Product: Day of the Woman (1978)
Rating: 3.0
Sadistic Attack = Sadistic Revenge
Controversial and hated by critics and feminists, it's easy to see what people found offensive here. A very prolonged and cruel rape scene that is hardly a pleasure to watch. A series of acts of revenge that are justified but methodical and lacking in emotion.ISOYG is not a badly made film- the problem is the realism of the sexual assault that provokes the less than realistic acts of revenge by Camille Keaton on her antagonists. Watching a 20+ minute scene of a pretty young woman being brutalized and tormented by four rural thugs is no picnic, and maybe credit should be given for portraying such a horrible act in a way that is unglamorous and very unsettling as it should be.After suffering with our victim, it's not hard to lust as she does for the blood of her attackers. You may find the revenge less than satisfying and cliched and you may find ISOYG a little overhyped and overlong..