I Spit On Your Grave 2011 - A DVD Review

I went in to this movie expecting it would be horrible, I won't lie. I heard that it was rape porn, followed by revenge killing porn. I heard it was repugnant, base, and not worth seeing due to it's fails on all fronts.


And then I would be remiss if I didn't mention my idol, Roger Ebert, gave it a scathing, zero stars review.


Well deserved from his point of view, I'm sure. Let's face it; I base what I see on him 75% of the time. He's a genius.


That said, I finally saw this film and was intrigued by it's making: the process. It felt very cut-and-paste. Like the filmmakers read a book called :How To Make A Modern Horror Film'. Here we go:


1: Cast a group of goodlooking actors, except for the parts played by sherrifs or retards, make them less goodlooking, but still camera ready.


2: Make sure the gorgeous victim somehow loses access to her cell phone. Whether it's by being out of range or dropping it in a toilet... oops... spoiler alert!


3: She should be totally comfortable in her strange surroundings immediately, and when she hears a strange noise it's no big deal the first three times.


4: The fourth time a strange noise is heard the victim should realize they might be in trouble, but not really.


5: The victim is in trouble.





I'm sorry, we've seen this a thousand times lately, especially with the remakes. They lose all sense of the original and kid themselves into being able to do it better. Well guess what? They can't!



Well, let me give you the low-down.
Sarah is a writer moving to a cabin in the middle of nowhere so she can write another novel all alone, with no distractions. Unfortunately on the way she offends some gas jockeys at the small town gas bar. No big deal, right?!
Well, I ain't spoilin' nothin' if I tell you they don't take kindly to uptight city bitches! What did we expect! Seriously!
Without ruining the 'story' eventually they rape her. What come next is a rapists nightmare!!! (Unless you worked on any of the Saw movies.)
She exacts her revenge in many and gruesome ways. Some even implausible, but, whatever, it's a death.
I won't see this movie again. Not because it was challenging or controversial, only because it wasn't good.

Too bad, because I liked the lead girl Sarah Butler. She was good. Hopefully she'll get more work and this will just be a very small feather in her acting cap. Maybe they'll say, "Well, you were the only good thing about that movie."





Here's the deets:


I Spit On Your Grave 2011


DVD Available


See it if you've run out of options and want to dissect bad horror.