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- 2010
- Unrated
- Anchor Bay Films
- 1 h 48 m
- 2010
- Unrated
- Anchor Bay Films
- 1 h 48 m
Summary A remake of the controversial 1979 cult classic, "I Spit on Your Grave" retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals led who set out one nig...
Directed By: Steven R. Monroe
Written By: Adam Rockoff, Meir Zarchi
- 2010
- Unrated
- Anchor Bay Films
- 1 h 48 m
- 2010
- Unrated
- Anchor Bay Films
- 1 h 48 m
I Spit on Your Grave
27
6.1
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Summary A remake of the controversial 1979 cult classic, "I Spit on Your Grave" retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals led who set out one nig...
Directed By: Steven R. Monroe
Written By: Adam Rockoff, Meir Zarchi
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
27
7% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
29% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
64% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
27
7% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
29% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
64% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Exploitation pure and simple. But it's artistically redeeming exploitation. If you can handle it, see it.
Its straight-ahead rape, humiliation and ingenious revenge competently executed but not aestheticized, the essential grunginess never overly slicked up.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 122 User Ratings
6.1
50% Positive
61 Ratings
61 Ratings
32% Mixed
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
18% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 122 User Ratings
6.1
50% Positive
61 Ratings
61 Ratings
32% Mixed
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
18% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
A little tedious in the setting up and most of the characters are unbelievable, but by the time the **** scenario is in full swing you get bucket loads of moralistic angst and a true emotional 'trip'. The plot falls flat in the second half of the film and is blatantly in-credible. This is worth a watch just for the gut-wrenching **** scene which is so charged with diabolical evil that it will have you wanting to turn it off.
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One of the best horrors of 2010. Brilliant movie will have to at edge of your seats. Only thing the **** scene was way too long. Other than that awesome movie.
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What it doesn't have is the first movie's primal understanding of patriarchal violence and feminist rage, as both moral horror and exploitation gold. As a result, this is a much easier movie to watch.
Neither boring enough to qualify as pornography nor vital enough to generate a controversy.
Not surprisingly, the remake gussies up the grindhouse roughness of the first film, which makes it relatively more palatable-yet still vapid and repulsive-while also, in a perverse way, selling it out.
When every injury is repaid with interest, this self-destroying work has nowhere to go but to the credits. Such symmetry is a dismal, barbarian sort of perfection.
This despicable remake of the despicable 1978 film "I Spit on Your Grave" adds yet another offense: a phony moral equivalency.
For people like me who like their movies as brutal, shameless, sadistic, and as shocking as possible, this is certainly worth a watch, but it unfortunately pulls its punches in places you really wish it wouldn't. The **** scene is lamentably censored, with very little nudity or violence. I give it props for at least offering a new type of sadism between the rapists, each with their own perversions, and the whole "horse show" thing was entertaining. But when Matthew is forced to **** Jennifer, the camera shows us almost nothing, basically only implying that it's happening. The scene is desperate for some good acting between Jennifer's terror and confusion along with Matthew's own, but we don't get that. We don't get a good shot of their faces as this is all happening, which is kind of central to the whole point. It's better than most **** scenes are constructed in film, but it's definitely pulling its punches, and it couldn't be more obvious and detrimental to the piece. The sheriff is a nice addition to the mix, and becomes the central character in the entire ordeal. His violent **** of Jennifer is particularly special (and her creative revenge is appropriate). The movie is paced pretty well; I didn't think the **** lasted too long, as others have been saying. I mean, it's mostly in real-time, and in the real world, some people like her are kept for days at a time being sadistically **** and abused, so thirty minutes isn't a big deal. The revenge sequences are creative and appropriately messy, and to my delight, were deliberately constructed for each rapist as for how they acted during the ****. Jennifer gets quite creative in her relentless hunt to take down each of them as painfully as possible. Unfortunately, while the murders themselves are good, she isn't a very good murderer. She lacks any kind of less-than-sane berserker rage that would naturally fuel her. She doesn't seem normal, or terrifying. Her acts are somewhat mechanical, done without much emotion, which is a shame, because her revenge fantasies are fueled by her lust for vengeance. She just looks too normal, too clean, to be what she is in this film. One of her choices is questionable involving the sheriff's family near the end. In all fairness, she had every right to murder them. She probably should have for their own sakes, with the knowledge that the sheriff is a sadistic rapist. What are they supposed to do afterward in a town like that? Either way, they're not getting a happy ending. Anyway, while some of the violence and **** is tragically censored for all the shock-value fans out there, and the realism gets a few points off for Jennifer's character not acting like a truly vengeful killer, it's nice to see someone try something like this and make it look pretty good. The scene when the **** is over and Jennifer is walking nude in a dissociated malaise is, thankfully, how a real **** victim would commonly act from the nightmarish shock, confusion, and pain of being ****. That scene in particular is pretty killer. Worth a watch, for sure.
