Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Cold

Monday Movie Review - I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE

First off, let me be frank about this movie.  It's brutal, but it's realistic.  After watching it, I watched the special features, and I was very impressed by the bluntness of the actors and how they felt about the subject matter, and how they handled it.  I was more impressed by the fact that there was a "safety word", in the event the acting became too difficult to accept.

This is not a remake, per se, of the original movie.  The plot is similar, yes, but the ways the woman gets her revenge are fresh and extremely horrific.  This movie will make you squirm, as well as cheer.

Synopsis:  A woman rents a cabin in the backwoods in order to do some writing (she's an author.)  A group of men who run the only gas station for miles around end up challenging each other, declaring the woman to be a city whore who deserves everything they'll dish out to her (although the woman has not absolutely nothing to rate this.)

They end up raping her repeatedly, until she escapes and tries to drown herself in a nearby river.  What follows is her revenge on these men, with each of them getting their individual punishments that fit their own particular crime.

A very thought-provoking film, I highly highly recommend that you:

Monday Movie Review - THE HORSEMAN

This Australian flick has been around for a while, but it's just been released in the U.S.  I'm glad it finally made it.

A father discovers his daughter was drugged and raped, and left to die after the four men who filmed themselves doing it to her released the tape as a porno flick.  A copy of the movie is sent to him anonymously, and he sets off to punish the men responsible.

The brutality is often off-camera, but your imagination makes up for it. This is no "professional" going after the bad guys a la Liam Neeson, in Taken, but an average joe who has nothing left to live for but revenge.  It makes for very realistic fight scenes when these men scrabble for any handhold they can get on each other.

The movie is not so much in-your-face, as it makes you feel like you're right there witnessing everything.  Stark.  Well acted.  Believable.

Which is why my recommendation is a hearty:

and get a gently used copy for your library.  You may not rewatch it countless times, but you'll want one for yourself.