In perhaps the most unlikely franchise in horror history, I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine is, despite its number, a direct sequel to the 2010 remake of Meir Zarachi’s notorious 1978 rape-revenger. With flashbacks to her ordeal throughout, Jennifer (Sarah Butler, reprising her role) has rechristened herself as Angela, part of her … Continue reading I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine (2015)
To the surprise of no one, I Spit on Your Grave 2 tells essentially the same story as its 2010 predecessor (itself a remake of the notorious 1978 grindhouse classic): Pretty girl gets kidnapped, raped and left for dead; pretty girl doesn’t die; pretty girl gets revenge on her captors/rapists. And yet, returning director Steven … Continue reading I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)
The original 1978 I Spit on Your Grave — aka Day of the Woman — is one of those films you either get or you don’t. Those who don’t have an understandable tendency to call it one of the worst films ever made, while those of us who do passionately defend it as a misunderstood … Continue reading I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Caseen Gaines’ We Don’t Need Roads isn’t the only current behind-the-scenes book on a hit comedy trilogy born in the 1980s. Jonathan Knight weighs in with The Making of Major League, and you can definitely tell it’s penned by a sportswriter. True to its subtitle of A Juuuust a Bit Inside Look at the Classic … Continue reading Reading Material: 4 Books with Which You Can Declare Your Independence from the Heat
Had Grave Encounters come with traditional opening credits, I might not have gone beyond that point. Here’s why: The film is written, edited and directed by “The Vicious Brothers.” Embarrassed to affix real names to it? Or was “The Extreme Brothers” taken, bro? A Paranormal Activity-type flick of near-startling inactivity, Grave Encounters begins on a … Continue reading Grave Encounters (2011)