A friend gave me this link: http://jezebel.com/5594817/the-return-of-i-spit-on-your-graves-rape-and-revenge-fantasies#ixzz11Q9xj000
It's well worth a read... is about the remake of I Spit On Your Grave, the 1978 US rape-revenge flick written and directed by Meir Zarchi and starring Camille Keaton as Jennifer. As the article mentions, Carol J Clover's written about the film as more redeemable than many, but in general, the film's not really thought to promote a particularly pro-women, anti-rape agenda, as it titillates as much as it does anything else. I have a copy of it on my shelf, but haven't watched it for maybe a decade... but will watch it again some time soon, to see what I think of it now.
My gut reaction to the remake is that it will be a million times worse: the original is interesting, and is at best ambivalent in terms of its narrative (ifnot its imagery). I dread to think what the remake has done with any redeeming qualities it might have had.
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