NY Timeout - The original, a yucky 1978 rape-revenge fantasy that also went by the name Day of the Woman, was less a movie than a classic dare of the VCR era: a gauntlet that teens ran after their parents went off to bed. The violence was crude and catastrophic, the lessons didactic. Unexpectedly, it’s become a handy reference point of late, as new exploitation flicks like Antichrist get praised, mysteriously, as feminist statements; I Spit on Your Grave’s Jennifer—bloody, torn and armed to the teeth—is hardly a human being, never mind female.
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Count Jackula tackles the ever present accusation that horror films are misogynistic. In this first in the Misogyny in Horror series, he analyzes a film so notorious that it was banned in several countries, I Spit On Your Grave. Directed by Meir Zarchi and starring Camille Keaton.
