A couple of trailers. Can finally embed again.
Here's John Carpenter's The Ward
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Wes Craven's Scream 4
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Rubber
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Also
A pretty good article on I Spit On Your Grave including it's remake.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... your-grave
I was wrong about I Spit On Your Grave
The rape-revenge horror I Spit on Your Grave is less exploitative than sentimental fantasies about justice
Julie Bindel
There was a time, in the early 80s, when I seemed to be on a picket every week. One of the best was that against the Leeds cinema at which "video nasties" were being screened ג the worst of which, we feminists argued, was I Spit on Your Grave (ISOYG), a rape-revenge-horror movie depicting the violent sexual torture of a young woman. "Rape is not entertainment," we chanted.
On hearing that the film has been remade, and remembering the controversy the original caused, I watched the new version with trepidation. The director, I was assured, has given the remake "strong feminist overtones".
It is still truly shocking. It shows, in detail and at length, the gang rape of Jennifer, a sexually confident young woman from New York City who moves to the country to live in an isolated log cabin while writing a novel. Local men ג unappealing rednecks ג spy on her while she sunbathes in a tiny bikini, before capturing, humiliating and raping her over and over again.
Eventually Jennifer recovers, tracks the rapists down one-by-one and exacts the most delicious revenge on them. One has his penis hacked off and bleeds to death, another is garrotted, and so on. It is nothing if not an exploitation movie.
Why then, do I still believe both versions of ISOYG to be more feminist ג albeit in a purely accidental way ג than The Accused, the much-lauded 1988 film starring Jodie Foster?
Feminists hailed The Accused, partly because the story served to debunk a number of pernicious rape myths. Foster's character Sarah is a party animal who dirty dances with a man in a bar and is raped by him and two others over a pinball machine in full view of their cheering mates. With the help of a determined prosecution lawyer and a decent man who was in the bar and decides to give evidence, the men who cheered the rapists on are convicted amid dramatic courtroom scenes.
The film is based on a true story, but with a somewhat different outcome. In 1983 a woman was gang-raped on a pool table in New Bedford, Massachusetts, while onlookers cheered. It went to trial amid tales of the victim's previous sexual history and rumours of drunkenness. The trial was televised and the victim's identity became known, resulting in her being vilified by almost the entire town. The rapists were convicted but the onlookers acquitted. A huge march through the community was organised to celebrate the acquittals and the woman was, in effect, run out of town.
The feminist movement was at its height when ISOYG was made in 1978, with a plethora of conferences and marches through cities protesting about rape, domestic violence and unequal pay; and arguably its weakest at the time of The Accused, when Thatcherism had more or less destroyed the left and weakened feminism alongside it. In a way ISOYG was a revenge-rape-revenge story, perhaps serving as an unconscious warning to women about getting too uppity. The Accused was a fairytale about how we would like things to be, but had failed to make happen during the glory days of the women's movement.
Whereas The Accused serves as a warning to men who do nothing to stop rape, the punishment they receive in the film is highly unlikely to happen in reality. The revenge meted out in ISOYG, however, is something men should fear. It does not rely on the law of the land, but on a woman being pushed too far and deciding enough is enough. I sat through a murder trial in the 1990s in which a woman stabbed and killed the man who had raped her child. The jury, against the directions of the judge, acquitted her.
I still believe in our criminal justice system and am against vigilante attacks, but the fact remains that the majority of men who rape women get away with it. If I were gang-raped, aware as I am of the near impossibility of winning justice through the courts, I would not be sitting here fantasising about being saved by crusading lawyers and nice men.
I stand by the pickets against the video-nasty genre 30 years ago, but on reflection I was wrong about ISOYG being harmful. It was and still is exploitative, but at least it does not present the criminal justice system as a friend to women.
If rape remains as easy to get away with as it is at present, films in which women get even through the legal system will become as unrealistic as ISOYG. But I know which one will give me, and many other women, the most comfort.
I Spit on Your Grave is in cinemas from 21 January
@ Rubber. Wes Craven continues to make me want to forget anything he's done in the last 15 years, save for the original Scream.