Product: Day of the Woman (1978)
Rating: 1.0
No doubt one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
The plot is about as bare-bones as an exploitation film gets: A writer from the "big city" rents a country home to work on a new novel. A group of hicks attack and rape her several times, then leave her for dead. She recovers, and seduces, then murders them one by one. Roll credits.I'm really baffled as to the purpose of this film.Are the rape scenes realistic? Sure; they're graphic and uncomfortable. Is the realistic portrayal of rape in itself a worthy goal for a movie? Not really. I could make a movie that realistically portrays animal torture and prison sex... but without a plot or characters, why would anyone waste 90 minutes of their time?Viewers who say there's some kind of feminist subtext to the film are putting a lot more thought into the picture than the director did. Keaton continues to be a sex object right until the end of the picture.What's really awful about the film, though, is the completely amateurish acting, cinematography, dialogue and script. The movie does not even have a soundtrack. Really awful stuff.If you want to see a rigorously disturbing horror/exploitation film that ALSO has some artistic sense, find a copy of "Cannibal Holocaust." It's infinitely better than this awful, awful film.