I Spit on Your Grave

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Movie
German title I Spit on Your Grave
Original title I Spit on Your Grave
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 108 (NTSC)
104 (PAL) minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Steven R. Monroe
script Stuart Morse
production Lisa M. Hansen
Paul Hertzberg
Meir Zarchi
music Corey Allen Jackson
camera Neil Lisk
cut Daniel Duncan
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I Spit on Your Grave 2

I Spit on Your Grave is an American rape-and-revenge film from 2010. Directed by Steven R. Monroe . It is a remake of I Spit on Your Grave from 1978. In 2013 the sequel I Spit on Your Grave 2 was released . I Spit on Your Grave 3 followed in 2015 .

action

The attractive young writer Jennifer Hills moves to a remote forest house in Louisiana to write her second novel. On the way there she stops at a gas station, where she briefly talks to primitive backwoodsmen around Johnny Miller. After she drove on, they hang out together, drink beer and pursue their fantasies about the beautiful young woman. They refer to them as city sluts or city whores .

During the night, Johnny and his friends Stanley, Andy, and Matthew break into the house and begin tormenting and humiliating them. To escape an impending rape , she sprays pepper spray in the face of one of the men and runs in panic into the forest. When it got light, she met Earl and Sheriff Storch in the woods. The latter offers her help and drives her back to the house on the pretext of searching it. He finds marijuana and a lot of alcohol, which he takes as an opportunity to call "reinforcement". Then Johnny and his friends reappear. She is raped by everyone, whatever Stanley records with his camera. Jennifer faints at some point. When she comes to, she gets up naked and traumatized and stumbles disoriented through the forest. Storch and the others watch with amusement how far she is going. When Storch finally wants to shoot her, Jennifer drops from a bridge into the river. Not knowing whether she is alive or not, they search the banks over the next few weeks to destroy the evidence. Your search remains unsuccessful. Sheriff Storch, who has a pregnant wife and a daughter at home, first destroys the film from the video camera. He tells the other men to burn anything that might indicate the woman's presence. Then all men return to their usual life.

After a month, small clues emerge from the perpetrators, suggesting that Jennifer is still alive. The affable old Earl has no idea about the crime, yet he may inadvertently point out the crime to the authorities or the public. Therefore, Sheriff Storch murders him in cold blood. Jennifer first sends Storch the video of her rape (she secretly stole it from Stanley) and then begins her merciless vendetta. She first captures the mentally retarded Matthew, and then it's Andy and Stanley's turn. While the latter is tied and the eyes are pecked out by crows, Andy has to put his face in an alkaline solution until he dies. Johnny is brutally tortured and bled to death after emasculating him with a hedge trimmer. Next, she kidnaps the sheriff's daughter, posing as her new teacher. Finally, she kidnaps Sheriff Storch, whom she penetrates with a loaded shotgun. Hills does not comment on the whereabouts of the daughter the sheriff was looking for. The shotgun is connected to the arm of the sleeping Matthew via a mechanism, who inadvertently triggers the rifle when he wakes up and kills the sheriff as well as himself. When Jennifer hears the shot, she smiles.

publication

The film opened in US cinemas on October 8, 2010. The film had a $ 2 million production cost and grossed $ 572,809 .

The film was distributed in the United States , Canada , Australia and the United Kingdom by Anchor Bay Entertainment. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the US on February 8, 2011 . In Germany , Sunfilm Entertainment released a rental version on DVD and Blu-ray on May 5, 2011 . This may only be given to adults. The film was checked by the SPIO / JK and found not to be seriously harmful to minors. However, the original film was cut by 4 minutes for the rental version. The FSK rejected the film seven times until, on August 31, 2011, a version shortened by 14 minutes received the FSK approval “no youth approval”.

On June 15, 2011 the label Illusions Unlimited released an uncut version in Austria .

This uncut version was released on March 30th. Indexed 2012 in the Austria publication of Illusions Unlimited and on April 27, 2012 in the USA publication of Anchor Bay Entertainment on List B and finally in the publication of Anchor Bay Entertainment on September 28, 2012 after a request dated August 22, 2012 seized by the Augsburg District Court in accordance with Section 131 of the Criminal Code . The shortened rental version of Sunfilm on October 31, 2012 (DVD) and November 30, 2012 (Blu-ray) was also indexed.

reception

The film received mixed reviews from the trade press. The film magazine Cinema gave the film four out of five points. It was highlighted as negative that the protagonist appeared to be a bit too hardened in her “vengeance campaign”. Thorsten Hanisch from the online film portal Das Manifesto especially praised Sarah Butler's acting performance and described the film as "dark, brutal and gripping." Kyle Smith from the New York Post describes the film as very exciting and brutal and one of the most captivating Horror films from the past five years. Kim Newman of the British film magazine Empire gave the film three out of five stars and described it as more exciting and better than the original. Roger Ebert gave the film 0 stars and described it as a " despicable remake of the despicable 1978 film ". Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle also rated the film very poorly. So he takes up a lot of prejudices against the southern rural population. At the same time, none of the actors come from the southern states. I Spit on Your Grave be disgusting and stir up hatred.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for I Spit on Your Grave . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2011 (PDF; test number: 125 841-a V).
  2. ↑ Sex and Violence Sold in Sexy 'I Spit On Your Grave' One Sheet Debut! In: Bloody Disgusting. July 9, 2010, accessed July 26, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Box Office Mojo: I Spit on Your Grave , accessed July 26, 2011.
  4. ↑ Gregg Kilday: Anchor Bay to release 'Grave' remake. In: The Hollywood Reporter . October 14, 2010, accessed July 26, 2011 .
  5. ↑ FSK release certificate: I spit on your grave. (PDF; 37 kB) In: FSK.de. August 31, 2011, accessed November 15, 2011 .
  6. ↑ I Spit on Your Grave [2010] gets FSK approval. In: schnittberichte.com. September 2, 2011, accessed November 15, 2011 .
  7. ^ I Spit on Your Grave [2010] appears uncut. In: Schnittberichte.com. May 2, 2011, accessed July 26, 2011 .
  8. ^ I Spit on Your Grave [2010] confiscated. In: Schnittberichte.com. September 28, 2012, Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
  9. ^ I Spit on Yout Grave. In: Cinema . Retrieved July 26, 2011 (edition 07/11).
  10. ↑ Thorsten Hanisch: I Spit on Your Grave (USA 2010). In: The Manifesto. December 20, 2010, accessed July 26, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Kyle Smith: I bow to 'I Spit on Your Grave'. (No longer available online.) In: New York Post . September 23, 2010, archived from the original on September 28, 2010 ; accessed on July 23, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nypost.com
  12. ↑ Kim Newman: I Spit On Your Grave Movie Review. In: Empire. Retrieved July 26, 2011 .
  13. ↑ Roger Ebert : I Spit on Your Grave (Unrated). In: Chicago Sun-Times. October 6, 2010, accessed July 27, 2011 .
  14. ↑ Mick LaSalle: Review: 'I Spit on Your Grave'. In: SFGate . October 8, 2010, accessed July 27, 2011 .