Last night,  I finally got around to watching the horror film 2010 remake of “I Spit On Your Grave”. I haven’t seen the original 1978 version yet, but I plan on seeing the original soon. The film created a lot of controversy over the years, both the original and the remake, got a lot of negative feedback from fans & critics. When I finally saw this film last night, I was at the edge of my seat the entire time. It was a very serious horror film.

The story tells a young woman named, Jennifer Hills, who is very hot and beautiful. She’s a writer and she goes on vacation to a cabin to find a place alone where she could write her book. 5 men help her along the way, and later on in the story, she finds out that the men are psychotic rapists. All 5 men have a turn at raping and torturing her. When she finally escaped from the men, she kills them all for revenge.

In most horror films, the villains are usually the killers, but not this one. This film is totally different in so many ways. It concentrates on the main character, the hero, Jennifer Hills, being the killer.

In the films defense of the critics, I think the film’s goal was that they wanted to bring awareness to rape. Men raping women still goes on to this day. Yes, the film’s content is very gruesome and very gory, but it was meant to be that way. If the film didn’t have the murders and the gore, then they would fail at bringing awareness to rape. The girl in the film, Jennifer Hills, was doing it for self defense because no one would help her and she couldn’t do anything about it. She had no choice but to kill them all. That’s why she did what she did.

It was also a very sad film. After she got raped by the 5 men and she was killing the 5 of them, one at a time, you actually got very deep into her feelings and almost felt sorry for her. In real life, when women get raped by men, the women usually don’t do anything to escape because the man have so much power over her. The film wants to let women know that self defense is okay. If you’re a woman and being brutally attacked or raped by a man, do whatever it takes to protect yourself, even if it means killing him.

Killing for self defense is sometimes okay, when you can do nothing about it to protect yourself. You might get some prison time but not life, and you even maybe a free person and not get prison time at all because you defended yourself. Most found the film offensive and silly, but it’s a very realistic film that something like this can happen to anybody, anytime and anywhere. Even men can get raped by men and women too, but it rarely happens.

I thought it was a pretty powerful horror film. The film is very graphic and gory like I said. I didn’t get sick to my stomach watching this film because I’ve seen so many horror films over the years, I’m used to it. The horror genre is my favorite. Check it out. Give it a rent or buy it. It’s worth seeing.

Kev