So with all the news floating around on this I Spit On Your Grave remake that is about to happen, or that is in the works right now. I decided to pick out the dvd release of the 1978 original movie directed by Meir Zarchi. This dvd has been laying around for like almost a year. And with most movies, it takes me some time and effort to watch it at the right moment. Whenever I feel the time is right to watch it. So clustered in bed and not feeling well. I thought I might be a good idea to digg up I Spit On Your Grave.
The story starts off with Jennifer who is an aspiring New York writer travelling for the summer up for a long vacation where she plans to write her new novel. It doesn't take long before some lowlife scumbags get attracted to her. And while she's enjoying her trip out in nature she gets kidnapped , helplessly on her boat. They drag her into the woods where her nightmare starts off by being violently raped in the woods.
It doesn't stop, and when she wanders around in the woods naked and beaten she gets followed and harrased multiple times. Violent and sickening, abused by a bunch of men who don't stop following her and punish her right up into her cabin where she is left for dead. The rape scenes are brutal, especially the on the rock. Where Jennifer screams it out in pain, when she getrs sodomized. It makes your stomach turn upside down. And I do had to gasp for some air in this scene.
After she's left for dead. Jennifer manages to heal her wounds and strength. She gets physically recovered and plans on taking revenge on each of the rapists by getting each of those rednecks back on their own game. She has no remorse and takes the right back into her own hands. She tricks them and seduces them before making them pay the ultimate price for her violation. Killing them one by one. Which makes this revenge movie take a slasher turn.
The most shocking revenge scene was definitely the bloodbath scene where Johnny played by Erin Tabor gets his dick chopped off and gets locked up in the bath room, finding himself helplessly crying out while he's bleeding to death. Even though he has a family and two kids, Jennifer goes downstairs and plays some record to cover up the horrible helpless screamings by Johnny. Definitely a bloody graphic scene in which Jennifer takes a bloody cold revenge. And each of the redneck scum gets his payback time. Violent.
I guess this movie definitely must have its shock effects around the end of the seventies in a time where feminism had its uprise. And this was one disturbing movie experience with a plain simple message. Rape is one of the most horrible experiences , most of us aren't enable to realize how horrible it is. All men in this movie reduce twomen to a plain object in which they can demonstrate their power for pure brutal lust and violence. And it happens everyday. Even though this movie is over 30 years old it still haven't lost it's shocking effect up to this day. All the way throughout the movie you feel with Jennifer, and somewhere the end you feel some kind of a relief when she has paved her life back on the map, probably scarred for life. But she took her revenge and each lowlife paid for it.
Not the kind of movie that makes you feel comfortable, but more the kind that keeps hanging in the back of your mind and the powerful yet shocking message it carries. Even though I saw this movie for the first time, it kind of had the same effect on me since I saw Eden Lake. It kept hanging in the back of my mind for days.
Down for a disturbing movie? This one will deliver.
I just wonder how a remake of this movie will turn out.
TRIVIA FACT:
The scar displayed on the left side of Jennifer (Camille Keaton)’s face in the post-trauma scenes is real, the result of an automobile accident in the actress’s youth. In these scenes, it was exaggerated by the make-up artist, and in the opening and closing scenes, it was hidden under a thin layer of foundation.
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