Fuck off.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Rapists are the easiest assholes for a chick to get sweet revenge on. Flash em a little wink, and they're all yours.

Every time I start this film I remember how much I hate it, then when it passes the half-way point I remember how much I love it. The revenge this chick gets a sweet, but it's a shame that she's so quick to get over it or make it change her 'for the better'. It'd be a terrible thing to live with. If it happened to me and I got my revenge, I'd still crawl into a ball and be insecure for quite some time. Still, I get that this is pure exploitation and there's no real message here, besides 'rape is horrible'.

Everything a rape and revenge exploitation film should be: simplistic, moronic and difficult to watch. Only watch if you understand this. The rape is brutal and gratuitous yet the revenge allows the viewer to reach a catharsis along with the main character. Don't expect a single thing more.

It's quite rapey.

This is a hard one to define. On one hand it is relentlessly and unnecessarily brutal. The rape and violence is graphic, disturbing and drawn out. And by drawn out I mean it lasts for half an hour.

But on the other hand it is never trivialized. Jennifer is traumatized and given sympathy from the film. Not once does the film suggest that what happened was okay, and perhaps it needs to be so repugnant in order to show the true horror of it all.

I can't really figure out where this film falls. It's certainly not a light watch.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I Spit on Your Grave made me feel complex and confusing things:

1. This movie forces you to watch three and a half rape scenes that are incredibly disturbing and incredibly violent. That's not awesome.

2. Jennifer, the main character, takes the whole rape-revenge business very seriously and at the end is a powerful and terrifying character. That's mostly interesting.

I'm having a hard time deciding whether this film is a "feminist" film or not, and lots of other people have had a hard time figuring it out too. But, ultimately, the way in which Jennifer gets her revenge is by having sex with her rapists--which I'm pretty sure is fucked up. Also I can't behind rape meted out as punishment for rape.

Everyone loves a good revenge horror movie.
But I hate rape scenes! Even the unrealistic ones.
I appreciate the movie for its take-home message (if you rape a girl, she will fuck your shit up), as well as the awesome transformation of the heroine. To be honest, I could analyze it for hours because a guy in my gothic lit class did a presentation on it as well as its genre in which I won't delve into, but it's definitely worth researching.
This movie also ruined my chances of renting out a lakehouse for a summer to write my next award-winning novel.
womp womp.

Ruthless exploitation shocker about attractive girl taking gruesome revenge over 4 thugs who raped, brutalized and left her for dead. Morally despicable but its unflinching, detached glaze and the absence of musical score show a crafty talent that somehow make up for the film's porn-like attitude

I don't know how I feel

Well, there was lots of rape, and that became repetitive over time; besides that, I enjoyed this film.

Unnoticed the first time through due to the subject matter and on-screen horribleness, I didn't fully realize the extent of how interminably dull and terribly produced/shot/written it is. It's just terrible...just terrible.