She leaves the bathroom, locks the door, and listens to classical music as Johnny screams, bleeding to death. When Johnny mentions that Matthew has been reported missing, Jennifer states that she killed him as he nears orgasm, she takes the knife Matthew brought with him and severs Johnny's genitals. She pretends to believe this and invites him back to her cottage for a hot bath, where she masturbates him. Johnny insists that the rapes were all her fault because she enticed the men by parading around in revealing clothing. She stops halfway to her house, points a gun at him, and orders him to remove all his clothing. She then hangs him and drops his body into the lake.Īt the gas station, Jennifer seductively directs Johnny to enter her car. At the cabin, Jennifer entices him to have sex with her under a tree. Jennifer calls in a grocery order, knowing that Matthew will deliver it. The men learn that Jennifer has survived and beat Matthew up for deceiving them. She goes to church and asks for forgiveness for what she plans to do. In the following days, a traumatized Jennifer pieces both herself and her manuscript back together. Matthew cannot bring himself to stab her, so he dabs the knife in her blood and then returns to the other men, claiming that he has killed her. She passes out Johnny realizes that she is a witness to their crimes and orders Matthew to go and murder her. The other men ridicule her book and rip up the manuscript, and Stanley violently sexually assaults her. Matthew finally rapes her after drinking alcohol. After she crawls back to her house, they attack her again. Matthew refuses to rape Jennifer out of respect and pity for her, so Johnny and Andy rape her instead. She fights back, but the three men rip her bikini off and hold her. She realizes that they planned her abduction so Matthew can lose his virginity. Stanley and Andy start cruising by the cottage in their boat and prowl around the house at night. Matthew is friends with the other three men and reports back to them about the beautiful woman he met, claiming that he saw her breasts. Jennifer has her groceries delivered by Matthew Duncan, who is mildly mentally disabled. The arrival of the attractive and independent young woman attracts the attention of Johnny Stillman, the gas station manager, and Stanley Woods and Andy Chirensky, two unemployed men. Short story writer Jennifer Hills lives in Manhattan and rents an isolated cottage in Kent, Connecticut near the Housatonic River in the Litchfield County countryside to write her first novel.

6.2 Zarchi's inspiration and responses to criticism.

In her memoir Inside Out, Demi Moore confirmed that she is the scantily clad woman on the film's poster, posing with her back turned. A direct sequel, I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu, was released in 2019 with Zarchi and Keaton both returning. The film spawned a 2010 remake, which has since spawned two sequels of its own: I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013), and I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine (2015). In 2010, the film was included in Time magazine's 'Top 10 Ridiculously Violent Movies'. Despite the controversy and negative reviews, the performance of Camille Keaton was praised by critics.

For some, it is this controversy which has led to it being deemed a cult classic. The film remains highly controversial to this day, even being considered to be one of the worst films ever made.

As such, film critic Roger Ebert became one of the most notable detractors of the film, calling it 'a vile bag of garbage'. During its wider release, it was branded a ' video nasty' in the United Kingdom, and was a target of censorship by film commissioning bodies. The film is noted for its controversial depiction of extreme graphic violence, particularly the lengthy depictions of gang rape, that take up 30 minutes of the film's runtime. The film tells the story of Jennifer Hills ( Camille Keaton), a fiction writer based in New York City who exacts revenge on each of her tormentors after four men gang rape and leave her for dead.

I Spit on Your Grave (originally titled Day of the Woman) is a 1978 American rape and revenge horror film written, directed and edited by Meir Zarchi.

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