By: Steph Sharples

First of all, the title is great. It gets even better when you read the premise. A remake of the 1978 film of the same name, I Spit on Your Grave centers on a young writer who is brutalized (to say the least) during her cabin retreat and consequently seeks revenge on her attackers who left her for dead. Roger Ebert called the original film "a vile bag of garbage". Doesn't that make you want to see this one more?

The movie caused a lot of controversy because of its lengthy and brutal rape scenes. I recently watched The Last House on the Left and even though the rape scene was only a few minutes long, it's still very hard to watch. I'm sure this one will stir up just as much controversy and criticism, probably even more so with the help of the internet. I enjoyed (for lack of a better word) the trailer as it looks like it could be a solid revenge/horror flick. "Forgive me father for I will sin". Fun fact: Damian from Mean Girls is in this... as one of the bad guys. Writer Jennifer Hills takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson. They break into her cabin to scare her. However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation and intimidation, quickly and uncontrollably escalates into a night of physical abuse and torturous assault. But before they can kill her, Jennifer sacrifices her broken and beaten body to a raging river that washes her away. As time passes, the men slowly stop searching for her body and try to go back to life as usual. But that isn’t about to happen. Against all odds, Jennifer Hills survived her ordeal. Now, with hell bent vengeance, Jennifer’s sole purpose is to turn the tables on these animals and to inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on her… only much, much worse.

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