Revenge

2017 Directed by Coralie Fargeat

Why do women always have to put up a fight?

Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy (married) boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz Kevin Janssens Vincent Colombe Guillaume Bouchède Jean-Louis Tribes Avant Strangel Barbara Gateau

Alternative Titles

Vingança, La vengeance, Venganza del más allá, Venganza: nunca subestimes a una mujer, Vendeta, Здохни, Выжившая

action thriller horror

109 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by Sean Baker 36

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I saw this three nights ago and didn't write about it immediately because I wanted it to sink in. After three days of pondering, here is what I think: I like this film a lot and want to see it again. The craft is truly impeccable-- confident and bold.
At first, the burning tree took me out of the film. (which is why I didn't want state my opinion about it at first.) But once I began seeing it as total metaphor and the story beyond that point becoming a fantasy, I saw the film differently. It allows the audience to participate in the revenge while still making it clear that there is no happy end here... Jen is raped, murdered and discarded. The bloody revenge of the phoenix that rises from the ashes is unfortunately only possible in the context of fantasy.
Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 5

cameras $200
lighting $150
actor's salary $800
fake blood $3,600
editing $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my movie is dying
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 36

REVENGE takes the misogyny associated with rape-revenge exploitation films and flips it on its head, then drags it through a desert full of broken glass. the level of visceral disgust this woman feels with her abusers is strangely cathartic, and the She Did That! moments are even more so. new french extremity is back and better than ever, baby!
Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 2

Constantly uses the codes of masculinity and the tools of its gaze against multiple subgenres as well as its protagonist's assaulters. This isn't merely retribution for a rape but for decades of cinematic objectification. A terrific piece of modern exploitation.
Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★ 5

A vibrant, bloody, and suffocating hour and 40 minutes. Okay time for bed!! :P
Review by Lulu ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

a rape-revenge story that doesn't subject viewers to an unnecessarily explicit rape scene but makes sure we see every bit of the revenge in all its bloody glory. this is the shit i like to see in 2018!
Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★★★ 15

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
Metacritic Metascore: 81
IMDb: 6.3
84/100
Release Date: 11 May 2018
Distributor: Neon
Budget: $5M
Worldwide Gross: $913K
Total Film Awards: 3
Richard: "Women always have to put up a fucking fight."
SYNOPSIS: Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
Wow. What an adrenaline rush.
I had seen bits of this film being advertised on Shutter but I could never bring myself to watch it until recently, and wow was I caught off guard. Watching this in HD proved to be even more beneficial due to the stunning visuals brought forth by the rolling landscapes.
TRIVIA: The film features so much…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 24

A douchebag alpha dad played by the shredded and square-jawed Belgian actor Kevin Janssens, Richard just wants to spend a quiet weekend in the desert with his teenage mistress, far away from his unseen wife and their pesky children. After all, there’s no point in buying a glass mansion in the middle of nowhere if you’re not going to have illicit sex all over it. And it’s not like Jen (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) isn’t totally into it. The young aspiring actress goes full Lolita in the introductory shot where she climbs out of a helicopter in slow-motion, her eyes shaded in pink sunglasses and her lips pursed around a lollipop. Between the ogling and the Hype Williams hyper-saturation of…
Review by Evan ★★★★½ 10

French female directors are the fucking shit! First we had Raw last year and now we have Revenge this year.
Revenge is a stylish, bloody, brutal genre film. It's like Rambo and Mad Max meets Kill Bill. Real talk, this is one of the bloodiest films I've ever seen. As tough as this film was to watch, I loved every second of this film. The director takes sooooo many risks with this film, but damn near everything totally pays off. The desert landscape, color palette, and score work so perfectly for Revenge.
Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz gives my favorite performance of the year thus far. She was truly outstanding. Matilda is one of the most bad ass and headstrong female…
Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★ 21

