I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE
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Cast: Sarah Butler, Jess Branson Rating: R18+ for Graphic Violence and High Impact Sexual Violence Tagline: Day of the Woman. Retail Release: March 16, 2011 Special Features: * Audio Commentary * Deleted Scenes * Featurette * Radio Spot |
Plot Synopsis, Review
A young writer heads into a remote town where she booked a cabin for the weekend to focus on her writing. Meanwhile, a bunch of local hicks decide to play a little game of rape with her.
This movie was marketed as being "better than the original"... hardly. It may be gorier and modernised, but the film is nowhere near as shocking these days as the original was in the 70s. It's extremely gorey, and the death scenes are very exciting for a gore lover, and the rape scene is definately a gut-wrencher, but I found this film to be a little boring at times, and it had major pacing problems, especially at the start. The flick opens up well, setting up the main character so the audience feels for her, but I think the flick delved too much into the lives of her rapist, trying to almost make you feel sympathetic for them when she got her revenge. The film was extremely predictable as anyone logicial would presume from the plot.
The film is a remake of the 70s film that shocked the world (and was originally banned in Australia), and this modernised take has scenes similar, but not exactly the same which is refreshing. All too often these days remakes use many exact scenes which argues the point that why are you doing a remake if you're using the same exact scenes?.
The acting was good. Sarah Butler plays the victim Sarah exceptionally, with her transformation from typical young woman to victim to murderess very well recieved and believable to me.
Overall I Spit On Your Grave is NOT better than the original, but it does have some great acting and horrible death scenes that horror hounds will lap up. My rating is 3/5.
This movie was marketed as being "better than the original"... hardly. It may be gorier and modernised, but the film is nowhere near as shocking these days as the original was in the 70s. It's extremely gorey, and the death scenes are very exciting for a gore lover, and the rape scene is definately a gut-wrencher, but I found this film to be a little boring at times, and it had major pacing problems, especially at the start. The flick opens up well, setting up the main character so the audience feels for her, but I think the flick delved too much into the lives of her rapist, trying to almost make you feel sympathetic for them when she got her revenge. The film was extremely predictable as anyone logicial would presume from the plot.
The film is a remake of the 70s film that shocked the world (and was originally banned in Australia), and this modernised take has scenes similar, but not exactly the same which is refreshing. All too often these days remakes use many exact scenes which argues the point that why are you doing a remake if you're using the same exact scenes?.
The acting was good. Sarah Butler plays the victim Sarah exceptionally, with her transformation from typical young woman to victim to murderess very well recieved and believable to me.
Overall I Spit On Your Grave is NOT better than the original, but it does have some great acting and horrible death scenes that horror hounds will lap up. My rating is 3/5.