Review of I Spit on Your Grave (2010) by Shinyhappypurple . — 21 Apr 2011

Let's put it this way. What if your sister, your girlfriend, or some girl you know is brutally gang raped and left for dead. Miraculously, she survives. Now let's say you were in a position to exact a bloody revenge on her attackers without the law knowing about it. Would you do it? I can speak for myself and say I wholeheartedly would but that could be because I watch too many movies. This remake may be cheap exploitation, but it's cathartic and I can't imagine a single person watching it feeling that these rapist pigs didn't deserve every ounce of pain that Jennifer Hills dishes out to them.

Now, the question remains whether the movie is worth sitting through. Well, if you think there's merit in a movie that depicts a girl being raped and then that girl turns around and tortures her attackers in scenes that look like they're straight out of a Saw movie, then this is the film for you. I mildly enjoyed Meir Zarchi's original film, and this is a less raw, more polished remake that is more or less the same in terms of quality. Like the original, I barely knew Jennifer Hills' character at all, I was horrified by her rape, and I cheered on her revenge. I won't deny I wasn't entertained by seeing a woman do to rapists what the law should be doing to those convicted of such a crime, and I think that was the intent of both Zarchi's original and this remake. Thus, the movie may not be a great movie per se, but show it to the right people, and you could get a great conversation going.