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Camille Keaton, grand-niece of Buster and star of the thriller Cosa Avete Fatto a Solange?, appears here as Jenny, an aspiring novelist who rents a cabin in the Connecticut woods. Three rednecks at a ... read more read more...local gas station and a retarded delivery boy seem quite friendly at first, and many viewers wonder just where director Meir Zarchi is going with the story. Then he drops them 200,000 feet right into the center of Hell for the longest, nastiest, and most brutal gang-rape in motion-picture history. Zarchi takes his time with this scene, not for the sake of titillation, but to make the audience feel the absolute horror of Jenny's plight. She is humiliated, sodomized over a rock, and brutally beaten in the middle of the woods. Then she crawls home, naked and bruised, only to get a repeat performance with her new novel shredded, her stomach kicked, and a bottle rammed violently inside her. The experience leaves Jenny shell-shocked, a cipher completely detached from reality. She hangs the delivery boy from a tree, gorily castrates the ringleader in a bathtub, and dispatches the other two rapists with an axe and an outboard motor. Eron Tabor, Richard Pace, Anthony Nicholls, and Gunter Kleeman co-star. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

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Directed by: Meir Zarchi

Release Date: November 3, 1978

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  • FilmFanatik
    February 23, 2012
    FilmFanatik
    Here's a film that I've been wanting to see for years. I had heard about how graphic it was, but I have to say I'm a little disappointed. Too much build-up I suppose, or maybe just high expectations. I Spit on Your Grave would make a good double feature along with Deliverance. Th... read moreere's rape and nudity abound in this movie, so if you can't handle things of that nature, I'd suggest passing this one up. This poor lady is raped and beaten seven ways from Sunday and then returns to exact revenge against her assailants (whom amazingly left her alive). My favorite bit is the guy getting a handjob in the bathroom and when he has an orgasm she cuts his penis off... and he doesn't even notice. That must have been one hell of an orgasm. I don't care who you are. If you're in the middle of coming and somebody cuts your manhood off, you're going to notice, and it's going to hurt. She then proceeds to lock him in the bathroom and wait for him to bleed to death. The best death by far, if not incredibly unrealistic. As you can tell, this isn't a terrific film by any means, but it's a bit of a curiosity that most people with a stomach for this sort of thing might want to seek out. The film was remade a couple of years and from what I understand, much of the nudity and violence was cut back. I wonder how much intensity it adds to the scenes. Hmm, maybe we'll see one day.
  • ajv2688
    October 8, 2011
    ajv2688
    Boring. Not bad, just overrated. It wasn't nearly as violent as I thought it would be. I've seen other, more disturbing, more explicit movies than this from the 70s. This movie felt dry. The actors were average, and the story was too. Overall, it's just okay.
  • deano
    March 20, 2011
    deano
    This classic one is the most notorious pictures ever made during the seventies. I watched this on DVD while it allowed to release in my home country during banned for 17 years by the Australian Classification Board in 1987. It's true! This story is familiar to The Last House ... read moreon the Left and proved by the likes of Irreversible, films tackling rape in a shocking and disgusting way are more readily accepted, and even gain a strong reaction from many critics. It's one of the exploitation films.
    There's a genuine film under all the gore and fact that our protagonist spends nearly 80% of the film completely naked. However writer Jennifer Hills' (Camille Keaton) emotions are as exposed as her body, her transformation from normality, to victim, through recovery and finally as executioner.
  • TheDudeLebowski65
    February 9, 2011
    TheDudeLebowski65
    Considering that I Spit On Your Grave has been banned, condemned and villified by almost every mainstream film critic, it was obvious that I would want to check it out. Critics have said this was a more intense version of The Last House On The Left. I somehow disagree. I thought ... read moreboth films were both equally disturbing. The Strength of the film lies in it's raw and graphic rape scene. The film doesn't shy away from being soft, and it plunges the viewer right in the middle of the savagery displayed on film. Would I go as far as to call this film smut? NO I wouldn't because I believe that considering everything that we've seen since the release of this film, they're are far worst things than this film. I wouldn't call this smut, but I would call it more of a prime example of unflinching exploitation cinema. I Spit On your Grave is not a Horror film in the traditional sense, but it is a horror film due to the fact that it showcases the darkest realms of human emotion. As far as Exploitation films are concerned, I Spit On Your Grave is one of the most depraved films that I have ever seen. But is it the most disturbing film ever? No, I personally thought that Cannibal Holocaust was the most extreme and disturbing film that I have ever seen due to the fact that they kill real animals on screen. But in I Spit On Your Grave, The rape scenes though extreme in nature are staged. As a whole, the film leaves a lot for improvement, and feels like a cheaper Last House On The Left. What makes the film watchable is the kills that victim Jennifer uses to carry out her revenge against those who savagely raped her. Definitely not a film for the faint of heart. I Spit On Your Grave is the prime example of the best that Exploitation Horror has to offer. A flawed film, but one that has gotten people talking for decades since it's release.
  • mjgildea
    February 6, 2011
    mjgildea
    I Spit on Your Grave is downright unwatchable for the second act, which in its entirety is a disturbing and extended rape scene where its only purpose is to show Camille Keaton naked. It's length seemed pointless in groundbreaking ways and seriously took away from the straightfor... read moreward revenge plot. Then we get to the third act where Keaton gets her vengeance in what seems like a soft-core porn kind of way. Her killing of those who raped her is graphic, gory, creative and downright brilliant. The last act nearly makes up for sitting through a nearly 20-minute rape scene but this one isn't for everyone. I watched it over two nights and I think the break helped me get through it. Definitely not a date movie. And a second watch a few years later didn't do much to change my opinion either.
  • animegirlaya
    November 18, 2010
    animegirlaya
    I spit on your grave is nothing but a shameful and disgusting movie I saw the remake only a few days ago and gave it the same rating a 0%. Like I said it's shameful, disgusting, stupid nothing but your classic rape and revenge film that involves a women going to get back at the m... read moreen that raped and slowly and painfully torture her. To me it's not worthy of being a cult classic. And yet it easily goes as one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

