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1978 American rape and revenge horror motion-picture show by Meir Zarchi

I Spit On Your Grave
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Theatrical release poster

Directed by Meir Zarchi
Written by Meir Zarchi
Produced by Joseph Zbeda
Starring
  • Camille Keaton
  • Eron Tabor
  • Richard Pace
  • Anthony Nichols
Cinematography Yuri Haviv
Edited by Meir Zarchi

Production
company

Cinemagic Pictures

Distributed by The Jerry Gross Organization

Release date

  • November 22, 1978 (1978-eleven-22)

Running time

102 minutes[ane]
Country U.s.a.
Language English language
Upkeep $1.five meg[two]

I Spit on Your Grave (originally titled Day of the Woman ) is a 1978 American rape and revenge horror film written, directed and edited past Meir Zarchi. The moving-picture show tells the story of Jennifer Hills (Camille Keaton), a fiction writer based in New York Metropolis who exacts revenge on each of her tormentors after iv men gang rape and leave her for dead.

The film is noted for its controversial depiction of extreme graphic violence, particularly the lengthy depictions of gang rape, that take up 30 minutes of the film's runtime. During its wider release, it was branded a "video nasty" in the U.k., and was a target of censorship by film commissioning bodies.[iii] [four] Every bit such, moving-picture show critic Roger Ebert became one of the almost notable detractors of the picture show, calling it "a vile bag of garbage".[5] The film remains highly controversial to this 24-hour interval, fifty-fifty being considered to be 1 of the worst films always made. For some, it is this controversy which has led to information technology beingness deemed a cult classic.[6] Despite the controversy and negative reviews, the functioning of Camille Keaton was praised by critics. In 2010, the film was included in Time magazine's "Top 10 Ridiculously Fierce Movies".[7] [ undue weight? ]

The film spawned a 2010 remake, which has since spawned two sequels of its own: I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013), and I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine (2015). A straight sequel, I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu, was released in 2019 with Zarchi and Keaton both returning. In her memoir Inside Out, Demi Moore confirmed that she is the scantily clad woman on the flick'southward affiche, posing with her back turned.[8]

Plot [edit]

Brusque story writer Jennifer Hills lives in Manhattan and rents an isolated cottage in Kent, Connecticut nigh the Housatonic River in the Litchfield Canton countryside to write her get-go novel. The arrival of the attractive and contained young woman attracts the attention of Johnny Stillman, the gas station manager, and Stanley Woods and Andy Chirensky, two unemployed men. Jennifer has her groceries delivered past Matthew Duncan, who is mildly mentally disabled. Matthew is friends with the other three men and reports back to them near the beautiful woman he met, claiming that he saw her breasts.

Stanley and Andy start cruising past the cottage in their boat and prowl effectually the business firm at nighttime. One day, the men set on Jennifer. She realizes that they planned her abduction then Matthew can lose his virginity. She fights back, but the three men rip her bikini off and hold her. Matthew refuses to rape Jennifer out of respect and pity for her, so Johnny and Andy rape her instead. After she crawls dorsum to her house, they attack her over again. Matthew finally rapes her later on drinking booze. The other men ridicule her book and rip upwards the manuscript, and Stanley violently sexually assaults her. She passes out; Johnny realizes that she is a witness to their crimes and orders Matthew to go and murder her. Matthew cannot bring himself to stab her, and then he dabs the knife in her blood and so returns to the other men, claiming that he has killed her.

In the post-obit days, a traumatized Jennifer pieces both herself and her manuscript back together. She goes to church and asks for forgiveness for what she plans to practise. The men learn that Jennifer has survived and beat Matthew up for deceiving them. Jennifer calls in a grocery order, knowing that Matthew will deliver it. He takes the groceries and a knife. At the motel, Jennifer entices him to have sexual activity with her under a tree. She and then hangs him and drops his body into the lake.

At the gas station, Jennifer seductively directs Johnny to enter her car. She stops halfway to her firm, points a gun at him, and orders him to remove all his article of clothing. Johnny insists that the rapes were all her fault because she enticed the men by parading around in revealing wear. She pretends to believe this and invites him dorsum to her cottage for a hot bath, where she masturbates him. When Johnny mentions that Matthew has been reported missing, Jennifer states that she killed him; as he nears orgasm, she takes the knife Matthew brought with him and severs Johnny's genitals. She leaves the bathroom, locks the door, and listens to classical music every bit Johnny screams, haemorrhage to expiry. After he dies, she dumps his trunk in the basement and burns his clothes in the fireplace.

