Good concept, poorly executed.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

That's right, I watched this movie when I was five-years-old (Thanks mom and dad)! Please forgive me if my recollection is a little hazy. Jennifer (Camille Keaton), for whatever motivation, moves to the great outdoors. Later, she's raped by four men, one of whom is mentally challenged. From there, she hangs, castrates, and disembowels her rapists. That's the entire movie!And now, I have to try to think of something nice to say about this movie: I Spit on Your Grave still eats away at me to this day. Not because of the violence, the violence is tame compared to other films. I feel powerless when I experienced that unnecessary rape scene.Also, there are some great film theory books that examine this film such as "Men, Women, and Chainsaws" by Carol J. Clover, "The Monstrous Feminine" by Barbara Creed, and "Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study" by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.Other than that, I have a difficult time recommending this film. The acting, screenwriting, cinematography (especially framing), production design, and directing are extremely subpar. The rape scene is gratuitous and exploitative. Once the revenge starts, I lost sympathy for the main character. The cruelty that each character displays is truly repulsive and left my stomach churning. While this might of been the point of the director to reveal the horrors of rape and brutality, Meir Zarchi forgets nuance and relevancy.

I was interested in seeing this movie if only because Roger Ebert said it was the worst movie ever made. I was interested in seeing what other people thought of what would be considered the worst ever made. I wonder what Mike Nelson thinks of this? Anyway, this movie is of course horrible and it's not just because it's a disgusting violent film. The acting is terrible. There's this one really obnoxious guy who sounds like Woody Allen. Even the way the story is told is terrible. All the action stops at literally the last three minutes of the film making it horribly paced. It can be very unsettling watching these graphic rape scenes. The characters are just plain stupid. Near the end, the rapists have no problem meeting up with the girl again. Aren't they afraid of what she'll do seeing as how they raped her? There was no male genitalia shown although we did get to see the woman's crotch a lot. Even the box cover says that the woman gets revenge on five men even though there's only four men. Are the creators of this movie so stupid they can't even count? It's a horribly ugly mess with nothing but an excuse to show horrifying images. There's no character development or purpose in the entire film at all. It shows up on a lot of worst ever lists even though the overall score both here and RottenTomatoes isn't that bad! *

Repugnant exploitative misogynist trash that has long been a favorite among weirdos and creepers. The "story" is about a young woman from New York (Camille Keaton, granddaughter of Buster Keaton) who goes to the country to write. She's then savagely and repeatedly raped by four men, one of them mentally retarded (charming). Afterwards she gets her revenge. There comes a point where you subject a character to so much brutality and degradation that no amount of revenge will make the experience enjoyable. This movie passed that point with the first protracted rape scene. Yes, first, as the woman is raped three times over the span of forty minutes! It's a disgusting soulless movie with ZERO redeeming qualities. This didn't need to be made and, if you found it entertaining, please seek help. A strong contender for the worst movie ever made, on moral grounds if nothing else.

This over the top and now quite infamous film can be read on many levels. An attractive young single woman from New York retreats to the country to write a novel where she is subjected to multiple rapes by a group of locals. Wisely they decide she must not live to tell the tale, but leave the murder to the simpleton of the group; he chickens out, telling them he has killed her, and then after taking some time to clean herself up and gather her senses, she sets about exacting a terrible revenge."I Spit On Your Grave" was reviled by the feminist movement – then in its second wave – on release. But is this a film that degrades women, or men, or us as a species? Is it an attempt to justify revenge; a warning to men that if you commit rape, this could happen to you; or perhaps a warning that if you do commit heinous crimes it is best not to leave any witnesses?The country hicks in this film were not particularly bright, but neither is whatever message it carries. Yes, mass murder is not the answer to rape, even if revenge is a dish that is best served cold. Better a world in which there is no revenge because there is nothing to avenge. Would that be a much duller world? Hardly. Alas, today's film-makers clearly remain unconvinced.