1975, in Sitgreave National Forest in Arizona, blue-collar logger Travis Walton disappeared without a trace. The ways in which she extracts her revenge draw similarities to the killings of Jigsaw, from the Saw films. Roger Ebert apparently laid awake at night hating it, stating it's the most vile reprehensible things he had ever seen. Classification: 18A.
I thought it was visually particularly beautiful, other than that pretty ugly, as it should be. But to transgress and simply chalk it up as fantasy or a dream pushes nothing. Special features include: - Audio Commentary. We'll keep you posted as more numbers come in. It has a nice glossy look to it and the superb detail is apparent throughout.
Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive. Sarah Butler offers a genuine performance that makes it easy for us to connect with her, she's also likeable and we can easily root for her when she goes out to get her revenge. Re-assembling the pieces of a life ripped apart. Jennifer (Camille Keaton), a writer developing her first novel, travels to a remote house next to a river to work. That every male with whom she comes into contact is thoroughly sexist and despicable provides at least some justification for her actions. Leaving her for dead, Jennifer comes back and takes revenge on those who wronged her. Starring Sarah Butler.
Furthermore, Hills' friend, Marla, the instigator of their vengeance streak, is dispatched off-screen by her abusive boyfriend. But lets look at this movie and figure it out. It's a movie that deals with a horrifying subject and handles it without pulling any punches or shying away from the material. It's a shame that one of my most memorable cinematic experiences comes from a film so utterly devoid of redeeming qualities that it's a stand-in for romantic aspirations deferred. While this would seem right at home in an exploitation film, what works against it is the framing device of Hills working with her therapist. There was a time, in the early 80s, when I seemed to be on a picket every week. Central to those is the documentary Growing Up With I Spit, created by director Meir Zarchi's son, Terry Zarchi, himself having a small part in the film as one of the rapist's son. It was like you were right there in the movie yourself.
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