I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Meir Zarchi
Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Richard Pace,
Anthony Nichols, Gunter Kleemann
A notorious exploitation piece in which a young woman played by Camille Keaton spends roughly half the movie being assaulted and the other half getting even. You can decide for yourself which half is more painful to watch. The rape sequences are brutal and degrading, a human being reduced to a quivering piece of meat. The revenge segments are kind of ridiculous, but there's lots of blood. Roger Ebert found the movie despicable. (He was as revolted by the audience he watched it with as he was by the picture itself.) Like it or hate it, it's a rough, uncompromising film, as hard to defend as it is to dismiss.