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I Spit on Your Grave s pretty cool horror. The main character gets involved with a couple of guys, and that's the whole movie. The scenes are really delicious and it's great to watch. There is one part that is predictable and the story is not masterful and overall it is such an above-average film for me. If you like rougher scenes, you should enjoy the film as much as I do, but if you prefer a real story, then I don't think this film is for you.
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This film is the remake of an older film from the Seventies, which fell into relative forgetfulness due to it's brutality, very graphic and raw. The new film is very faithful to it's predecessor and tells, in essence, the same story.
In the film, young writer Jennifer leaves the city and goes to the countryside, where her beauty stands out and attracts the unwanted attention **** of men who come together to arrest and sexually abuse her. Repeatedly ****, humiliated, beaten and wounded in her body and in her self-love, she is left to die by the group, which also belongs to the local sheriff, one of the most brutal rapists. Attempts to cover up the crime are evident, but nothing works: she survives and comes back to avenge herself, killing them all in a revenge that only a wounded woman would be able to do.
The film is quite tough and violent, but the degree of rawness and brutality is much lower than it's predecessor of the Seventies. The older film was much more difficult to see, has a greater and more shocking degree of violence and its cast spends a considerable part of the film undressed, which is why I considered this film highly inadvisable for adults who are more impressionable (of course, it's an unthinkable film for young people or children). More than ****, what shocks and disturbs us in this film is the way men who are perfectly inserted in that social environment and even has some prestigious positions - the sheriff's example - manage to be capable of those atrocities and have such awareness of their own impunity. Another thing that strikes us is the way she kills them, with refinements of cynicism and some pleasure, as we see in horror slasher films. The cast consists of a series of illustrious strangers. Still, I liked the work of Sarah Butler and Andrew Howard, both of whom are very committed to their characters.
Technically, it is a film that does not stand out nor has much to present. Not having a high budget, it used what it had. There is a lot of blood, and the makeup work has been done quite well. The film uses a reduced and discreet soundtrack, which lets the plot itself to shine. Cinematography does not stand out, either the sets and costumes.
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There is a lot to talk about here, so many things to discuss, so many mistakes, and lots of plot holes.
To start with, I got that Jennifer Hills (age is not mentioned) is somehow in her early twenties and is WRITER! Did she even finish college? I wasn't really convinced, I guess that an older actress would be better, and I am not relating to the remake because I didn't watch it, I am judging this as a movie with no connections. There is a scene where she spills Whisky on her LEGS, why would she start washing her cloths the scene after This doesn't make any sense. Why would she kiss a stranger? Full of Dumb Actions, and that makes us care less for these characters due to their stupid actions/decisions. The characters are flat, just to carry the plot on, just veins, no digging the past at all, or anything else to make us care more for the character, and if the remade film is like this, they should have development.
The whole movie is dull, although the **** scene is cruel shocking and disturbing, it is still dull and uninteresting, due to the flat characters that don't share feelings with the audience at all! Why? I don't want to spoil more, but there is some unexplainable things somewhere near the end (don't make any sense).
But I admit the third act is awesome, everything after the **** is pretty interesting, predictable but entertaining and shocking, it has that old school buzz to it, but it doesn't save it from getting negative response! The acting got better by the time. But on my own standards I won't recommend this to anyone, it is pretty sick, gross, disturbing and really shocking. No one wants to see anyone getting tortured especially seeing an almost innocent girl (she smokes weed) but still.
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