    The film follows Jennifer, a writer who is working on a new novel and needs to get out of the city to finish it. She rents a riverside cabin in upstate New York to work on her novel, attracting the attention of a number of rowdy male locals. They catch Jennifer one day and strip her naked for the village idiot (Matthew) and rape her. Jennifer is later attacked and raped a further two times by the four degenerates, and her novel is also destroyed. But Jennifer recovers, and in her now-twisted, psychotic state, she begins to seek revenge on the men.

    0% for plot to me it was stupid and very predictable.

    5% for acting its only good from our lead

    0% for special effects like the remake I skipped throw the torture scenes and gruesome acts of violence only because I am not interested.

    0% for characters just your classic she got raped and she is going to kill them.

    0% for everything else.

    Don't watch it the movie is not worth your time.

    Keiko's score 2-100
  • matertenebraum
    October 21, 2010
    matertenebraum
    I Spit on Your Grave is a film that will never be accepted as a serious piece of film-making. This is thanks in part to the gratuitous rape and murder scenes, which don't exactly hold back the shocks; and it's also due to the time in which it was made. These days, as proved by th... read moree likes of 'Irreversible', films tackling rape in a shocking and disgusting way are more readily accepted, and even gain a strong reaction from many critics. This film was unfortunately (albeit for good reason) caught up in the 'video nasty debate' in the early eighties, and as such it's reputation has been diminished to such an extent that the likes of Roger Ebert have labelled it 'the worst film ever made' (even though The Blair Witch Project is the worst film ever made) and it's reaction in general tends to be of the bad variety. For some reason, we have found ourselves in a world where it's more than acceptable to give praise to 'A class' rape themed dramas such as Irreversible, but woe betide thee who labels this as a good film. Well, woe betides me then.

