Following their collaboration, Zarchi married star Camille Keaton in 1979 and they were divorced three years later. To assume that this was the true intention perhaps overestimates the vision of writer/director Meir Zarchi, who had barely worked in movies before this and almost never again afterwards. Still, this is hardly a poster child for women's lib. Naturally, there is no way not to sympathize with the victim and cheer on her probably excessive and certainly illegal payback methods.
The heroine spends at least half the film's runtime naked and being helplessly humiliated by sleazeballs of the lowest order. I don't think anyone would take such a suggestion too seriously, regardless of the attached title. I doubt that and can find no believable record to support it, even when looking under the movie's first title, Day of the Woman, intended to establish it as some kind of feminist-friendly women's empowerment picture. IMDb presently claims the movie was first screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978. Of course, this doesn't qualify as mainstream cinema, certainly not in this unrated 101-minute director's cut that this week resurfaced on DVD and premiered on Blu-ray from Anchor Bay Entertainment alongside an unlikely remake's home video debut.Įxpectedly, the original I Spit on Your Grave has an interesting release history. I can't think of much mainstream cinema that goes to the lengths to appall that this 1978 film does. But then what isn't more gratifying and watchable than that graphic, gruesome first half? Non-scripted violence. So long as you're not a rapist, you will find the final fifty minutes of I Spit on Your Grave tremendously more gratifying and watchable than the fifty which precede it. Nietzsche famously stated that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger and Jennifer Hills becomes proof of that as she pre-emptively asks God for forgiveness and proceeds to get even with each of her violators in grandiose ways. Jennifer is not really killed, as she is supposed to be by Matthew (Richard Pace), the comparably moral, mentally impaired grocery delivery boy of the group. It is too easy to call it shocking, but it is certainly designed to be so and it would have to be in order for the film's vengeful second half to elicit your sympathy and support. Talk about an unpleasant first half! Chances are you've never seen the crime of rape dramatized in such a way. With this more painful second act consummated, Jennifer returns home, only to have her phone call for help quickly cut off by the same gang of four, who use force to enable the final two to have their way with her. Soon, these knuckleheads and the two other local men she has encountered team up to rape her.īruised, bloodied, degraded, and dirtied, she leaves this horrifying scene, shown in unsettling detail, only to face another round led by a different one of the men. Not long after settling into her rented home, Jennifer is disturbed by a couple of immature gas station employees, who go joyriding on a motor boat past where she is peacefully starting her book. In an entirely unexpected way, she's right. Jennifer Hills (Camille Keaton) hopes the quiet, unspecified small town just a few hours outside of Manhattan will stimulate her creative juices. Things begin harmlessly enough in I Spit on Your Grave, as a young short story writer from New York City drives out to the country for a summer she intends to spend penning her first novel. Blu-ray / Buy I Spit on Your Grave (2010): DVD.Theatrical Release: Novem/ Running Time: 101 Minutes / Rating: Not Rated (Theatrical Cut: R)Ĭast: Camille Keaton (Jennifer Hills), Eron Tabor (Johnny), Richard Pace (Matthew Lucas), Anthony Nichols (Stanley), Gunter Kleemann (Andy), Alexis Magnotti (Johnny's Wife), Tammy Zarchi (Johnny's Daughter), Terry Zarchi (Johnny's Son), Traci Ferrante (Waitress), Bill Tasgal (Porter), Isac Agami (Butcher)īuy I Spit on Your Grave (1978) from : DVD
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