Day of the Woman (1978)
Directed by Meir Zarchi
A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge.
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That’s partially because any new version of I Spit on Your Grave inevitably inherits many of the same issues that have dogged the original since it first surfaced on the grindhouse circuit in 1978.
I’m pretty sure that Steven Monroe wanted to be on set to remake Meir Zarchi ’s accidentally impactful rape-revenge “classic” I Spit on Your Grave.
In 1978, the original "I Spit on Your Grave" had the woman renting a cabin in upstate New York.
Ultimately, though, neither version of “I Spit on Your Grave” can be called a good movie.
This brings me to 1978's Day of the Woman , far better known under its later re-release title I Spit on Your Grave.
“I Spit on Your Grave” improves on Meir Zarchi’s 1978 original, but that’s not saying much.
Camille Keaton in "I Spit on Your Grave," now streaming for free on Tubi.
Starlets and veteran victims attending include Camille Keaton (the original I Spit on Your Grave) and Jill Whitlow (Night of the Creeps).
Dan O’Bannon, who penned Alien’s script, said this of his intention behind using the archaic mother archetype often seen in horror films: the notorious facehugger scene, during which the creature wraps its arms around a male’s face and forces a phallic limb down his throat to plant a seed, is a metaphor for man’s fear of sexual penetration, and this violent invasion of the male character’s body is “payback” for the many horror films in which sexually vulnerable women are attacked by seemingly over powerful male rapists (The Last House on the Left (1972), I Spit on Your Grave (1978)).
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The first is that Maleficent is actually a radical pro-feminist take on the rape revenge fantasy genre — Disney’s I Spit on Your Grave (1978), if you will.
Two movies in particular were attacked by Siskel and Ebert with such venom, I Spit on Your Grave (1978) and The Hitcher (1986), that those kinds of horror movies were immediately frowned upon by all mainstream movie people, press and artists.