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I Spit on Your Grave (1978)

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Reviews Counted: 25

Fresh: 13

Rotten:12

Average Rating: 4.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Jenny (Camille Keaton, granddaughter of Buster Keaton), a New Yorker who goes to a secluded country retreat to finish work on her novel, is, one day, assaulted, raped and left for dead by four men.... Jenny (Camille Keaton, granddaughter of Buster Keaton), a New Yorker who goes to a secluded country retreat to finish work on her novel, is, one day, assaulted, raped and left for dead by four men. But she survives to take revenge. She seduces each of her rapists separately and personally performs their painful executions. This ultraviolent cult film was banned in the UK & Germany and is notorious for many reasons. See it for yourself to find out why. [More]

Starring: Camille Keaton, Richard Pace, Eron Tabor, Anthony Nichols

Starring: Camille Keaton, Richard Pace, Eron Tabor, Anthony Nichols, Gunter Kleeman

Director: Meir Zarchi

Director: Meir Zarchi
Producer: Meir Zarchi, Joseph Zbeda

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Nov 11, 1998

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Reviews for I Spit on Your Grave

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The movie does wield crude and considerable power.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
09/24/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

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

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
07/10/07
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Salivating gore with classic title.

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09/10/06
Steve Crum
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.

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05/02/06
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

No review available.

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12/09/05
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World

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

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment Comment
10/10/05
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

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

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09/26/05
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

No review available.

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08/10/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
N/R

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Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/08/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

A classic in stupid and revolting filmmaking.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
11/04/03
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

No review available.

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07/03/03
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

There is a successful motive at work in I Spit on Your Grave, though its methods of employing it are questionable. By more common standards it is morally reprehensible.

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
05/18/03
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

I spit on this garbage. Two kids with a camcorder in a garage could do better.

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04/11/03
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

While it delivers up the requisite amounts of violence and nudity to satisfy the requirements of the genre, it also has an edgy and decidedly anti-rape sentiment

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
04/05/03
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

Considering how many powerful people detested this movie, it's a testament to the film that it still even exists.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/30/03
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

...mostly dull and ridiculously over-the-top.

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02/24/03
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Defenders of the film have argued that it's actually pro-woman, due to the fact that the female lead wins in the end, which is sort of like saying that cockfights are pro-rooster because there's always one left standing.

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02/04/03
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

This brutal, explicit rape-revenge movie isn't for the faint of heart, but it's told with an eerie minimalism that marks it a grim, disturbing B-movie portrait of civilization’s abuse at the hands of savagery, and its subsequent, equally barbarous revenge

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01/20/03
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

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01/02/03
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

More boring than anything else

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12/04/02
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
 
 
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