History Film / ISpitOnYourGrave

* ChekovsGun: While jogging Jennifer comes across a cabin, and later sees some bottle of lye in a shed. It is later revealed she took refuge and nursed her wounds in the cabin. She also kills her rapists there, one of them with the lye.

RogerEbert hates this film.

Roger Ebert [[FMinusMinus doesn't like the remake, either.]] The same will probably be true for its upcoming sequel (yes, they are making one).

* AssShove: Sheriff Storch anally rapes Jennifer. She pays him back violently by sodomizing him with a shotgun, [[spoiler: and gets Matthew to fire it, while it's still pointing at his ass]].

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In the remake, Jennifer throws herself off a peer to deny her rapists to right to kill her as well. Though she lives.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge

* Asshove: Sheriff Storch anally rapes Jennifer. She sodomizes him with a shotgun, [[spoiler: and gets Matthew to fire it, while it's still pointing at his ass]].

* DirtyCoward: Johnny pisses himself durning Jennifer's revenge. She reacts with extreme disgust, commenting even the other men didn't do this.

* EyeScream: In the remake, one of Jennifer's rapists -- who has a distinct voyeuristic bent -- films the attack. In her revenge kill, puts hooks through his eyelids. She later spreads fish guts across his face, leading to crows eating his eyes.
* FanDisservice: If the rape scenes from either the original or the remake arouse you, or you find the full body shots of the naked, battered, dirt-covered Jennifer even the least bit erotic, then we'd like to ask you to turn yourself in to the nearest pyschiatric facility and get some help.

* RapeAndRevenge: Probably the definitive example.

Roger Ebert [[FMinusMinus doesn't like the remake, either.]] The same will probably be true for the upcoming sequel (yes, they are making one).

Roger Ebert [[FMinusMinus doesn't like the remake, either.]]

* IHaveYourWife: In the 2010 remake, Jennifer captures Sheriff Storch's daughter to flush him out.

* RapeAndRevenge: probably the definitive example.

* EyeScream: In the remake, one of Jennifer's rapists -- who has a distinct voyeuristic bent -- films the attack. In her revenge kill, Jennifer goes for the eyes.

* FanService: The posters and the DVD cases for the original film depict Jennifer walking around in a torn up shirt and panties -- and the poster design for the remake arguably looks even more sexualised.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Jennifer had to become a CompleteMonster in order to get her revenge. In the remake, her whole demeanor post-rape changes to show that the assault she endured left her dead inside.

Also known as ''Day of the Woman'', ''I Spit on Your Grave'' is an infamous 1978 grindhouse rape-and-revenge {{exploitation film}} about a young, attractive aspiring writer from New York named Jennifer Hills who rents a riverside cabin [[DontGoInTheWoods out in the woods]] so she can work on her first novel in peace only to catch the eye of four local rednecks - Johnny, Andy, Stanley and Matthew, who appears to be mentally handicapped - who the next day harass Jennifer while she is out sunbathing and then at night when she is in bed, and the day after that pull her ashore while she is in her boat and then proceed to rape her. Repeatedly. In a number of different ways. These scenes constitute some of the lengthiest, most brutal, and most realistic and hard-to-watch rape scenes in cinematic history. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also mock and rip up her novel]].

The four then depart, but in a mind-numbing lapse of judgment (they ''are'' ignorant hicks), they order Matthew, the mentally-handicapped one who previously had shown some affection for Jennifer and been reluctant to participate in the rapes, to go back and finish her off. Matthew cannot bring himself to do it, so he instead just smears some blood on the knife to make it look like he did. Consequently, Jennifer recovers, and over the next few days, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge collects her dues]]. First, she seduces Matthew and hangs him from a tree. Then, she holds Johnny at gunpoint, but then decides to invite him back to her house where she takes a bath with him, castrates him with a kitchen knife and leaves him to bleed to death. Finally, she swims out to Andy and Stanley's boat and pushes them overboard, and then axes one in the back and disembowels the other with the propeller, [[IronicEcho telling him as he pleads for mercy beforehand what he had told her whilst he was raping her earlier;]] [[OneLiner "Suck it, bitch!"]], at which point the credits roll and the movie ends.

The movie was directed by Meir Zarchi, who reportedly got the idea for it after assisting a rape victim in Central Park. The role of Jennifer was played by Camille Keaton, grand-niece of BusterKeaton and Meir Zarchi's wife at the time. Is one of the films classified as a "[[VideoNasties video nasty]]."

A {{remake}} was made in 2010, which adds a new character, Sheriff Storch. Roger Ebert is [[FMinusMinus not too fond of that film, either.]] Aside from the character of Sheriff Storch, the most notable stylistic difference to the original is that the middle act of the film follows the gang of rapists rather than Jennifer. The film has a montage of them going on with their lives before strange little creepy things start happening, ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' style, making them all edgy and paranoid and worried that either someone knows what they did or somebody within the gang has turned on the others.

