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I Spit on Your Grave (1978-uncensored), directed by Meir Zarchi

12/30/2015

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Young woman writer (Camille Keaton) spending the summer in a backwoods house is beaten and raped by four local men, prompting her to bloody revenge.  Infamous "horror" film, thanks mostly to Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert who excoriated it on their television show Sneak Previews.  And not without reason:  this, in spite of Zarchi's claims to the contrary, is a movie with no point of view other than the celebration of torture for its own sake.  Any other result is hard to imagine, given the distorted lens through which Zarchi views this material:  the film, after all, was originally titled Day of the Woman (and that is the title Zarchi himself prefers), as if it is to a woman's credit that she exacts retribution on her rapists not by appealing to the law, not even by shooting them with her gun, but by first suckering them into consensual sex.  The poster for the re-release under the present title claims that "no jury...would ever convict her" -- but only if she were judged hopelessly insane.  Day of the woman, indeed.  With loads of violence, a great deal of full (female) body nudity, and the as-yet-unmarketed gimmick Slime-o-Vision.  Remade in 2010.

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