I Spit on Your Grave (2010 film)
| I Spit On Your Grave | |
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 Official promo poster | |
| Directed by | Steven R. Monroe |
| Screenplay by | Jeffrey Reddick |
| Story by | Meir Zarchi |
| Produced by | Lisa M. Hansen Paul Hertzberg Meir Zarchi |
| Starring | Sarah Butler Chad Lindberg Daniel Franzese Rodney Eastman Jeff Branson Andrew Howard |
| Cinematography | Neil Lisk |
| Edited by | Daniel Duncan |
| Music by | Corey Allen Jackson |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Anchor Bay Entertainment |
Release dates |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | Template:FilmUS |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.5 million |
| Box office | $93,051[3] |
I Spit on Your Grave (also known as I Spit on Your Grave: Unrated) is a 2010 rape and revenge horror film and a remake of the controversial 1978 cult classic of the same name.[4] It is directed by Steven R. Monroe[5] and stars Sarah Butler, Chad Lindberg, Daniel Franzese, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, and Andrew Howard.[6]
Plot
The film begins with Jennifer (Sarah Butler) driving to a shop to pick up the keys to a cabin she has rented for a few months and to get directions. She is going to the cabin in the woods down south to write her second novel. On her way to the cabin she gets lost and pulls into a gas station where she encounters a group of grease heads. She accidentally spills some fluid on the head of the group, Johnny (Jeff Branson), and hits the panic button on her car, scaring him. The other guys make fun of him for getting scared. Jennifer drives off into the gravelly road to the cabin. A few days pass and something strange happens. One night she begins to hear noises every so often that make her uneasy. Her first visitor is Matthew (Chad Lindberg), who is sent to the cabin to fix the broken toilet. His reward is a kiss from Jennifer, and the shy Matthew runs out of the cabin. He later meets up with the group, and the guys begin to talk about Jennifer.
Nightfall comes and Jennifer begins to hear noises around the house. She checks and finds nothing. Her fears are realized when the gang from the gas station come to the cabin to get Matthew laid. After they mess with her, making her perform fellatio on bottles and a gun, she is able to escape the cabin and runs off into the woods. She bumps into Storch (Andrew Howard), the sheriff, and Earl (Tracey Walter), the person she rented the cabin from. Storch brings Jennifer back to the cabin acting like he is going to help her. He finds wine and a joint and begins to interrogate her. After an improper pat down, the boys come through the door and she realizes that they are in cahoots. They hold her down, so Matthew can rape her. After he is done, she just gets up and walks out the cabin and into the woods. She is confronted by the gang again, this time they each have a turn raping her. Storch anally rapes her, she gets up again and walks out of the woods and onto a bridge. Just when Storch is going to shoot her, Jennifer jumps into the river. The gang searches for her body but have no luck finding her and begin to get rid of any evidence left behind.
A month passes before Jennifer returns. She has survived in the woods for a month eating, as she explains later, bugs and other things and has been staying in a run-down house in the woods. She starts playing games with the group who all think Matthew has lost it. To keep Earl quiet about Jennifer's visit, Storch kills him while hunting. Jennifer's first victim is Matthew, the slower of the bunch who has a crush on her and is the only one that feels remorse. Jennifer, however, does not care and drags him away with a noose around his neck. Her second and third victims are the group's two lackeys. Stanley (Daniel Franzese), the fat one, steps in a bear trap, and Andy (Rodney Eastman) gets knocked out with a baseball bat. Jennifer uses fish hooks to keep Stanley’s eyes open while she pulls out a fish and guts it, and spreads the guts all over his face. This is all being recorded on his camera; the same camera he used to film her being raped. The fish guts attracts crows, who begin to peck on his face and eventually his eyeballs. Andy is tied up lying on a few boards over a bath tub being filled with water. Jennifer throws in some lye and removes one of the boards forcing him to use his strength to stay out of the base. Eventually his face hits the base filled bath tub. Each time he pulls himself up we see his base burned face, with his tongue dissolved. Johnny is strung up naked with a bridle in his mouth. Jennifer begins to pull out his teeth one by one, then she pulls out the hedge clippers and cuts off his penis and sticks it in his mouth, leaving him to bleed to death.
After Jennifer is done with Johnny, she goes to visit the sheriff's family. Pretending to be his daughter's school teacher, she talks to him on the phone. Storch races home to find Jennifer is no longer there. He finds out she has taken his daughter to the playground. Storch races there to find no one, except Jennifer in the back seat of his cop car. After the sheriff wakes up from the blow from the tire iron, Jennifer begins to rape Storch anally with a shotgun. She has also attached a string to the trigger and the other end has been tied around Matthew’s wrist. She walks out of the house with Storch begging for mercy and cursing her out at the same time. Then Matthew wakes up and in a failed attempt by Storch to calm Matthew down, Matthew moves, firing the shotgun, killing both Storch and Matthew. She is then seen sitting in a tree with a smirk on her face.