!!''ISpitOnYourGrave'' provides examples of:

* AllMenArePerverts / ImAManICantHelpIt: When Jennifer holds Johnny at gunpoint he tries to justify his raping of her with these arguments. At first it appears to dissuade her... as he finds out, it doesn't...
* BloodFromTheMouth: Averted, she's badly injured but not dying.
* BreakTheCutie: Done to the utter brutal extreme.
* ChickLit: Jennifer is an author of this.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster says she murders five guys. But in the synopsis, she kills four. What?
** At least in the remake, they added a fifth character.
* DirtyCop: Sheriff Storch in the remake.
* TheDitz: Matthew (He's supposed to be mentally retarded, but still...). Not that the other rapists turn out to be a great deal smarter; first ordering the one person who had shown some reluctance to do these things to Jennifer to go and kill her and then one of them accepting an invitation to hop in her car and take a bath with her DESPITE the things he had formerly done to her and DESPITE that seconds earlier she had held him at gunpoint. Ah well, [[TooDumbToLive anyone who's seen the movie or read this article knows what happens to him]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Johnny seems to really love his children and it is kind of heartbreaking that his wife comforting hugs their son while waiting for him to return. It really does suck for them that their father is a rapist.
* ExploitationFilm: And HOW.
* EyeScream: In the remake one of Jennifer's rapists films the attack and has a very distinct voyeuristic bent. In her revenge kill, Jennifer goes for the eyes.
* FanDisservice: Both the original and the remake. If the rape scenes arouse you, or you find the following full body shots of the naked, battered, bleeding, dirt-covered Jennifer remotely erotic, then you may be a potential threat to society.
* FanService: The posters and the DVD cases depicting the lead girl walking around in a torn up shirt and panties. The poster design for the remake is arguably even more sexualised.

* GroinAttack: Have you not discerned what happens to Johnny yet?
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: It's hard to argue that Jennifer doesn't become a CompleteMonster in order to get revenge. In the remake, her whole demeanor changes, showing that she's become dead inside.

* IronicEcho: "Suck it, bitch!" The remake raises the number of lines that get an ironic echo to about a dozen.
* KarmicDeath: In the remake, Jennifer's revenge upon each of her rapists very specifically reflects the exact manners in which they tormented, degraded and violated her.
* KickTheDog: While it very much pales in comparison to what ''else'' they did to her, the rapists mock and rip up the novel that Jennifer was writing.
* MostWritersAreWriters: Jennifer.
* NotQuiteDead: Played with more overtly in the remake, but in the original also the rapists hope if not completely believe that Jennifer didn't survive the attack.
* OneLiner: The twice aforementioned closing line.
* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: Poor, misguided, overeager Matthew.
* PunchClockVillain: Sheriff Storch in the remake, who has a loving wife and daughter, with another baby on the way.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: In spades.
* TheToothHurts: In a torture scene.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyEsbTb8Gb0 The trailer]] virtually gives away the entire plot. And repeats I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE about five times, presumably because they don't have anything more to show.

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* DesignatedHero: Yes, she was raped. That was bad. She should go to the fucking police and get these men behind bars and get therapy. NOT turn into a psychopathic, revenge-driven sadist. Especially to the guy who basically saved her miserable life.

Also known as ''Day of the Woman'', ''I Spit on Your Grave'' is an infamous 1978 grindhouse Rape and revenge {{exploitation film}} about a young, attractive aspiring writer from New York named Jennifer Hills who rents a riverside cabin [[DontGoInTheWoods out in the woods]] so she can work on her first novel in peace only to catch the eye of four local rednecks - Johnny, Andy, Stanley and Matthew, who appears to be mentally handicapped - who the next day harass Jennifer while she is out sunbathing and then at night when she is in bed, and the day after that pull her ashore while she is in her boat and then proceed to rape her. Repeatedly. In a number of different ways. These scenes constitute some of the lengthiest, most brutal, and most realistic and hard-to-watch rape scenes in cinematic history. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also mock and rip up her novel]].

* RapeAsDrama: The whole point of the movie.

Also known as ''Day of the Woman'', ''I Spit on Your Grave'' is an infamous 1978 grindhouse RapeAndRevenge {{exploitation film}} about a young, attractive aspiring writer from New York named Jennifer Hills who rents a riverside cabin [[DontGoInTheWoods out in the woods]] so she can work on her first novel in peace only to catch the eye of four local rednecks - Johnny, Andy, Stanley and Matthew, who appears to be mentally handicapped - who the next day harass Jennifer while she is out sunbathing and then at night when she is in bed, and the day after that pull her ashore while she is in her boat and then proceed to rape her. Repeatedly. In a number of different ways. These scenes constitute some of the lengthiest, most brutal, and most realistic and hard-to-watch rape scenes in cinematic history. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also mock and rip up her novel]].

* RapeAndRevenge: One of the classics of the genre.

