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Roger Ebert writes: When I saw it at 11:20 a.m. Billed as a schlocky exploitation flick about rape and revenge, not only were critics examining it under that pre-textwith theater lobbys displaying its titillating posterbut audiences were there mainly to enjoy those aspects, and in some ways it was a form of soft-core pornography. Attending it was one of the most depressing experiences of my life. Eberts reaction was mainly encouraged by the context in which he saw it, and the audience he was with.

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It is a movie so sick, reprehensible and contemptible that I can hardly believe it's playing in respectable theaters, such as Plitt's United Artists. A vile bag of garbage named I Spit on Your Grave is playing in Chicago theaters this week, Ebert wrote in his 1980 review. Roger Ebert was assigned to view the filmdisliking most horror films to begin with, he was absolutely appalled at what he saw. In many ways, that critics revolted in utter disgust is quite predictable.

Like 'Caligula', it was seen as halfway to porn, but much more vile for the way in which it portrayed and excessively indulged the rape and beating of the heroine. Nor was the audience that was attending much of this film and other films like it very encouraging to its reputationmost of them were there for the shocks, for the violence and the graphic sex. Its poster showed a voluptuous womans buttocks, a bloodied knife grasped in a hand, with a schlocky tagline. Billed under other titles such as 'I Hate Your Guts' and 'The Rape of Jennifer Hill', and playing in double-bills with other shocker and exploitation B-movies (or even C-movies) of the time, it is understandable that it was viewed in the same context as one might look at something like 'Redneck Zombies'. Thus, taking all of these elements, a highly marketable grindhouse flick, low in budget that might play for a few weeks, make some quick cash and disappear, appeared in the late 70s called 'I Spit On Your Grave'.

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'The Lady Snowblood' series was still popular at the grindhouse, about a young womans vigilante revenge, and butt-kicking heroines were all the rage with 'Cleopatra Jones' and Pam Griers many roles. In the mainstream, the watered-down revenge flick was running strong, with films like 'Death Wish', 'Mad Max' and 'Taxi Driver' (the art house example of the genre). Most of these were preceding the development of films such as 'Last House on the Left', 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and 'Dawn of the Dead', films with graphic torture, shocking gore and extreme violence. The same period gave us Lucio Fulcis 'Zombi 2', a gore-filled low-budget cash-in on 'Dawn of the Dead', it gave us 'Cannibal Holocaust', a graphic and equally-maligned splatter film about cannibals, it gave us 'Caligula', a graphic and also controversial film that mixed the deadly combo of sex and violence, and it gave us other titles such as 'Cannibal Ferox', 'Salo', and 'The Beyond'. This was the time of the splatter flick, the exploitation flick, the revenge flick. Around 1980 it was re-released, and it is here that its identity was born. The film actually came out in 1978, but it was mostly ignored until a larger distributor picked it up, hearing of the growing controversy already buzzing around the low-budget film. To start to understand how and why this happened, we should first examine the culture and era unto which it was released.

Butcould it be that all of this stems from a skewered perspective of the film? I argue that, indeed, this may very well be the most misunderstood film of all time. Critics unanimously appraised it as being utterly worthless, irredeemable trash, and were it not for the curiosity of movie-goers to see just what this vile, offensive flick actually was about, the film would have been assuredly erased from the history books of cinema. Over the years its reputation grew as a sick and depraved film that was boycotted by feminist groups and venomously criticised as encouraging violence against women. It was banned in more countries than it was allowed, including Canada, Australia and Great Britain, and was almost never released on video, being part of the UKs infamous Video Nasty collection in the 1980s. The films plot is basic: a single woman, vacationing in the woods, is attacked and raped by a gang of men, and when she recovers she exacts her revenge on them. Released in the time of the explosion of shocker and exploitation flicks in the late 70s, the film featured graphic violence and a 45 minute rape scene which is the main focus of the movie.

1978s ' I Spit On Your Grave' remains to this day one of the most controversial films ever made, and certainly one of the most hated. (A nearly three year old OWF film article, resurrected for our 31 Days of Horror and also to supplement Adam Rayner's review of the new Blu-ray transfer and our Ten Questions With Director Meir Zacahri).