Product: Day of the Woman (1978)
Rating: 1.0
uggggggggggggggghhhhhh!
Part 1: A woman moves from the big city to a small hick town so that she can write a novel. Soon after her arrival she is assaulted ( BRUTALLY raped, beaten, ... and left for dead) by some locals.Part 2: After surviving the attack(s) she exacts revenge on each of her attackers one by one.That sums up the plot of the movie. That is all there is to it. Oh, I almost forgot the grotesque, and laughable, scene that is between part 1 and 2 where the heroine goes into a church and asks for forgivness for what she must do to the bad guys. This scene might have had some value had it been established earlier that she was a religious person but never mind.I don't have a problem with violence in movies, even when they are sick revenge fantasies like this wishes to be. The characters in this movie lacked any dimension so that it was impossible to have any sympathy for any of them. Obviously the filmmaker wants us to sympathize with the women but the way he tries to manipulate us into it by showing us this horrible brutality that is done to her is sick. My guess is that he does this so that maybe we'll think it's ok that she hangs, cuts up, and castrates her attackers. My main beef with this film is the rape scene. i see no reason why it needed to take up a third of the films running time. a good director should know that sometimes less is more. i think that making that long was a sick way of trying to manipulate us into sympathizing with his protagonist. Maybe he wouldn't have needed to do this if he would have properly developed his characters before jumping into the action. And why did he need to make it so graphic. Everyone i talk to says that it has the most realistically graphic rape scene ever. SO WHAT! Just because its realistic doesn't neccessarily make it good, or warranted for that matter. This film was just a showcase for the rape scene.My opinion is that this movie is garbage. If you want a good revenge movie then rent Death Wish or The Limey or anything for that matter. This film is scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel. I Spit on Your Grave IS the absolute worst film I have ever seen!!!!!!