![]() There is a disappointing lack of originality to the film. His first film was raw and unflinching but it seems as though that is the only bolt he has in his arsenal and he has done little more than replicate exactly the same thing all over again with minimal difference. ![]() The thorough and utter disappointment of the film is that Meir Zarchi, the one who started everything off back in 1978, has succumbed to the exploitation mindset. That said, that line has almost certainly been crossed by the point of I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu. Jamie Bernadette as Jennifer Hill’s daughter on the revenge trail after being subject to the same assault as her mother Probably nobody can answer where this line is or even if there ever was a line all along without an in-depth analysis of the people involved. (Not to mention that there must be a sizeable audience of people out there who must be getting off on this in order for the films to keep being so lucrative). On the other hand, as people start making more money from films depicting the brutalisation and degradation of a woman and her violent reprisal, there comes a point when you start to wonder where the line exists between a legitimately raw work that depicts a rape and the desire for revenge and the wholly exploitative idea of people churning out more of these films because they make money. I even found commendable things to say about the remake and its first sequel. Although it is often accused of being, I did not feel that it was a work of exploitation or titillation. It has a brutality and rawness that gave you little doubt about how harrowing the experience of being raped would be. I was impressed with the original I Spit on Your Grave. Oh and we actually do get to see people spitting on graves this time – an effect that looks way lamer than the epic contempt that the original title ever suggested. The other difference is that there is a woman among the group of rapists who gets in on the act as well (Maria Olsen who proves the most demented of the bunch). The minor difference might be that the rape is not as long and brutally protracted as it was in the first film. The show is then inherited by Jamie Bernadette playing Keaton’s daughter who basically gets to take part in a repeat of the first plot – being raped by four backwoods hicks, surviving and then going on the revenge trail and slaughtering all of them. The surprise is that Keaton is killed off around the 45-minute point. Zarchi has her going through it all over again, this time being attacked by the family members of those she killed. (She has seen a revival of her career in the 2000s all because of I Spit on Your Grave). A 72 year-old Camille Keaton returns to the role of Jennifer HillsĪ 72 year-old Camille Keaton is back. Released around the same time as this, Zarchi’s son Terry also directed a documentary about the original with Growing Up With I Spit on Your Grave (2019). ![]() Thus Zarchi takes the director’s chair up again after a 34 year absence, he now at the age of 82. Clearly the renewed interest of the remake and its sequels has given him the backing to launch his own sequel. Zarchi had been promising to make a sequel back since the 1980s but failed to obtain financing – this is actually the only other film he has directed apart from Don’t Mess with My Sister/Family and Honor (1985). (The two also managed to marry and divorce in the interim). Now, forty years after I Spit on Your Grave was made, original director Meir Zarchi and star Camille Keaton reteam to make a sequel. In more recent years, I Spit on Your Grave has been subject to a remake I Spit on Your Grave (2010), which was followed by two sequels I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013) and I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine (2015). ![]() It depicts a woman (Camille Keaton) who is repeatedly raped over a protracted length of time before escaping and taking brutal vengeance against her rapists. Saved by the slow-witted Herman, she takes up arms and begins to eliminate her attackers.ĭay of the Woman (1978), more commonly known as I Spit on Your Grave, was one of the most harrowing films of its era. ![]() Christy meanwhile undergoes the same brutalisation and rape that her mother did at the hands of the new group. Jennifer makes an escape but is killed on the steps of a church. Jennifer and Christy exit a restaurant following a meetup for lunch only to be abducted by a vanful of people – all relatives of the men that Jennifer killed. She has a daughter Christy who is a successful model. Jennifer Hills is now middle-aged and has written a book about how she was raped but turned the tables and killed those responsible. ![]()
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