Pajiba

I salute you Sir!

You know, between this and your preemptive strike against ad complaints in a post earlier, you've been quite assertive and, well, rather manly today, Rowles. I LIKE it!

Figures they would remake some piece of shit that made Roger Ebert's worst piece of shit of all time movie list.

And remakes are always worse than the originals, so it should be epic.

Guy looks like Nathan Explosion.

I'v been waiting for years for a big-budget PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE remake - especially now that the average quality of Hollywood screenwriting has dropped down to Ed Wood's level.
The fact that they remade I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE gives me hope. Maybe soon I can even see the IMAX 3-D version of PLAN 9 !

I love it when this site keeps it real.

I thought torture porn would have become passe by now?
sigh

I read the synopsis for this on apple trailers and from what I can gather, they've missed the entire point of the original. Yeah it was an exploitative rape flick but it also had a certain feminist undercurrent-the treatment of women and womens right to seek revenge etc etc blah blah.
The whole point of the original is that, though she's LEFT to die, no effort is made to actually kill the victim and the men go on about their lives as normal with knowledge but NO CONCERN that she's out there because they know in their small town, a female, spirited outsider, wont get much help from the cops. The point is, they KNOW the world is os mysogynistic that if she cries rape she'll be ignored or dismissed as a slut.

This seems to be a generic slasher revenge flick in which the rapists think she's dead, so go on with their lives thinking the terrible thing they did is covered up.
I get that times have changed and her complaint would be taken seriously but still...fucking morons.

*steps down off've feminist soapbox*

Oooo Dustin, you've been just oozing testosterone lately. Me likey, too.

My word, Mr. Rowles. What a display of alpha testosterone. I LOVE IT.

Hey everyone!! We're drawing an arbitrary line!!!

It seems silly to draw the line here, for a watered-down probably-shitty remake, when we've been watching Human Centipede trailers for months now. Where is the line, exactly? The difference in the sexuality of the two crimes? In one, she's raped, but gets "revenge" and kills her attackers, but in the other, two women have their kneecaps removed and their faces sewn to the ass of the person in front of them and forced to eat shit...

To be honest, and this may just be my ignorant self talking, they both seem pretty fucking horrible, humiliating, and degrading. I don't know that one should be included and the other shouldn't.

Granted, it's your site and you can share what you want, but I just needed to share my two cents.

Snath, the difference is easy.

The Human Centipede is grossplotation. Everything is designed to disgust the audience. The director had girls read from the script at the audition with one's head shoved up the other's ass. At a later point, the exercise was repeated, only with actresses willing to go naked. Those actresses wound up being the ones cast, as only two were really willing to go there. Of course, there's nothing wrong or offensive to women about forcing them to eat shit and only have a man communicate for them.

I Spit on Your Grave is a rape/revenge film, one of the only varieties of exploitation actually studied for academic purposes. The element of female empowerment is profound in some of the early films of the subgenre and one of the main talking points amongst serious horror circles. If you look past the brutality, there can be something more going on. It's like Cannibal Holocaust being written off as an animal-abuse film or Lars von Trier's ouvre being written off as misogynistic, ignoring any merit the films may have out of a misguided sense of principle.

Frankly, Pajiba's posted two raunchy exploitation trailers recently under the guise of "aren't Japanese films wacky?" One was even called Big Tits Zombies in 3D and was about strippers fighting zombies. The other had women attached to robotic exoskeletons by their nipples, who happen to be geishas, another form of sex symbol in Japan. The line being drawn here makes no sense when that garbage is covered. At least with an American film with a modest budget, there's a chance the actresses are protected from violation. In other countries, where films shoot on 24/7 schedules without stunt doubles, it's not as safe.

But obviously, it's the rape and revenge element that's the problem here. Though I could have sworn some of those retrospective reviews were about exploitation films as well.

Whatever. Not my website.

That's true, Robert. You make a good point.

This movie is a rehash with no consciousness for what is scary now. Getting it lopped off with sheers may have been scary 30 years ago, but Mrs. Bobbit sorta changed that since then. What's scary is the revenge lady constructs a SOUPED UP PUMP powered by a boat motor that she attaches to the guy and cranks it till his weenie EXPLODES!!...WHILE HE'S STILL ALIVE. Either that or electric paddles right to the junk!...Oooor, the vixen ties him down, attaches rope and takes off in her car. Come on....so many modern ways to detach a penis.