I Spit On Your Remake

Posted by Robert Fure (robert@filmschoolrejects.com) on June 5, 2008

News came today that the cult classic video-nasty I Spit on Your Grave was going to get the remake treatment. The original followed a woman on the warpath of revenge after she was brutally and savagely beaten, raped, and left for dead. Why remake it? Why not. Producer Paul Hertzberg had this to say about the second go-round:

“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…”

Of course my initial knee-jerk reaction was the clever title of this article - I Spit on Your Remake. But then I remembered my previous Boiling Point about “classic films” being remade and I remembered that the original kind of sucked. It’s a pretty low budget without much real cinematic value to the film making itself. The idea of the film is what was good, not really the execution. This is one of those films ripe for a remake.

The original 1978 flick, also called Day of the Woman, featured prolonged gang rape sequences and some squirmy moments of violence. While I’d like to see some of the explicitness continue, even today’s R-Rated films are a bit more tame, at least when it comes to rape. Otherwise, I think that there is a good, gross, violent, and disturbing genre flick in here. The kind that says “Fuck you” to Eli Roth’s repetitive and less then disturbing Hostel’s and a big harsh kick to the nuts of PG-13 horror.

Color me red with bloody excitement for this.

Source: FilmStalker

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