It’s October and it’s Halloween season. All types of ghosts, ghouls, and goblins share the night as the march to the end of the month draws closer. Now it’s time to scare up some interest with a recent release on the DIE-section, featuring a remake of a infamous exploitation film, that features torture, rape and murder!
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Um, Boo?
The Story
Katie is trying to make it in the cutthroat world of modeling. When she innocently accepts an offer to have new photos taken for her portfolio, the experience quickly turns into an unthinkable nightmare of rape, torture, and kidnapping. When a twist of fate finally frees her from her captors – beaten, battered, bruised, and broken, she will have to tap into the darkest places of the human psyche to not only survive her ordeal, but to ultimately find the strength to exact her brutal revenge
The Cast
Jemma Dallender as Katie. Aside from some smaller roles, this is her first big role in film.
Yavor Baharov as Georgy. Appeared in stuff like TILT, DOUBLE IDENTITY, and FAITH LOVE AND WHISKEY.
Joe Absolom as Ivan. Appeared on various TV shows like EASTENDERS, HATFIELDS & MCCOYS, DOC MARTIN, and VINCENT.
Aleksandar Aleksiev as Nicolay. Done various shorts, as well as showing up in films like the upcoming JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT.
The Dissection
DEAR. GOD.
In lieu of still shots from the movie, I present cute kitten images instead.
So, this is a sequel to the 2010 remake of the 1978 exploitation film I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. And, if you need to know, you really don’t need to have seen any of the other films before you watch this, as they’re all self contained.
So….yeah.
While the original movies was pretty damn brutal to watch, and the remake was a bit less so, this one is just plain mean. And I know how much of an understatement that sounds, but there’s an explanation. The violence here is what could be argued is on par with the series in the sense of graphic violence and hard to watch scenes, but it does seem to get to the point of it being more of a spectacle for an audience than anything related to the characters’ actions or something related to the story. It doesn’t help when the scenes are repeated in other death scenes, revenge being surprisingly unoriginal. There’s also not much in the way of performances, and
Also, the story kind of goes all REINDEER GAMES in a way, going through various twist after twist until it eventually loses a lot of the impact at the end and causes more tedium than interest. It goes like a grab bag of various horrifying moments, tied together with bits of story, and thrown out there. All in all, not very well structured.
As for the DVD, the only thing you would be missing is deleted scenes. So, if you have a service that lets you watch a digital copy or a movie service, you wouldn’t be missing much if you went with that over the boxed copy.
Look at the kitty! What is he doing with that box! Cats have no need for boxes!
The Verdict
Kittens are cute.
Also, unless you already know what to expect from the series and genre, stick with the more fantastical horror and scary films. If you do check it out, expect a dose of the same with some different scenery and players and a bit less impactful.