Cast
- Sarah Butler as Jennifer[7]
- Chad Lindberg as Matthew[8]
- Daniel Franzese as Stanley[9]
- Rodney Eastman as Andy[10]
- Jeff Branson as Johnny[11]
- Andrew Howard as Storch[10]
- Tracey Walter as Earl[12]
- Mollie Milligan as Mrs. Storch[13]
- Saxon Sharbino as Chastity[14]
- Amber Dawn Landrum as Girl at Gas Station[15]
Production
Principal photography began on November 2, 2009, under the direction of Steven R. Monroe.[16] The film stars Sarah Butler, Chad Lindberg, Daniel Franzese, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, Andrew Howard, Saxon Sharbino, and Amber Dawn Landrum.[6] It was distributed by CineTel, and produced by the company's president and CEO Paul Hertzberg.[17] Lisa Hansen, Jeff Klein, Alan Ostroff, Gary Needle and Meir Zarchi (director of the original) served as executive producers.[18] Location filming took place in Louisiana.[19] This film was written by Stuart Morse.
Release
CineTel Films has a planned 2010 worldwide theatrical release.[20] The film was part of the Texas Frightmare Weekend on 1 May 2010 in the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Irving, Texas[21] and part of the Film4 Frightfest on 29 August 2010.[22] The Canadian unrated premiere[23] was part of the Fantasia Festival on 28 July 2010,[24] with the complete cast and Meir Zarchi the director of the original.[25] An unrated version was released limitedly on October 8, 2010 in the United States.[2][26]
Home media
The film is distributed in the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand by Anchor Bay Entertainment.[27] The DVD and Blu-ray were released in the United States on February 8, 2011.
Critical reception
Critical reaction to the film has been mostly negative with a 37% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[28] Roger Ebert gave the film zero stars and described it as "a despicable remake of a despicable original". He claimed that it added "a phony sense of moral equivalency", stating "If I rape you, I have committed a crime. If you kill me, you have committed another one. The ideal outcome would be two people unharmed in the first place". With that, he concluded that the first half of the film was the offensive part of the film, as the segment with the male characters tormenting and finally raping Jennifer was a more plausible scenario than the ways in which Jennifer got revenge against them.[29] Ebert would later add "this (version) is more offensive, because it lingers lovingly and at greater length on realistic verbal, psychological and physical violence against the woman, and then reduces her "revenge" to cartoonish horror-flick impossibilities".[30] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote "In addition to all the obvious things that are disgusting about this movie, I Spit on Your Grave is trying to get us to hate each other. Hate it instead. It makes more sense and the hatred is much more deserved."[31] Critic Andrew O'Hehir also denounced the notion that the film has a message, writing that it "Just piles imaginary atrocities on top of real ones, and then halfheartedly claims that it means something. Well, it doesn't".[32] They're Coming To Get You Barbra was a little less subtle in its review stating : "Lead actress Sarah Butler (who was apparently attracted to the role for it's "strong feminist arc" ahem...) may look back on her dried up career at some point in the future and realise that it was this movie to blame." [33]
Some support for the film in mainstream press came from The New York Times, which wrote, "Female-empowerment fantasy or just plain prurience, “Grave” is extremely efficient grindhouse."[34] V.A. Musetto, from The New York Post, also offered some support for the film, stating people should "see it if you can handle it".[35]
Like its predecessor, the film did find limited cult support. Fangoria Magazine, writes that I Spit On Your Grave "...is just as raw and upsetting in its onscreen brutality as the original. Perhaps more so, since the acting is significantly better this time around",[36] and Paul McCannibal, from DreadCentral.com, agrees that the remake is "well executed, punishing, and viciously rewarding".[37]
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- ^ Brunton, Richard (2009-09-05). "I Spit on Your Grave remake going hard". Filmstalker. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
- ^ "Anchor Bay to Bring the Horror to the Texas Frightmare Weekend".
- ^ "Film4 Frightfest '10 – New Still: I Spit on Your Grave".
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- ^ Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic (2010-10-08). "Review: 'I Spit on Your Grave'". Sfgate.com. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
- ^ Andrew O'Hehir. ""I Spit on Your Grave": Bogus feminist torture porn lives!".
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