I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (The Remake)

I Spit On Your Grave is the 2010 remake of the 1978 "cult classic" film about a woman who gets viciously gang-raped--repeatedly--and seeks brutal revenge against her attackers. The remake is pretty much the same plot-wise as the original--of which I've also reviewed on this blog--as it centers on a young woman who rents a cabin out in the woods and ends up getting brutally beaten and raped by a gang of sadistic backwoods thugs, including a "mentally-challenged" one. What separates the remake from the original is that, in the remake, a redneck cop gets "involved" on the rape and then later "encourages" the others to burn her car and get rid of all the evidence, including footage of the rape shot by one of the rapists on his video camera after they erroneously believe the woman is dead. However, unbeknownst to them, the woman survives and begins stalking her rapists. She then begins dispatching them one-by-one in the most brutal ways imaginable (like, for instance, as in the original, the woman slices off one of the rapists's, shall we say, appendages--in the remake, it's with a pair of garden shears--and lets him bleed to death while he's hanging from the ceiling). Another way the remake is "different" from the original is that the woman actually kidnaps the sheriff's young daughter towards the end of the film and it's never revealed what happened to her, which made me feel a little less sympathetic towards her character. In any case, the remake is every bit as brutal and uncompromising as the original, perhaps even more so, especially how the woman gets her revenge on her attackers (and, of course, you'll have to watch the film to see what I'm talking about, if you handle it, that is!). So is I Spit On Your Grave a "better" film than the original? I would say it seems more professionally-made than the original. As for whether or not it's a "good" film, as I stated about the original, I can't say whether or not it is a "good" film, at least for myself. It is one of the most brutally savage films, along with the original, that I've ever seen. I can also safely say it's most definitely a film you WON'T soon forget! (I, for one, found the "fish torture" scene rather, shall we say, unique!) A sidenote: This blog's namesake the late Roger Ebert thoroughly trashed this film the same as he did the original, calling it a, and I quote, "despicable remake of the despicable 1978 film." Come on, Roger, tell us how you REALLY feel!

Here's the trailer for the remake of I Spit On Your Grave (you've been warned!):