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I Spit on Your Grave (Day of the Woman)

I Spit on Your Grave (Day of the Woman) (1977)

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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 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.

Nov 11, 1998

Anchor Bay Entertainment

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All Critics (31) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (16) | DVD (26)

This is a film without a shred of artistic distinction. It lacks even simple craftsmanship. There is no possible motive for exhibiting it, other than the totally cynical hope that it might make money.

September 20, 2012 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Ghostly, wrenching, and defiling, I Spit on Your Grave comes out of the past coated in textured mud and blood, returning in a rapturous Blu-ray edition.

February 16, 2011 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

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

February 12, 2011 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com
Bullz-Eye.com

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.

February 5, 2011 Full Review Source: IGN DVD
IGN DVD

It's a hard watch.

January 27, 2011 Full Review Source: Horror.com
Horror.com

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, but they are certainly confronting.

January 11, 2011 Full Review Source: Eye for Film
Eye for Film

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

June 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Antagony & Ecstasy

Purposefully unwatchable

February 13, 2010 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

The movie does wield crude and considerable power.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

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

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Cinema Crazed

Salivating gore with classic title.

September 10, 2006
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

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, oferece uma performance visceral.

May 2, 2006
Cinema em Cena

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

October 10, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness
Lessons of Darkness

This is one exploitation horror movie that lives up to its classic title.

September 26, 2005
ColeSmithey.com

Anyone seriously interested in the social impact of film should see this.

May 8, 2004 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

A classic in stupid and revolting filmmaking.

November 4, 2003 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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Audience Reviews for I Spit on Your Grave (Day of the Woman)

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. There'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.
February 22, 2012
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Tim Salmons

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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.
October 8, 2011
ajv2688

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    1. Johnny: God bless your hands.
    – Submitted by Jimmy G (7 months ago)
    1. Jennifer: Suck it, bitch.
    – Submitted by Ruben J (11 months ago)
    1. Johnny: If I ever see you again I'm gonna bust your ass!
    – Submitted by Baurushan J (14 months ago)
    1. Johnny: Where did you stab her?
    2. Matthew: Here where you told me to.
    – Submitted by Baurushan J (14 months ago)

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