I Spit On Your Grave Movie Review (2010)

Generally speaking, I find that revenge films are some of my favorite cinema because it's so satisfying when the victim finally exacts their vengeance. The whole movie you're rooting for them and many times how they get their revenge is more savage than what was initially done to them. Such is the case with this remake of the 1978 exploitation film of the same name. This is a rape and revenge film that is very difficult to watch and if you've seen movies like The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes, you know what to expect, although it never gets any easier to watch. Interestingly enough, both of those films have been remade as well.

Jennifer (Sarah Butler) is a writer who is on a retreat in the woods and is brutally beaten, raped and tortured by local townsfolk who she had a run in with prior to reaching her cabin. While writing, the men come and assault her, but she is able to escape and run into woods where she bumps into two men hunting, one of whom is the sheriff. Unfortunately, this does not offer any reprieve for Jennifer as even the sheriff is in on it and takes her back to the cabin where the first of many sexual assaults occur. After they're finished, they follow her onto a bridge overlooking a creek where she jumps down and disappears. A search is conducted for her body, but she isn't found.

When it is made abundantly clear that Jennifer is still alive, her assialiants try to find her but instead meet their demise. One by one she eliminates them in some of the most creative and brutal ways possible including putting fish hooks through one's eyelids so he can't close them and then guts a fish and rubs it all over him so the crows come and eat his eyes out. And who can forget the sheriff being sexually assaulted up his ass with the barrel of a shotgun? There may or may not also be a scene where a penis is cut off with garden shears and shoved into a guy's mouth. Bon Appétit!

~TJ