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Originally posted by evenodds
I saw [I Spit On Your Grave] in high school and I am still scarred.
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Damn, I remember that one. It was very unpleasant. It is SOOO universally deemed offensive, and it is always interesting to try to figure out why something like that freaks people out more than something else. Most interesting thing about this movie to me was: when a low-budged crappy-production horror outfit does what is actually a relatively serious treatment of how horrible rape is, making it quite thoroughly unpleasant and offensive, it is denouced as exploitation; when hollywood does a "rape" movie with softened edges and good lighting it is social commentary. Doesn't make ISOYG a good movie, but I guess it makes it important to see if one wants to see what has been influential in the horror genre. I don't think I buy the whole militant feminist interpretation thing, but it is interesting. Anything that pisses off so many people so badly is bound to be.
I always wanted to watch this and Argento's Stendhal Syndrome back to back ...
BR(the one that had me hiding under the covers as a kid was the original Blob. But I was 4 when I saw it)C