Brilliant PSA essentially giving Rape Culture and its defenders the middle finger using their own ludicrous arguments of defense against them!
At the beginning of the film Jen was the epitome of what rape culture claims to be a woman whom is either asking/wanting to be raped and or deserves to be raped for leading men on! Coralie Fargeat puts those bogus claims to bed in short order! Anyone witnessing the film cannot in their right mind justify what these criminals did to her!
Women - 1
Rapists - 0
Has all of the trappings of an exploitation film and Coralie Fargeat uses that to her advantage with the release of her transgressive directorial debut!
Gleefully riding the coattails of…
Review by Ian West ★★★★ 9

Revenge is a sizzling slice of visceral intensity where scumbag trash dude bro’s drip body parts.
Comeuppance done stylishly... with excellent direction, cinematography, pacing, gore, a banger of a score, and a powerhouse performance by Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz. “Not enough grounding in the real world!” is something I’ve seen thrown out a lot... but neither are half the movies where some one liner dropping action star suddenly jumps out of 47 story building windows and onto a helicopter... so I take it this might not work for some people? That’s cool, it worked for me
This rape/revenge/survival jam from Coralie Fargeat was quite the debut—between Raw last year and this movie, French directors have decimated me in the best way and I’m excited to see what they do next.
Review by Anette ★★ 6

The title is misleading. This is not revenge, and the film is certainly not feminist. It is just another conventional genre film using rape as a backdrop.
Spoilers ahead:
There is no satisfaction to be had, because there is no (cinematic) revenge. Within the narrative Jen is raped and left for dead, but she doesn't come back for a "manhunt" which the misleading plot summary says. It's more of a fight to the death, where the men who already raped and tried to kill her get to hurt her even more (and for the most part, it's the men who hunt her). They fight, and by chance the men are the ones who end up dead. Jen’s body is shown…

Recent reviews

Review by giannit ★★★★

Oh fuck ya
Review by AntKnee ★★★★

A rape-revenge flick with buckets of blood and a bad ass heroine hunting her prey, gorily taking them out one by one!
This film had a great B-movie style with practical effects that work wonders! Illogical amounts of blood leak from characters but once you embrace the B-movie, it’s a thrill ride.
Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz gave a great performance, yes she has little dialogue but her face is very expressive. The emotion she conveys works well.
The imagery on display has staying power, especially when she has to cauterize a wound! Some pretty interesting ideas were explored too. But overall, it is very straightforward. I’m just a sucker for revenge flicks.
Angry I didn’t watch this sooner.
Review by PenguinBoss ★★★★

Incredibly well made and stylish. Wonderfully intense violence and thankfully the rape is quite brief. The way things escalate in the beginning is quite unique and really sets up the characters well. The only real problem is that to me, when a genre is this specific, it has no business being more than 90 minutes long, and I feel some scenes could have been shortened(the peyote scene especially) but when all is said and done, this is a fantastic movie and a real achievement for a first time director.
Review by manolet

A la peña con 2753 litros de sangre se le pole mala leche
Review by Conner Max ★★★★

Shudder
Review by Giuliusinthesky ★★★★

Only praises for this masterpiece.
An intense rape-revenge horror where the wounded female lead gets to give a proper "kick in the balls" to the three idiots that hurt her. Also it's directed by a woman.
I will not hesitate to watch it again.
Review by william ★★★★½

Ahhh yes that’s history
Review by Kevin Kuhlman ★★★★

Foot Meat Foot Meat *clap clap clapclapclap*
Review by jasmine 7997 ★★★

So unnecessary. So illogical. So inefficient. But SO BADASS!
Review by Abunaif ★½

يقع ثلاث رجال متزوجين أثرياء أمام درس بالغ القسوة، وهى انه من غير المفترض أن يصطحب المرء عشيقته في إحدى التجمعات الرجالية، خاصة لو كان هذا التجمع مكرسًا للصيد.
Review by Lauren Chilcott ★★★½

A very stylish, brutal rape-revenge horror action with
Incredibly over the top with B-movie aspects, soooo much blood and gore that actually make you wince at times, a great performance from the badass leading lady, gorgeous setting and colour to the movie and a cool unique synth soundtrack, though at times didn’t fit the scene or mood to me.
Overall a really fun revenge film, you just have to switch off your brain and go with the unrealistic nature of the story.
Review by Julia ★★★★½

She did that!!!