Maybe it's the colorization or the amped up style.maybe it's just the fact that this updated version seems to focus more on the rape and less on the revenge. I feel guilty that I ever watched the original film and even guiltier that I have carried within me all these year a certain appreciation for its "revenge" message of alleged female empowerment. As is seemingly the case for nearly every other film to come out of Hollywood these days, we have another remake on our hands and this time it's a colorized, stylized updating of I Spit On Your Grave directed by regular SyFy Network contributor Steven Monroe and featuring a cast of mostly unknowns destined to stay that way. However, there's always been this dark corner of my mind that carried a sort of perverted fondness for the film's unabashed revenge fantasy come to life.įlash forward to 2010. To be honest, while I could never have denied the extreme nature of the film there was something about watching it that fueled my own revenge desires. However, by the time I did see the film in my young adult years I'd recently acknowledged being a survivor of violent childhood sexual abuse myself. In the UK we see Andy and Johnny.Ĥ6:22 Matthew kneels in front of Jennifer, lowering it to her breast but finding himself unable to stab her.Ĥ7:58 Jennifer in the bathtub, crying and washing the filth off her body.ĩ5:49 The UK shows the text "A Meir Zarchi Film" after the credits.I remember the first time I saw the original I Spit On Your Grave, a 1978 B-movie revenge flick in which a woman barely survives being viciously raped by a group of backwoods thugs and then goes after them one-by-one in extreme and relentless revenge.įortunately, I didn't see the film upon its release in 1978 as I'd have been youngster and likely left even more traumatized than my childhood already left me.
Johnny says that this is enough.Ĥ1:53 Stanley gets up and kicks her again. Stanley pours booze on Jennifers face and Matthew gets up.Ĥ1:47 Stan kneels over Jennifer, screaming at her, hitting her and ordering her to perform oral sex on him.
Several shots have been repeated in the UK version.Ĥ0:01 Matthew lies on top of Jennifer and yells at his friends that he can't come when they are watching. His friends are cheering.ģ9:26 Matthew abuses Jennifer longer. Several shots have been repeated in the UK version.ģ8:39 Matthew looks at Jennifer lying on the floor. Several shots have been repeated in the UK version.ģ4:24 Jennifer slowly gets up, crawls away and leans on a tree.ģ6:10 Jennifer stumbles towards her house and breaks down.ģ7:43 Stanley attacks Jennifer, hitting her. While the others hold her down Andy penetrates her from behind. Several shots have been repeated in the UK version.Ģ7:08 As Jennifer crawls away Johnny prompts Matthew to rape her but he doesn't want to.ģ1:59 Jennifers abuse on the rock is much longer. The UK shows Matthew, Johnny and Matthew again.Ģ6:55 Jennifer crawls away. Several shots have been repeated in the UK version.Ģ6:38 A shot from farther away in the Uncut, Matthew in the UK.Ģ6:47 Jennifer gets up. Several shots have been repeated in the UK version.Ģ6:15 Johnny on top of Jennifer. Several shots have been repeated in the UK version.Ģ5:36 Johnny on top of Jennifer, raping her.Ģ5:38 More raping. Several shots have been repeated in the UK version.Ģ4:24 Beginning of a shot of Johnny throwing her to the ground.Ģ4:25 Three men are carrying Jennifer away, placing her on the ground. She curses and lashes out at him but Johnny throws her into the grass.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the scheduled Hollywood remake and how the BBFC will approach it.Ġ0:00 The ASTRO logo is only seen on the German DVD.Ģ4:00 Johnny rips Jennifers top and she falls to the ground. The chances for an uncut release in Great Britain are still slim to none. To maintain a running time over 90 minutes numerous scenes and shots are repeated two or three times which is a rather odd thing to behold in he movie. The scenes in which Jennifer takes revenge on her tormentors are left intact but nearly all rape scenes have been heavily cut. What the publisher had done to the movie was beyond comparison. The BBFC demanded cuts to be made after which the movie could be released. In Great Britain (after being pulled from the market in the 80ies) it was presented to the BBFC in 2001. The vicious Rape & Revenge Movie "I spit on your Grave" was released uncut in most countries (with appropriate ratings). Comparison between the cut British DVD from Screen Entertainment (BBFC 18) and the uncut German DVD from CMV Laservision (not rated)
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