06 October 2010

I Spit On Your Grave

Directed by: Steven R. Monroe
Written by: Stuart Morse
Full credits at IMDb

Last year’s outrages are already quaint. Back then, in The Last House on the Left remake, a revolting rape scene carried on several sickening and unnecessary seconds too long. But in this year’s I Spit on Your Grave remake—a cabin-in-the-woods horror movie in which the monsters are not supernatural but mere men—a similarly gratuitous rape scene continues across several settings, from the cabin to the woods to the cabin to the woods. The woman is beaten and raped and raped and raped and stripped and shot, and this is after she has already been weirdly humiliated at length: made to feign oral sex on a bottle neck and a gun barrel; to show her teeth; to whinny like the showhorse her attackers keep calling her. The ordeal lasts from night into morning, and takes up an entire act of the film.

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