Stanley and Andy acquire that Johnny is missing and take their boat to Jennifer's cabin. Andy goes aground with an axe. Jennifer swims out to the boat and pushes Stanley overboard. Andy tries to attack her but she escapes with the axe. Andy swims out to rescue Stanley, only Jennifer plunges the axe into Andy'south back, killing him. Stanley moves towards the boat and grabs hold of the motor to climb aboard, begging Jennifer not to impale him. She repeats the order he fabricated to her during the sexual assaults, "Suck it, bitch!", then starts the motor, disemboweling him with the propeller every bit she speeds away.

Cast [edit]

Camille Keaton starred in the motion picture as Jennifer Hills. Director Meir Zarchi chosen her "brave" for accepting this function.[9]

  • Camille Keaton as Jennifer Hills
  • Eron Tabor as Johnny Stillman
  • Richard Stride as Matthew Duncan
  • Anthony Nichols as Stanley Forest
  • Gunter Kleemann every bit Andy Chirensky
  • Alexis Magnotti as Becky Stillman, Johnny'southward Wife
  • Tammy Zarchi every bit Melissa Stillman, Johnny'due south Girl
  • Terry Zarchi as Johnny Stillman Jr., Johnny's Son
  • Traci Ferrante as Waitress
  • William Tasgal as Porter
  • Isaac Agami as Butcher
  • Ronit Haviv as Supermarket Girl

Production [edit]

Writing [edit]

The inspiration for I Spit on Your Grave came from an run across writer-director Meir Zarchi had in 1974 with a young woman who was raped and beaten by two men at a park in New York Urban center. The thought did not begin to fully develop until Yuri Haviv, the film's cinematographer, invited Zarchi to spend the weekend at a summer house he had rented in Kent, Connecticut which contains an extension of the Housatonic River nearby. Zarchi somewhen chose to shoot in these locations considering they provided a peace and tranquility temper for the film'south heroine, Jennifer Hills. He spent four months writing the screenplay, the bulk of which was written at his usual Subway route to his office in Times Foursquare and back abode where his wife would then typewrite the handwritten pages in the evening. The typewriter his married woman had used is seen in the film every bit the aforementioned ones Jennifer uses to consummate her manuscript.

Casting [edit]

To cast the stars, Zarchi put up a casting call advertisement in Backstage magazine that sought for one woman and iv men in their 20s to star in a low-budget production. Camille Keaton was one of over 4,000 actresses who auditioned for the function of Jennifer. Zarchi gear up an interview for Keaton and found her to be an "experienced actress" likewise equally "beautiful and photogenic". After a series of auditions to exam Keaton's suitability to the office, Zarchi was convinced that she could play information technology effectively.

Release [edit]

Zarchi was unable to find a distributor, then he distributed the pic himself. Information technology played a number of engagements in rural drive-in theaters, simply merely for brief runs each time, and Zarchi barely made back what he spent in advertising. In 1980, it was picked up for distribution by the Jerry Gross Arrangement. A condition of this re-release was that they could modify the title to annihilation they wished. It was at this time the motion-picture show was retitled I Spit on Your Grave.[11] The movie did not have a theatrical release in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and was solely released on home video in that country.

Commercial performance [edit]

In a 1984 interview with Fangoria, Zarchi said that 20 one thousand thousand people worldwide saw I Spit on Your Grave.[12] The moving picture did poorly at the box office, merely managed to have some success in videocassette sales. I Spit on Your Grave reached number 24 on Billboard 'southward 1981 list of acknowledged titles. The picture show stayed in the Billboard Video Cassette Top Forty for xiv sequent weeks and won the number one best-selling video cassette award above more popular movies like Fiddler on the Roof, The Godfather Part Ii and Grease. By 1982, I Spit on Your Grave had been released on video six times in the Usa due to high demand.[13] In 1984, Zarchi said: "I found out that of the millions of video machines in England, there'southward peradventure ane single firm that has non seen I Spit on Your Grave."[12]

Critical reception [edit]

I Spit on Your Grave received universally negative reviews from critics. Movie critic Roger Ebert referred to it as "a vile pocketbook of garbage...without a shred of creative distinction", calculation that "Attending information technology was ane of the well-nigh depressing experiences of my life."[14] He mentioned in his review that a female member of the audition (1 of many people who randomly talked aloud) had "feminist solidarity for the moving-picture show's heroine". He wrote, "I wanted to ask if she'd been appalled by the motion picture'southward hr of rape scenes." Ebert was likewise one of many to cite the movie'due south poor product quality as a weakness in addition to the scenes he found offensive, stating "The story of I Spit on Your Grave is told with moronic simplicity. These horrible events are shown with an absolute minimum of dialogue, which is so poorly recorded that information technology oftentimes cannot be heard. There is no attempt to develop the personalities of the characters - they are, simply, a daughter and four men, i of them mentally retarded. The movie is nothing more or less than a series of attacks on the daughter then her attacks on the men, interrupted only by an unbelievably grotesque and inappropriate scene in which she enters a church and asks forgiveness for the murders she plans to commit."[15] Ebert also included it on his "near hated" list and considered it to be the worst movie ever made.[16] Both Ebert and boyfriend critic Gene Siskel lambasted the flick on their television program Sneak Previews.[17] In a after episode, Siskel and Ebert chose the film as the worst film of 1980, with Ebert famously saying "the people who made this pic should really be ashamed of themselves, and so should the people who booked it and the people who went to see it--it's really an inhuman, sick film".[18] Siskel would bring together Ebert in calling the film one of the worst ever made.[19]

