Product: Day of the Woman (1978)
Rating: 5.0
A gem from horror's Golden Age!
Many people hear the name of this title and immediately it evokes violent and sadist images. The reputation of this film preceeds it. But in actual fact the shroud of mystery surrounding this shocker is lifted when you listen to the directors commentary. So affected was he by a real life incident that he made this film as a fitting revenge story for women ironically. Meir Zarchi's commentary is quite absorbing and even though he sounds like he's reading a book to five year-olds, seems quite articulate in his Italian(presumably)way. This film is way up there with the other classics of the late 70's, early eighties era when directors DID possess the power to truly shock and disgust and in many ways is representative of the lust we have to see real horror, be it supernatural or crime-related. As modern cinema drags us through the mincer again churning out yet more horror remakes with ridiculous budgets, and fresh-faced teen TV stars, it still can't reproduce the grittiness and reputation of a film like I Spit On Your Grave. Even the masters of horror - Carpenter, Hooper or Craven have lost their touch leading us to believe that these 'old' films were truly part of horror's golden age. So rather than try to re-invent the past, buy this dvd and re-live it!