Rewind Remake: I Spit on Your Grave (1978)

Director, Meir Zarchi offered us a classic film with a common theme: revenge! 1978's "I Spit on Your Grave" is a cult classic from the world of exploitation cinema. In the film, a young novelist moves from New York to a cabin in the woods in-order to finish her book; however, she gains the unwanted attention of some local men who attack and rape her... repeatedly... oh! and they destroy her manuscript; as a young writer this would but absolutely gut retching. After she recovers, she systematically hunts down and violently murders each of the men who violated her in a roaring rampage of revenge and quickly learn why "no jury in America would ever convict her!"

Because of the graphic and explicit violence, the movie was banned in some countries; in the U.S., the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) went to federal court in 1984 to seek an X rating on the movie. According to the suit, the producers allegedly added more sexually explicit content after the film initially received an R rating. In addition to the extreme rape and murder-based violence, the movie is notable for prompting Roger Ebert to write in 1980 that seeing "I Spit on Your Grave" was "one of the most depressing experiences of my life."

This cult film leaves you feeling very ill indeed; the visuals have a dramatic affect on the audience, similar to the sickening Cannibal Holocaust (1980) which has a very real feel to its dark themes.

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