Critic Luke Y. Thompson of The New Times stated that "defenders of the film have argued that it is 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 at that place is always one left standing".[20] Film critic Marker Kermode has opined that information technology is "securely, deeply problematic at the very best of times" and is not as interesting as earlier exploitation films such equally The Terminal House on the Left. Critic David Keyes named it the worst film of the 1980s.[twenty] This led to the film'south removal from a major theatre.[ citation needed ]

A contributor to Encyclopedia of Horror notes that the pic attracted much contend for and against, frequently involving people who clearly had non actually seen the motion picture. "The men are so grossly unattractive and the rapes and then harrowing, long-fatigued-out and starkly presented information technology is difficult to imagine most male person spectators identifying with the perpetrators, especially every bit the film'due south narrative structure and mise-en-scene force the spectator to view the action from Keaton's point of view. Further, in that location is no proposition that she 'asked for it' or enjoyed it, except, of course, in the rapists' own perceptions, from which the pic is careful to distance itself." The author continues that the scenes of revenge were "grotesquely misread past some critics", as Jennifer just "pretends to have enjoyed the rape then equally to lure the men to their destruction", and that in these scenes the film is critiquing "familiar male person arguments about women 'bringing information technology on themselves' " every bit "but sexist, self-excusing rhetoric and are quite conspicuously presented as such".[21]

Subsequently reception [edit]

The initial criticism was followed by reappraisals of the film. Michael Kaminski's 2007 article for the website Obsessed with Film, titled "Is I Spit on Your Grave Really A Misunderstood Feminist Film?" argues that, when understood inside the context in which director Zarchi was inspired to brand it, the film may exist equally appropriate to analyze as "feminist wish-fulfillment" and a vehicle of personal expression reacting to violence confronting women.[22]

A reappraisal was made by Ballad J. Clover in the third chapter of her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws. Clover notes that she and others like her "appreciate, however grudgingly, the way in which [the movie's] fell simplicity exposes a mainspring of popular culture". Clover further argues that the motion picture's sympathies are entirely with Jennifer, that the male audience is meant to identify with her and not with the attackers, and that the indicate of the moving picture is a masochistic identification with pain used to justify the bloody catharsis of revenge. Clover wrote that in her opinion, the film owes a debt to Deliverance.[23] The British feminist Julie Bindel, who was involved in pickets outside cinemas in Leeds when the picture was released, has said that she was incorrect about the film and that it is a feminist film.[24]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, I Spit on Your Grave holds an approving rating of 53%, based on 36 reviews, and an average rating of 5.4/10. Its consensus reads, "I Spit on Your Grave is equally aggressively exploitative every bit its championship suggests, although equally a crude rejoinder to misogyny, information technology packs a certain amount of undeniable power."[25]

Controversy [edit]

The film caused significant controversy and backlash for its graphic violence, particularly the rape scene, with feminists protesting the motion picture and people accusing the picture show of glorifying rape. The Flick Association of America tried to prevent the picture's producers from using the R rating. After the clan gave I Spit on Your Grave an R rating, the producer of the film added rape scenes, making it an Ten-rated movie.[26] In an interview with Fangoria, managing director Meir Zarchi said equally a response to backlash:

"Frankly, I'm non concerned whether it receives bad press or not. It doesn't touch me one fashion or the other whatsoever. If you told me that the public does not similar information technology and the critics like it, then at that place is something very, very bad well-nigh that. Who am I reaching? Three-hundred critics around the United States, or 2,000 around the world? It'southward really the public that counts, the 20 1000000 who accept seen the moving-picture show effectually the globe."[12]

International bans [edit]

Many nations, including Ireland, Norway, Iceland, and West Federal republic of germany, banned the film altogether, challenge that it "glorified violence against women". Canada initially banned the film, but in the 1990s decided to let its private provinces to make up one's mind whether to permit its release. Since 1998, some provinces (such as Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Quebec) have released the film, with a rating that reflects its content.

