Other Titles • Day of the Woman • I Spit on Your Grave • I Hate Your Guts (1978) • The Rape and Revenge of Jennifer Hill (1978) • Blood Angel (1978) • Ich spuck' auf dein Grab (1978)
Synopses for I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
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Jenny (Camille Keaton, granddaughter of Buster Keaton), a New Yorker who goes to a secluded country retreat to finish work on her novel, is, one day, assaulted, raped and left for dead by four men. But she survives to take revenge. She seduces each of her rapists separately and personally performs their painful executions. This ultraviolent cult film was banned in the UK & Germany and is notorious for many reasons. See it for yourself to find out why.
(21 votes)
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Writer-director Meir Zarchi's controversial story of rape and revenge has lost none of its ability to shock viewers since it first gained notoriety in the late '70s. Camille Keaton (grand-niece of Buster Keaton and, later, Zarchi's wife) stars as a young woman who is terrorized and then brutally assaulted by four men while on vacation. After slowly pulling herself together, she methodically tracks down and butchers each of the perpetrators. Zarchi's film has been consistently accused of celebrating violence against women, and while the rape scenes are graphic, they also lack the voyeuristic qualities that earmark other similarly plotted exploitation films. If anything, Zarchi is guilty of awkward scripting; the dialogue is leaden, and Keaton's transformation from victim to avenger is too swift. But to label him a pornographer is wrong, and while the film is challenging--perhaps more than most audiences can bear--its depiction of the psychology of violence is undeniably powerful. --Paul Gaita
DVD features Elite Entertainment's Millennium Edition DVD presents I Spit on Your Grave in anamorphic widescreen and with optional audio tracks (Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital 5.1, and DTS 5.1, the last of which best highlights the film's lonely soundscape). Fans will undoubtedly want to hear Meir Zarchi's commentary track, given that he's remained mostly silent about the film since its release. Zarchi provides a great deal of background information (including the events that inspired the film) and technical detail, as well as a bit of self-aggrandizement about its place in cinema history. His accent is difficult to understand at times, and less devoted viewers may enjoy cult critic Joe Bob Briggs's more lighthearted commentary as an alternative. The extras are rounded out by a wealth of international promotional art and trailers, as well as a collection of reviews, including Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel's damning write-ups, which helped to fan the flames of controversy surrounding the film. --Paul Gaita
(20 votes)
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Jennifer has just chopped, broken and burned four men beyond recognition...but no jury in America would ever convict her!!
A young woman travels to the country looking for some solitude. What she finds is a nightmare! After being brutally attacked by a group of "country boys", she manages to survive the attack. What follows is a series of acts of revenge that you will never forget. Banned in the UK and Germany, this is the full uncut version of this cult classic.
(20 votes)
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