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So I keep hearing about this 70s controversial cult horror classic, and decided to check it out.
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I felt that the movie had a very misandrist feel to it perhaps. I know that it's about one woman who wants revenge on the men that raped her of course, but it feel misandrist in the sense that there was not one good male character in the movie to balance things out. They are all evil, which makes it come off that way to me.
The movie was written by a man though, so I would assume he didn't intend it to be a knock against though, even though that's what it came off as.
The villains in the movie are also stupid. I mean none of these guys think that it's odd how she seduces them back after, as if they are not expecting it to possibly be any sort of trick at all.
I mean how can a guy have sex with a woman, and not notice at all, that she is putting a noose around his neck during the sex?
And later, how can a guy take a bath with a woman and not notice that is bringing a knife into the bathtub, when she is right there in front of him with the knife?
It just seemed so poorly written to have not only stupid villains but to have this misandrist feel by not having any non-evil male characters.
But what do you think, perhaps I am looking at it wrong?
It was simply a cheaply made drive-in theater exploitation B-movie. It meant nothing else, there's no higher meaning to it then to get people into the drive-in theater. If you are young, you might not be aware that back then, the main-stream walk-in theaters and movie companies (that mostly owned each other) would NOT provide 1st run mainstream movies to drive-in theaters, as they considered them major competition.
So, that allowed a market in very cheaply made drive-in theater movies from the '50's through the '80's, before the majority of drive-in theaters were sold off to developers, as the property they sat on became worth a lot of money. Or, simply went out of business due to VCR movies, and people just stopped going to them.
Okay thanks. I know it's a B movie, but couldn't they make a good B movie though? I mean The Last House On The Left, was considered to be a B movie to in the same type of rape and revenge horror genre, and that one is a lot better.
A vile bag of garbage named "I Spit on Your Grave" is playing in Chicago theaters this week. It is a movie so sick, reprehensible and contemptible that I can hardly believe it's playing in respectable theaters, such as Plitt's United Artists. But it is. Attending it was one of the most depressing experiences of, my life.....
This movie is an expression of the most diseased and perverted darker human natures, Because it is made artlessly, It flaunts its motives: There is no reason to see this movie except to be entertained by the sight of sadism and suffering. As a critic, I have never condemned the use of violence in films if I felt the filmmakers had an artistic reason for employing it. "I Spit on Your Grave" does not. It is a geek show. I wonder if its exhibitors saw it before they decided to play it, and if they felt as unclean afterward as I did.
It goes only to show how depraved human beings really are but the movie is tame compared to it.
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