Also known as ''Day of the Woman'', ''I Spit on Your Grave'' is an infamous 1978 grindhouse RapeAndRevenge {{exploitation film}} about a young, attractive aspiring writer from New York named Jennifer Hills who rents a riverside cabin [[DontGoInTheWoods out in the woods]] so she can work on her first novel in peace only to catch the eye of four local rednecks - Johnny, Andy, Stanley and Matthew, who appears to be mentally handicapped - who the next day harass Jennifer while she is out sunbathing and then at night when she is in bed, and the day after that pull her ashore while she is in her boat and then proceed to rape her. Repeatedly. In a number of different ways. These scenes constituting some of the lengthiest, most brutal, and most realistic and hard to watch rape scenes in cinema history. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also mock and rip up her novel]].

The four then depart, but in a mind-numbing lapse of judgment (they ''are'' ignorant hicks), order Matthew, the mentally-handicapped one who previously had shown some affection for Jennifer and been reluctant to participate in the rapes, to go back and finish her off. Matthew is unable to do it, so he instead just smears some blood on the knife to make it look like he did. Consequently, Jennifer recovers, and over the next few days, [[RevengeAgainstMen collects her dues]]. First, she seduces Matthew and hangs him from a tree. Then, she holds Johnny at gunpoint, but then decides to invite him back to her house where she takes a bath with him, castrates him with a kitchen knife and leaves him to bleed to death. Finally, she swims out to Andy and Stanley's boat and pushes them overboard, and then axes one in the back and disembowels the other with the propeller, [[IronicEcho telling him as he pleads for mercy beforehand what he had told her whilst he was raping her earlier;]] [[OneLiner "Suck it, bitch!"]], at which point the credits roll and the movie ends.

The movie was directed by Meir Zarchi, who reportedly got the idea for it after assisting a rape-victim in Central Park. The role of Jennifer was played by Camille Keaton, grand-niece of BusterKeaton and Meir Zarchi's wife at the time. Is one of the films classified as a "[[VideoNasties video nasty]]."

* FemmeFatale: Jennifer pulls this on Matthew and Johhny.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: It's hard to argue that Jennifer doesn't become a CompleteMonster in order to get revenge. In the remake, her whole demeanor changes, showing that she's become dead inside.

* KarmicDeath: In the remake, Jennifer's revenge on each of her rapists very specifically reflects the exact manners in which they tormented, degraded and violated her.

-->--'''Jennifer Hill'''

Infamous 1978 grindhouse RapeAndRevenge {{exploitation film}} about a young, attractive aspiring writer from New York named Jennifer Hill who rents a riverside cabin [[DontGoInTheWoods out in the woods]] so she can work on her first novel in peace only to catch the eye of four local rednecks - Johnny, Andy, Stanley and Matthew, who appears to be mentally handicapped - who the next day harass Jennifer while she is out sunbathing and then at night when she is in bed, and the day after that pull her ashore while she is in her boat and then proceed to rape her. Repeatedly. In a number of different ways. These scenes constituting some of the lengthiest, most brutal, and most realistic and hard to watch rape scenes in cinema history. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also mock and rip up her novel]].

-->--'''Jennifer'''

Infamous 1978 grindhouse rape/revenge exploitation film about a young, attractive aspiring writer from New York named Jennifer who rents a riverside cabin [[DontGoInTheWoods out in the woods]] so she can work on her first novel in peace only to catch the eye of four local rednecks - Johnny, Andy, Stanley and Matthew, who appears to be mentally handicapped - who the next day harass her while she is out sunbathing and then at night when she is in bed, and the day after that pull her ashore while she is in her boat and then proceed to rape her. Repeatedly. In a number of different ways. These scenes constituting some of the lengthiest, most brutal, and most realistic and hard to watch rape scenes in cinema history. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also mock and rip up her novel]].

The movie was directed by Meir Zarchi, who reportedly got the idea for it after assisting a rape-victim in Central Park. The role of Jennifer was played by Camille Keaton, grand-niece of BusterKeaton and Meir Zarchi's wife at the time. Is one of the films classified as a "[[VideoNasties video nasty]]".

* IronicEcho: "Suck it, bitch". The remake raises the number of lines that get an ironic echo to about a dozen.

A {{remake}} was made in 2010, which adds a new character, Sheriff Storch. Roger Ebert is [[FMinusMinus not too fond of that film, either.]] Aside from the character of Sheriff Storch, the most notable stylistic difference to the original is that the middle act of the film follows the gang of rapists rather than Jennifer. The film has a montage of them going on with their lives before strange little creepy things start happening, IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer style, making them all edgy and paranoid and worried that either someone knows what they did or somebody within the gang has turned on the others.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: It's hard to argue that Jennifer doesn't become a CompleteMonster in order to get revenge. In the remake, her whole demeanor changes, showing that she's become dead inside.

* He Who Fights Monsters: It's hard to argue that Jennifer doesn't become a CompleteMonster. In the remake, her whole demeanor changes, showing that she's become dead inside.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/specials/is-i-spit-on-your-grave-really-a-misunderstood-feminist-film.php See here]].

** But very few people other than the above actually like the movie. So...

* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Daughter]]: In the 2010 remake. Jennifer uses this technique to flush out Sheriff Storch.

* [[VideoNasties Video Nasty]]