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I've seen it twice now (both times at festivals). I think it's just about okay, although the original is absolutely foul; it achieves a far better balance between the rape and the revenge (in the original version the revenge sequences were almost perfunctory addons). I didn't notice the score at all.
http://streetrw.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-spit-on-your-grave.html
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Mar 3, 2011 - 11:57 PM
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quiller007
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A long, long, time ago...Joshua worked for a retailer that stocked *various* films. Many were B's and imports, and this was a film (the original) that was kept (regularly) within inventory.
I was half joking. I guess I'm still kinda surprised at the number of women
I've run across on various forums over the years, who actually like
these types of films. I don't know any personally. The women
I know (or have known) like action films, supernatural horror,
classic-style low-key murder mystery thrillers.
But graphic horror gore, rape, torture, etc....no. I'm a guy, and I
can't stomach stuff like I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. Hell, I'm a Charles
Bronson fan and I refuse to watch the DEATH WISH films. The first
one I can handle. But the rest..forget it! I don't like all those
"cannibal" and zombie movies either. Too yucky for my tastes.
Den
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Mar 4, 2011 - 1:37 AM
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Tall Guy
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Strange, but somehow this film (the original) really stuck with me over the years. I believe this film had a particular casteration scene in which the damsel in distress "lured" one of the "bad-guys" into her tub while taking a bath and slipped a butcher knife beneath the suds. The ensuing carnage was VERY disturbing (especially the first cut!).......Oh Hell, I don't know, it may have been another film, but I sure do remember that particular scene!!
No, it wasn't another film...
A pal of mine some decades ago owned a video store, and he wheeled out I Spit On Your Grave (and The Executioner) for a stag evening. Eye-openers, in those far-flung days. That bath scene has stayed with me, too, sort of like an "alternate porcelain-ware" version of people who won't have showers since watching Psycho.
Oddly, we don't have a bath in the house now, having replaced it with a large shower installation the other year. I don't really miss it, but I'm not sure I can blame an old "video nasty" for our bathroom design.
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Mar 4, 2011 - 1:52 AM
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Thor
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But graphic horror gore, rape, torture, etc....no. I'm a guy, and I
can't stomach stuff like I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. Hell, I'm a Charles
Bronson fan and I refuse to watch the DEATH WISH films. The first
one I can handle. But the rest..forget it! I don't like all those
"cannibal" and zombie movies either. Too yucky for my tastes.
Den
That's fine. To each their own. Personally, I love to get in touch with ALL aspects of my emotional life, not only conventional films with happy endings. I also like to challenge these emotional aspects and your whole moral orientation with regular intervals. That's the kind of experience that makes you grow as a humanbeing; i.e. not shielding" oneself from certain elements of life.
Besides, it's just film. Most of the time, reality can be much, much crueler (the Fritzl case in Austria, for example, which seems far more cruel than any screenwriter could come up with).
Gaspar Noë's IRREVERSIBLE is another example of this, as is Nagisa Oshima's IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES. Spectactors left while I watched both of these (especially the rape scene in the former), but I found it totally hypnotizing in all its controversy and gross-ness. Certainly makes you think about things.
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"hey you said rape twice"
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