History Film / ISpitOnYourGrave

* ArtisticLicenseCars: In the remake, Jennifer is able to hide in the backseat of a police car and knock out the sheriff while he is in the driver's seat. This is the exact thing that partitions between the front and back seats of police vehicles are there to prevent.

* ArtisticLicenseCars: In the remake, Jennifer is able to hide in the backseat of a police car and knock out the sheriff while he is in the driver's seat. This is the very reason that all police cars are equipped with a partition between the front and back seats.

ArtisticLicenseCars: In the remake, Jennifer is able to hide in the backseat of a police car and knock out the sheriff while he is in the driver's seat. This is the very reason that all police cars are equipped with a partition between the front and back seats.

* DrivenToSuicide: In the third film, Oscar relates that his daughter was spurred to kill herself over her rapist going free because the physical evidence against him went missing, and his lawyers having smeared as a [[SlutShaming slut]] who was "asking for it".

* 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 sexualized.

In 2019, 40 years after the original, a direct-to-video sequel titled ''I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu'' was released. It revolves around Jennifer Hills, after being acquitted of the revenge she enacted on her rapists, is now a successful author after writing a book of her experience, and has a daughter of her own named Christy. But soon both Jennifer and Christy are kidnapped by the families of Jennifer’s rapists, who are planning to enact some revenge of their own.

AscendedExtra: Johnny's wife appears in one scene in the original film. In ''Deja vu'', she's the BigBad.

* BigBad: Johnny comes up with the idea to rape Jennifer and acts as the de facto leader of the gang.

* DrivenToSuicide: In the third film, Oscar relates that his daughter was smeared by her rapist's lawyers for supposed [[SlutShaming promiscuity]], then he walked free when the DNA evidence went missing. This spurred her to kill herself.

* {{Gorn}}: Johnny's death in the original, all the rapists in the remake.

There was a pseudo-sequel called ''Savage Vengeance'', shot in 1988 but unreleased until 1993. A 2010 {{remake}} adds a new character, Sheriff Storch, and a stylistic difference from the original: the middle act of the film follows the gang of rapists rather than Jennifer by showing a montage of the rednecks going on with their lives before strange things begin to happen to them (in a way reminscient of ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''). The effect of this change makes it look as if each redneck fears that someone knows what they did -- or that one of them has turned on the others.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Johnny seems to really love his children, and when his wife comforts her son while waiting for him to return, it does seem a bit heartbreaking -- until you remember that Johnny raped (and nearly killed) a woman.
** Heartbreaking from the innocent children's eyes who know nothing of their father's evil, unlike the viewer.
** The sheriff in the remake also has a wife and a daughter, with another baby on the way. He seems to genuinely love them.
** The traffickers from the second film are brothers who clearly care for one another and their mother [[spoiler: (who is a victim of trafficking herself and now is complicit in their crimes)]] cares for them as well.

* BuriedAlive: Happens to Katie in the second film. [[spoiler:She gets out when the ground below the coffin breaks into a sewer system]].

* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Near the end of ''Deja Vu'', it’s revealed that Jennifer’s daughter Christy is this. Her father was none other than Johnny.]]
* ChurchgoingVillain: The Sheriff in the remake repeatedly mentions going to church with his family, and claims he's God-fearing (but of course it's pretty hollow given his crimes in the film).

** In the second film, [[spoiler: Katie was able to escape the basement she was held in and talked to the police. Sadly, Kirill left her in the hands of Ana, a woman he knows from Church,]] [[spoiler: who turns out to be the rapists' mother. She leads her right back to the very basement she escaped from.]]

* NeverMyFault:
** In the third film, [[spoiler: despite killing three people and being responsible for Oscar's death, Jennifer blames the police for their incompetence while investigating Marla's murder.]]
** In the fourth film, the antagonists just won't accept the true nature of the four men who died and want revenge.
* NeverTrustATitle: The movie does, in fact, not contain any graves or any spitting thereon, though Jennifer's utter hatred for her rapists is such that the metaphor definitely qualifies.

* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: [[spoiler: Averted in the third film. Jennifer actually is guilty of what she was brought in for. But she wisely invokes her right to remain silent and asks for a lawyer when it becomes clear that she's a suspect. She may be crazy but she's not stupid.]]

* RealityEnsues: For a horror film, there's actually quite a bit that's TruthInTelevision
** In the first film:

*** [[spoiler: No matter how careful you are to leave no traces behind, killing two people (and attempting to kill a third) that have clear connections to the Rape Support group you're a member of is guaranteed to bring the police right to you.]]

*** [[spoiler: The lead investigator tries to bluff Jennifer into confessing after questioning her about the incident in the alley. Jennifer wisely clams up, asks for a lawyer and gets out on bail. Just because police say "we've got you" doesn't really mean that they do. Plus, her answers to her questions about what lead to being attacked in the alley are perfectly plausible and reasonable.]]

* ChekhovsGun: 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.

** In the third film, [[spoiler: Jennfier's past comes back to bite her in the ass, though she does manage to avoid life in prison or the death penalty due to lack of evidence, her own clear insanity and a sympathetic Detective who shoots her; stopping her from committing a murder in front of him.]]

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

** The traffickers from the second film are brothers who clearly care for one another and their mother [[spoiler: who is a victim of trafficking herself and now is complicit in their crimes]] cares for them as well.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Matthew can not bring himself to kill Jennifer, and even seems disturbed by some of the things his friends do to her, not that he does (or can do) anything to help.

* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In the third film, [[spoiler: Jennifer is kidnapping, torturing and murdering people she perceives as rapists and child molesters while blaming the police for caring more about the rapists than their victims. Yet the police are entirely right to investigate the murders and Jennifer clearly has no business dispensing "Justice".]]

* MostWritersAreWriters: Jennifer

** In the second film is Father Dimov, a priest [[spoiler: who confronts Katie after catching her breaking into the Church. He gives her clothing, food and a Bible and says she's welcome at the Church. He recognizes that she has been a victim of abuse and is nothing short of kind, patient and respectful.]]

** Zig-zagged in the second film. [[spoiler: After Katie escapes the first time, a uniformed police officer approaches her relatively quickly and Kirill interviews her. It's somewhat played straight in that Kirill doesn't quite believe Katie's story and turns her over to a friend from Church who he thought was a counselor but was actually the mother of Katie's rapists without any verification. Fortunately, he realizes his mistake later on, calls the US Embassy and saves Katie's life in the end.]]

*** [[spoiler: Saying you're sorry for raping, torturing and trying to kill your victim doesn't really cut it. In Jennifer's words: "It's just not GOOD ENOUGH!"]]

*** [[spoiler: Just because the court orders you to attend therapy doesn't mean it'll make you better as Jennifer demonstrates after her last session.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: What the above leads to on Jennifer's part, and the main focus of the movie.

* TookALevelInBadass: After being gang raped and left for dead, both Jennifer and Kate does this.

* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:At the end of the fourth film, it’s revealed that Jennifer’s daughter Christy is this. Her father was none other than Johnny.]]

** The antagonists from Deja Vu are this in spades.

* NeverMyFault: In the third film, [[spoiler: despite killing three people and being responsible for Oscar's death, Jennifer blames the police for their incompetence while investigating Marla's murder.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: In the third film, [[spoiler: Jennifer is kidnapping, torturing and murdering people she perceives as rapists and child molesters while blaming the police for caring more about the rapists than their victims. Yet the police are entirely right to investigate the murders and Jennifer clearly has no business dispensing "Justice".]]

* TooDumbToLive: Chief. [[spoiler: Sure, a woman in a sexy red dress with clear bruising on her face, who seems slightly off-kilter offering you a blowjob is perfectly legit.]]