Just What the World Needs: An 'I Spit on Your Grave' Remake
Filed under: Horror, Remakes and Sequels
Roger Ebert once referred to it as "a movie so sick, reprehensible and contemptible that I can hardly believe it's playing in respectable theaters," but it sure looks like Meir Zarchi's infamous 1978 grindhouse flick I Spit On Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman) is about to get the remake treatment. Accorrding to Variety, CineTel Films is planning a theatrical release for their new gob of Spit, which producer Paul Hertzberg is approaching very artistically: "After seeing what was done with an R rating on films like Saw and Hostel, we think we can modernize this story, be competitive with what this marketplace expects and not have to aim for an NC-17 or X rating." But hey, how does one "modernize" gang rape, anyway?For the sane folks who've never seen I Spit On Your Grave, it is indeed about four backwoods scumbags who rape a young woman (more than once) before she bounces back with some of the harshest vengeance you've ever seen. (Butcher knives don't belong in bathtubs! Ouch!) Personally, I think it's a seriously trashy film, but one you've sorta gotta "survive" at least once if you're a horror freak. (And if you do rent the DVD, it comes with a Joe Bob Briggs audio commentary that's seriously excellent.) When contacted by Variety, Mr. Ebert simply hoped that the remake would be better than the original. Heh. Good ol' Rog. (Read that full review right here, by the way.)
Thanks to BD.com.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-04-2008 @ 9:57AM
Kurt said...
Maybe they could make a crossover film with "There Will Be Blood" called "I Spit in Your Milkshake!"
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6-04-2008 @ 10:14AM
kevjohn said...
I've already seen a low-budget remake of this called "I Spit on Your Corpse, I Piss on Your Grave". I wish I was making that up.
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6-04-2008 @ 10:42AM
techstar25 said...
There are three reasons to remake a film:
1) The original was awesome and successful but in a foreign language, like [REC] for instance.
2) The original was a huge success (either cult or box office) but it was many years ago (Escape from New York, Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
3) The original had a great premise, but didn't capture its full potential (Death Race 2000, Dolph Lundren's Punisher)
"I Spit on Your Grave" is none of these.
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6-04-2008 @ 12:02PM
Midnight13 said...
Wes Craven essentially made the same film, "Last House on the Left". Apparently that's getting the remake treatment as well. Movies like these belong in the era where they came from, 1970's. These movies were cheap and unpolised, and that is a big part of what made them so scary/distrubing. Making these films now comes off as more insensitive and crass.
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6-04-2008 @ 12:07PM
NP said...
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4) There's a trend in cinema that an older film could turn a profit on, and it's easier to remake something that has name recognition than to try to get an original idea off the ground.
New exploitation cinema, while maybe on a downward spiral from where it was a couple of years ago, is still popular, and revenge cinema, in particular, is a pretty sure bet. You don't think this remake will get asses in the seats? Of course it will. Was there not also talk of a Last House on the Left remake at some point? Rape/revenge films aren't such distant cousins to the Hostels and Saws in the family of horror...
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6-04-2008 @ 6:04PM
M*A*S*H*E*D said...
CineTelFilms are producers of Skinemax soft core porn...no seriously...they are...
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