# Has anyone else seen "Spit on Your Grave" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612 "2011-02-08T03:05:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/1 "2011-02-08T03:05:36Z")
Watched it last night - VERY highly recommended, but be warned - it’s gross. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/2 "2011-02-08T03:10:46Z")
The original or that new one? So, would you care to elaborate on what makes it good so we have some kind of basis for liking or disliking it? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/3 "2011-02-08T03:40:06Z")
[_ **I** Spit On Your Grave_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Grave)? I saw it around 1984, I think. (ISTR renting the video.) I don’t remember anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/4 "2011-02-08T03:52:39Z")
Repulsive movie. I tried to walk out on it, but my friends wouldn’t go, so I stayed. This is another reason I tend to have few friends. By the way, this was the original movie. If it’s been remade, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised, though mercifully I don’t remember any remake. And no, you revisionists, it is NOT a pro-women movie. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/5 "2011-02-08T03:56:22Z")
It is a tough movie to watch. Listening to the director and Joe Bob Briggs commentaries, I see what they were trying to do, but all I can say is it’s a tough movie to watch. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/6 "2011-02-08T04:05:05Z")
I have never understood what made my mother think it was ok to let me rent this as a pre-teen. Yes, unfortunately I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/7 "2011-02-08T04:55:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [_ **I** Spit On Your Grave_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Grave)? > > I saw it around 1984, I think. (ISTR renting the video.) I don’t remember anything about it. No, [I Spit on Your Grave](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052937/)! Famous for a) the writer, Boris Vian, hating it when it came out, and b) him dying during the screening. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/8 "2011-02-08T05:21:11Z")
Or possibly [I Spit on Your Grave](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3zDSzULMqM), the remake… ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/9 "2011-02-08T05:51:59Z")
I saw both of them didn’t care for either. The original is slightly better than than the remake, but they’re both pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/10 "2011-02-08T05:56:13Z")
Yeah, I’ve seen the 78 version. It’s garbage. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/11 "2011-02-08T08:22:21Z")
yeah, I’ve seen the '78 version, neither a pleasant experience, nor a well crafted movie, IMHO. As far as what kind of movie the filmaker was trying to make, you can take his words at face value, or not, from the wiki: > [@](#): > > Zarchi’s inspiration and responses to criticism > In the commentary for the Millennium Edition, Zarchi said he was inspired to produce the film after helping a young woman who had been raped in New York. He tells of how a friend of his and his daughter were driving by a park when they witnessed a young woman crawling out of the bushes bloodied and naked (he later learned the young woman was taking a common shortcut to her boyfriend’s house when she was attacked). > > In the same commentary, Zarchi denied that the film was exploitative, and that the violent nature of the film was necessary to tell the story. He described actress Camille Keaton as “brave” for taking on the role.[11] ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/12 "2011-02-08T10:37:27Z")
I suggest a more uplifting alternative: _Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia._ ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/13 "2011-02-08T15:04:51Z")
My useless interjection of the day: The [girl on the cover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Grave)? That’s my buddy’s wife. No connection to the actual movie – they just did a photo shoot with her for the promo stuff. Nice butt. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/14 "2011-02-08T15:33:03Z")
I saw it in the mid-eighties at a drive-in theater. We laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/15 "2011-02-08T15:36:43Z")
I read Tipper Gore’s book “Raising PG-Rated Children in an X-Rated Society.” She goes totally off on this moviee for the scenes showing the woman’s violent revenge, but makes no comments about the actual rape scene that started it. Rape (men’s violence against women) = okay. A woman’s violence towards men = disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/16 "2011-02-08T15:51:09Z")
**I Spit On Your Grave** is one of the only horror movies I know of that women rate more highly than men. In IMDb’s ratings, women gave it an average 6.1 score, while men rated it a 5.2. Females over 45 gave an average rating of 7.3! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/17 "2011-02-08T16:03:30Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Females over 45 gave an average rating of 7.3! Well, you know how uppity those old broads can be. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/18 "2011-02-08T16:39:53Z")
When we first got a VCR, my Dad would often stop at the video store (Remember those? It was a local shop and everything!) and bring home movies for us. He knew I liked horror movies so he brought home the original I Spit on Your Grave. He put in in and we watched it. About 20 minutes in Webster’s Dictionary came in to take a picture for their entry on “awkward”. Definitely not a film to watch with your folks. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/19 "2011-02-08T16:48:21Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > About 20 minutes in Webster’s Dictionary came in to take a picture for their entry on “awkward”. Priceless! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612/20 "2011-02-08T17:02:06Z")
The movie isn’t all that well made. I did like the woman gets revenge aspect of the story. Heck, men make revenge movies all the time. Charles Bronson gets even by killing street punks in Death Wish. Clint Eastwood murders the townspeople that lynched him in Hang Them High. The mistake I Spit on Your Grave makes is the over the top explicit rape and then the bloody gore during the revenge murders. This was almost more gory then Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The story might have worked if they had made this a thriller with less explicit scenes and better actors. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-spit-on-your-grave/570612.md?page=2)