A couple of days later, she is successively and brutally gang raped by three local bigoted rednecks and one retarded delivery boy from the supermarket. In summertime, the aspirant New Yorker writer Jennifer Hills (Camille Keaton) rents a lakeside cottage in the woods of the peaceful Park Hell Lane, Connecticut, to write her first novel during the vacation.
A hard film to watch but one that gets better with each viewing. The performances are also very good, especially Keaton who is the granddaughter of Buster. The film is extremely well made and the director made a nice choice by not adding a music score. The violence in the second half is over the top and brutal but again, I personally feel the director wanted the men to feel as much pain as the woman did and this included a graphically violent scene where one of the men gets his penis cut off.
There's no doubt the film is vile and disgusting but the director wanted to show the effects of rape. Ebert would go on to call this the worst film ever made but I guess the two didn't realize that because of them this would become one of the biggest cult films ever made. The controversy really hit full speed when Siskel and Ebert got this pulled from Chicago theaters as well as getting it pulled from cities across the country. This is probably the most controversial movie ever made and the 23-minute rape scene has a large part to do with that but in my opinion this film has been mistreated for many years now. After recovering from her injuries the woman goes out to seek revenge against the men.
I Spit on Your Grave (1978) *** (out of 4) Vile and notorious shocker about a female writer (Camille Keaton) from NY who goes to the country for a vacation only to be gang raped by four men.
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