    For a 'video nasty', I Spit on Your Grave has surprisingly good production values. While the acting often lets it down, the cinematography and even the script are more than decent and this helps the film in it's bid to get the praise it deserves. The story, which follows a New York writer who moves to a backwater part of the USA to work on her new novel, shortly before being horribly raped and beaten, is just a plot device for the more important elements of the plot. The main theme on display seems to be a comment on the male sexual ego and the way that women can have power over them. The film plays out like a revenge thriller, with the protagonist getting her own back on the men who raped her. This disrupts the main argument against this film; namely, that it's misogynistic, as much of the violence in the movie is actually directed against men. Of course, the rape scenes are the main crux of the film; but most of the gore comes later. Don't get me wrong, this is hardly an uplifting feminist drama; but it's not the worst film ever made either. Content caution though; it gets a bit extreme. A certain scene in a bathroom takes the prize for being one of the sickest sequences ever to grace the silver screen.

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  • phubbs1
    September 25, 2010
    phubbs1
    One of the original video nasties which had everyone up in arms and I really can't see why its so tame but I guess back in the day things were different. Still hard to see the fuss really, I guess the rape scene is the main sticky point but the whole thing is kinda dull really an... read mored you never actually see anything bad apart from the odd splash of bushy pubic hair haha the shots of the guys grunting and going crazy as they have their 'fun' is prettystupid looking really.
    Its a cool little plot idea just to have a woman seek revenge on a bunch a guys but does lean towards just being an excuse for some icky murder scenes which I'm sure the new update will be much worse. Personally I liked where she hung the nerdy guy and he orgasms while she does it or so she says later on haha. Keaton has a cute face but not much else which was a disappointment hehe whilst the bad guys don't really seem all that bad, not as bad as the guys in 'Deliverance' which were really disturbing! these guys actually looked normal and came across as alright in an odd way, they just didn't put any kind of fear into me, should they have?

    Its a nasty plot but I don't see much nasty in the actual film, obviously its way outta date but its still basic and just boring to be honest, the film cover is much more nasty and evil looking than the actual content, something that happened allot with horror/exploitation films back in the 70's/80's.
  • ythelastman89
    May 13, 2010
    ythelastman89
    Without the completely overdone rape scenes, this movie would be absolutely nothing. It essentially has zero story, it just centers around a woman getting rape and getting a brief revenge. Nothing else happens really, it's overlong and just pointless in many respects. However, th... read moree rape scenes are so well done and graphic that it makes the movie necessary to watch. The ending is pretty fun too, seeing all that carnage in a river is sort of beautiful.
  • SirPant
    May 7, 2010
    SirPant
    I love exploitation films and I love the Video Nasties but this notorious little film is uninventive, badly made and not piratically entertaining. Praised by feminists? Pull the other one!

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Critic Reviews

February 12, 2011
Bullz-Eye.com

Where the original really comes crashing down into a heap of garbage, though, is in the revenge angle. Full Review

R. L. Shaffer
February 5, 2011
R. L. Shaffer, IGN DVD

Gruesome and incredibly exploitative. However, for better or for worse, I Spit on Your Grave shows us the raw, shocking reality of rape, in all its bloody viciousness. Full Review

Anton Bitel
January 11, 2011
Anton Bitel, Eye for Film

in the dualistic contours of the rape-revenge subgenre, Zarchi finds a way to position his characters and viewers alike as both aggressors and victims. The results are neither comfortable nor pretty, ... Full Review

Tim Brayton
June 28, 2010
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

A precise and damning indictment of male sexuality, perhaps the most stridently anti-masculine film ever made by a male filmmaker. Full Review

Fernando F. Croce
February 13, 2010
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

Purposefully unwatchable Full Review

Rob Gonsalves
September 24, 2007
Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

The movie does wield crude and considerable power. Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.
July 10, 2007
Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed

Still an effective and shocking bit of revenge cinema... Full Review

Steve Crum
September 10, 2006
Steve Crum, Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

Salivating gore with classic title.

Pablo Villaca
May 2, 2006
Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

A montagem peca pela falta de ritmo e as mortes são patéticas, mas os dois primeiros atos do filme chocam pela intensidade com que retratam a violência sofrida pela personagem de Keaton, que, aliás, o...

Nick Schager
October 10, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

Simply another crudely made, explicitly violent '70s-era exploitation flick. Full Review

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