I
spit on Your Grave (1978)
This
woman has just cut, chopped, broken and burned five men beyond
recognition... but no jury in America would ever convict her!
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE ... an act of revenge
Director
- Meir Zarchi
Writer - Meir Zarchi
Starring - Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace, Anthony
Nichols, Gunter Kleemann, Alexis Magnotti, Tammy Zarchi, Traci
Ferrante, Bill Tasgal, Isaac Agami, Ronit Haviv
Review by Noel Baily
The benchmark
for putrid film-making!
Known
pretty much world wide as I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, both titles
are misleading, although DAY OF THE WOMAN is marginally more
appropriate. REVENGE OF THE WOMAN might have been better or
even "LET'S SEE IF YOU LIKE IT?" At no stage does
she "spit" on anyone's grave...no-one gets as far
as a funeral!
Little
more than a home movie, no that is incorrect..it IS a home
movie! Camille Keaton is Jennifer Hill, a rather mousy little
thing minding her own business in a friend's retreat down
by the river. She is set upon by four scumbags and subjected
to the most disgusting and protracted rape which takes up
almost HALF the film's running time if you can believe it!
That alone earns it a place in moviedom's "Hall of Shame."
Beaten and left for dead, she recovers absurdly well and plots
her revenge. After a make-over and coming back to town looking
like Miss USA 1978, she makes-out with the ringleader who
fails to recognize her, until that is, she slices off his
penis in the bath. It's the high point of the movie as it
were! The other three are despatched so quickly and tamely,
(presumably her make-over cost so much, they had no budget
left to complete the film beyond that afternoon!) one is left
wondering simply, "Why did I rent this crap?"
Do not
watch this with a girlfriend or in fact with ANYONE! Better
still, don't watch it!
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