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I think I have mentioned before my smoldering loathing for a sleazeball movie called I Spit On Your Grave. This ... film (if you can call it that) is about a woman who rents a house in the country and is gang-raped by four men in a sequence that lasts - I wish I were exaggerating - nearly forty minutes. After recovering somewhat, she goes to a nearby church to ask forgiveness for what she's about to do (repentance, ur doin it rong) and proceeds to brutally kill the men one by one. In the most notorious scene in the film, which is pretty much the only reason people seek it out, she castrates one of the men in a bathtub and leaves him screaming for his mommy until he bleeds to death.
This is a dare movie, pure and simple, with no artistic merit whatsoever and no apparent reason for its shocking violence and disgusting, interminable real-time rape sequence. There is no characterization, no real story, and the production value is so poor that - violence aside - it is nigh unwatchable. It is a product of its time, from an era when you could literally make a movie about anything.
So now, of course, in a time where you can REmake literally anything, SOMEONE IS REMAKING IT. The producers, one of whom was the director of the original (yay, consistency), are planning to make it just as controversial but keep it to an R-rating. Good luck with that, I guess. The original, incidentally, was banned in several countries and originally had to be cut to pieces just to get an adult rating in the UK and Australia.
The original is a nasty, ugly film, but it exists, for better or worse, as part of the history of exploitation cinema. Can't we just leave it at that and not do it over with hotter, younger, douchier actors?
This is a dare movie, pure and simple, with no artistic merit whatsoever and no apparent reason for its shocking violence and disgusting, interminable real-time rape sequence. There is no characterization, no real story, and the production value is so poor that - violence aside - it is nigh unwatchable. It is a product of its time, from an era when you could literally make a movie about anything.
So now, of course, in a time where you can REmake literally anything, SOMEONE IS REMAKING IT. The producers, one of whom was the director of the original (yay, consistency), are planning to make it just as controversial but keep it to an R-rating. Good luck with that, I guess. The original, incidentally, was banned in several countries and originally had to be cut to pieces just to get an adult rating in the UK and Australia.
The original is a nasty, ugly film, but it exists, for better or worse, as part of the history of exploitation cinema. Can't we just leave it at that and not do it over with hotter, younger, douchier actors?
nauseated