Review of I Spit on Your Grave (2010) by Dean M — 21 Mar 2011
This do-over of the 1978 rape-and-revenge nasty improves on the crude original in every respect - save that it's less upsetting. Among the most needless entries in the make-it-again stakes, it's a game of two halves: the first section finds city girl Jennifer (Sarah Butler) menaced, molested and raped by a gang of rural misogynist creeps; this effectively unpleasant experience licenses the audience to enjoy Part Two, in which she visits Jigsaw-like vengeance upon scuzzball dolts.
Director Steven R. Monroe does a sturdy job with the material, melodrama is salted with suspense (something the original couldn't manage), old plot holes are filled and Butler is strong enough to survive professionally.
Among its redundant peers, better than the remake of The Last House on the Left or A Nightmare on Elm Street.
This review of I Spit on Your Grave (2010) was written by Dean M on 21 Mar 2011.
I Spit on Your Grave has generally received mixed reviews.
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