it’s hard to overstate the seminal value of i spit on your grave. yes the dialogue is often unintelligible, yes it suffers from seventies pacing, yes i can understand why someone wouldn’t want to put themselves through that awful brutal thirty minute long rape scene.
however. to my knowledge, spit was the first time a woman got to avenge her own rape, (spawning an entire huge horror subgenre) and for my money you just can’t beat this movie for catharsis.…