The censored American version of the film was released in Australia in 1982 with an R 18+ rating. In 1987, the film survived an appeal to ban it. It continued to be sold until 1997, when another reclassification acquired its ban in Australia. In 2004, the total uncut version was awarded an R 18+, lifting the 7-year ban. The Office of Film and Literature Classification justified this determination by reasoning that castration is non sexual violence (Australian censorship police forbids the release of films that depict scenes of sexual violence equally acceptable or justified).[27]

In the United Kingdom, the film was refused a cinema certificate by the British censors. However, since films on video did not need censor's certificates at the fourth dimension, information technology was released on home video, where it was branded a "video nasty" by the printing. It appeared on the Director of Public Prosecutions' list of prosecutable films until 2001, when a heavily cut version which extensively edited the rape scenes was released with an 18 certificate. The cuts were reduced considerably from 7 minutes 2 seconds in the 2001 release to 2 minutes 54 seconds in the 2011 release, and so that merely the scenes of rape that focus on Jennifer's nudity have been banned since the 2011 release.[28]

In New Zealand, the uncut version of the film (102 minutes) was classified in 1984 as R20 with the descriptive notation, "Contains graphic violence, content may disturb". Other versions with shorter running times (96 minutes) were likewise classified in 1984 and 1985, and received the aforementioned classification.

The Irish Pic Nomenclature Part has again banned the flick from sale. Having been banned for many years in the country, the new Blu-ray and DVD uncensored edition has been prohibited from purchase past retailers due to the nature of the film.[29]

Zarchi's inspiration and responses to criticism [edit]

In the commentary for the Millennium Edition, Zarchi said he was inspired to produce the pic after helping a young woman who had been raped in New York. He tells of how he, a friend and his daughter were driving by a park when they witnessed a young adult female crawling out of the bushes bloodied and naked (he afterwards learned the immature woman was taking a common shortcut to her swain's firm when she was attacked). They nerveless the traumatized girl, returned the daughter dwelling house, and quickly decided it was best to have the girl to the police rather than a hospital, lest the attackers escape and detect further victims.

They quickly decided that they had fabricated the incorrect determination — the officer, who Zarchi described as "not fit to wear the uniform", delayed taking her to the infirmary and instead insisted that she follow formalities such as giving her total proper name (and the spelling), fifty-fifty though her jaw had been broken and she could hardly speak. Zarchi insisted that the officer take her to the hospital and he somewhen complied. Shortly afterward, the adult female'south father wrote both Zarchi and his friend a letter of thank you for helping his daughter. The father offered a reward, which Zarchi refused.[xxx]

In the same commentary, Zarchi denied that the picture show was exploitative and that the violent nature of the moving picture was necessary to tell the story. He described actress Camille Keaton every bit "brave" for taking on the office.[9]

Sequels and remake [edit]

The moving picture was followed by an unofficial sequel, Savage Vengeance (the title menu on the film was misspelled as Savage Vengance) (1993) in which Camille Keaton (under the alias of Vickie Kehl for unknown reasons) reprises the role of Jennifer. All the same, no scenes from I Spit on Your Grave were used for the flashbacks. The picture barely went for 65 minutes, and received extremely negative reviews from critics and fans alike.[ citation needed ]

CineTel Films acquired rights to remake I Spit on Your Grave, which had a Halloween 2010 worldwide theatrical release. The remake was produced past CineTel president and CEO Paul Hertzberg and Lisa Hansen, with Jeff Klein, Alan Ostroff, Gary Needle and Zarchi as executive producers.[31] Steven R. Monroe directed, with newcomer Sarah Butler starring as Jennifer. The follow-upwardly I Spit on Your Grave 2 was released on September twenty, 2013, starring Jemma Dallender, Joe Absolom, Yavor Baharov, and Aleksandar Alekiov. It was directed by Steven R. Monroe and written by Thomas Fenton and Neil Elman. A 2nd sequel, I Spit on Your Grave 3: Vengeance Is Mine, arrived in 2015.

The official sequel I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu, directed by original director Meir Zarchi, was finished in Oct 2016 with Camille Keaton reprising her role as Jennifer Hills.[32]

Home video [edit]

The film received its commencement Blu-ray release on September twenty, 2010 in the Uk from 101 Films. It was released in an 'Ultimate Collector's Edition', containing the motion picture on both Blu-ray and DVD, a collector's booklet and poster. At the time it was the most complete version released in the U.K., but information technology was not uncut - cuts of about three minutes were required for an '18' rating [33] to the rape scenes (previous U.G. releases were cutting past over seven minutes).[34] It was also released alongside the remake in a 'Limited Collector's Edition' on February 7, 2011 in the U.K.[35] It was again submitted for U.M. DVD in 2020, and was passed with lesser cuts, this time totaling 1 min. 41 secs. It was released on Feb 8, 2011 in the United States from Starz/Ballast Bay Entertainment.[36] In Australia, the film was released on March xvi, 2011 as a 'Director's Cut' edition.[ citation needed ] The picture show was released on 4K UHD on October 26, 2021.[37]

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External links [edit]

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  • I Spit on Your Grave at Rotten Tomatoes

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