I Spit on Your Grave
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge.
Our read · I Spit on Your Grave (1978) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded exploitation · rape-revenge · video-nasty entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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