What we have feels now less like a rape and revenge film, as all the previous I Spit on Your Grave films were, than we do a vigilante film not unakin to Death Wish (1974) and, in particular, one of its sequels where the hero(ine) takes up arms and enacts ruthless justice against those who got away with it. In fact, it doesn’t even gets Sarah Butler undressed beyond her underwear anywhere throughout. It dispenses with the long and unpleasantly protracted scenes of the heroine being raped. And yet the very fact that every single one of them has been made by a man rather than a woman does make the intent seem a little dubious.Īll of that dissipates by the time of I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine. You could search far to find some other film that depicts the brutality and violation of rape with the rawness that these films do. On the other side of the coin, you do feel that they are films that do come with some effect and could not be said to be designed to titillate. However by the time of Vengeance is Mine, which is the second sequel to a remake, you cannot help but wonder if there might be something just a teensy little bit exploitative about making more films about rape because the first two made money. I happily commend the first film for its rawness and the remake and its sequel have both had some effect. The thing that makes it difficult is that the films sit so close to a line that becomes exploitation. Somehow sitting and applauding them for how effectively they shock us or merely commenting on their production values seems an inadequate response. The reaction that they almost always produce is a moral one. The I Spit on Your Grave films have been intended to brutalise an audience with the sustained degradation of their protagonists. Normally, you would applaud a film for how well it tells its story or when it comes to a horror film usually how well it manages to make you jump out of your seat. The I Spit on Your Grave films are difficult to know how to approach critically. Subsequently, Meir Zarchi and Camille Keaton returned with a sequel to the original with I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (2019), which is unrelated to any of these other films. This is another sequel to the remake where Sarah Butler returns and plays the same character a few years on from the 2010 film (although this does not bear any connection to the second film and comes from a different director). This led to a sequel from the same director with I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013) where Jemma Dalender underwent a similar brutalising. While not as full-on as its predecessor, it has a considerable brutality of its own. The first film half of the film depicts the extended rape of heroine Camille Keaton in raw and shocking detail, while the second half follows her as she takes a nasty revenge against the perpetrators.Īs part of the spate of horror remakes of the 2000s/10s, this was duly remade as I Spit on Your Grave (2010) with Sarah Butler in the role. Day of the Woman (1978), more commonly known under the re-release title I Spit on Your Grave, is one of the most savage films to emerge from 1970s genre cinema.
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