Product: Day of the Woman (1978)
Rating: 3.0
A sadistic tale of revenge.
Jennifer ( Camille Keaton) is a writer from New York City that heads to a cabin in the woods for the summer, but soon four southern bumpkin men assault and rape her leaving her for dead. She then vows revenge to exterminate those cockroaches of men who did those things to her in horrific ways.Disturbing and unpleasant explotation horror drama that has became one of the most controversial movies of the 70's and still is. This movie has been slammed by the critics especially Siskel and Ebert who called this a "Vile smelly and putrid piece of man hating garbage" and a few critics did phrased the movie like Joe Bob Briggs, the movie went on to become a phenomenon on the video rental and sales market. The movie was originally going to be rated "X" for extreme violence ( especially that grotesque and graphic castration scene0, nudity and rape but the director was forced to cut some of the stuff off to get an "R" rating into theaters as it had a different title called "Day of the Woman" and when the alternate edition with the better title "I Spit on Your grave" came out in 1980 it was fully uncut on video, this has been called nothing but pro-femenist propaganda but i think it's a good and vile nasty little flick that does offer a good message about rape and the consenquences about it.This millenium edition DVD offers very good THX remastered picture and sound quality with some very nice extras like two commentaries: One by director-writer Meir Zarchi and one by film critic Joe Bob Briggs. There is a easter Egg in the main menu, click up and you'll see a photo gallery in the words "Grave" and the other extras include trailers, TV Spots, Radio Spots, reviews by critics, filmographies and foreign and domestic poster-and-still gallery, this is not a movie for easily upset but worth a view if you can handle this kind of subject matter.Also recommended: "Maniac ( 1980)", " Last House on The Left", "Blue Velvet", "High Tension", "Battle Royale", " A Clockwork Orange", " Cannibal Holocaust", "Cannibal Ferox", " Love and a .45", " 8MM", " A Time to Kill", " Kill Bill", " House on The Edge of the Park", "Caligula", " Man Bites Dog", " Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", " Axe", "Cabin Fever", "The Toolbox Murders", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series & Remake", " The Hills Have Eyes", "Robocop", " The Toxic Avenger", and "Leon: The Professional".