I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)

Katie (Jemma Dallender) is a Midwestern farm girl who is in New York and desires to be a model. She does some free photography with some Russians and winds up abducted in Russia as a sex slave. If the title of the film has "spit" in it, we can rest assure it is a graphic rape/revenge film. If you have seen any of these "spit" films, you know the plot.The film gives us some quick character buildup as Katie constructs a mouse trap from household items and then moves to the violent scenes. She can easily go into and out off a berserker mode.I loved Jemma Dallender from "Community" and it appears she will be stuck in the horror genre for awhile, which is great for us horror film lovers. She has conquered the American accent with ease, but did we really need the "You Betcha" line?I liked this film more than the other films by this name, but be warned it is graphic in its rape and abuse.DVD includes some lame deleted scenes.Perv Guide: F-bomb, rape, nudity (Jemma Dallender + male frontal), urination, torture, sexual torture. 4 stars on the rape/revenge genre film scale.

Definitely sub-par. First off, how is it that the rapist goes from being shown to looking over the model's pictures on his computer at home to just so happening to catch her out of her room, walking down the hall, at the right time, which is hardly a 30-second window? Then, he wouldn't be snapping pictures of her from across the room to wake her up because he doesn't have any immediate way to stop her from screaming, which she merely threatens to do in three seconds if he doesn't leave. Who does that?? That's really weird. Just scream, you idiot. From there, she tases him and is filled with opportunity to save herself. She could scream, beat him up, or grab a knife from the kitchen. Running out the door is a fine thing to do but she could also scream in the process. And it's pretty unrealistic how fast he recoups given how long he gets tased for.

In the 70s, there was a small film culture surrounding the exploitation of rape victims. Two movies which come to mind are "The Last House on the Left" and "I Spit On Your Grave". The first was pretty straight forward and to the point; it was not a pleasant experience to watch. "I Spit On Your Grave", sometimes known as "The Day of Woman", involves a rape victim that gets back at her tormentors. One scene which sticks out in my mind from that film is the fact she seduces one of the former assailants, and while he is in the bathtub, takes a knife after his genitals; all while opera music (or some such) is playing in the meantime. This is pretty intense, and considering it was a film from the 70s; it really was ahead of its time.I am not saying that I agree with the content depicted in the film; rather it chose to venture into something risky and seems to have gained some popularity as a result. The popularity seems to have worked, because a directory picked up the mantle to create a sequel. This movie has nothing to do with the original and is more of a spiritual successor.The movie starts out with a young model that does her own modeling work; one such hire is not interested in her work and wants to see something different. She recommends the model hire someone that does professional photography to spice up her agenda. So she does just this and the photographer towards the end of the shoot suggests that if she starts with some more 'revealing' work, that she might get her photography for free. The model is wise to his goals about selling her photographs on the Internet. She turns around and walks out from the shoot without paying and without her intended work. One of the assistants with the photographer shows up at her doorstep and returns the photos to her. He is the definition of creepy and she can't get rid of him. He shows up later in a mood and rapes her; not before her boyfriend comes over and he kills him. Things go awry and the photographers show up; turns out they are from another country and take her along for the ride. She is sold as pleasure slave in Bolivia and either raped or tortured depending on the client. She is eventually buried to meet her fate ala "Kill Bill".Much like Kill Bill, she gets out of her coffin and goes off on a rampage torturing and killing those that would violated her. Before she would even set foot at the American Embassy, she takes out each and every last one of her violators in a revenge scheme.The movie is very, very powerful – this kind of thing doesn't normally happen, and is not normally depicted in movies. Being the sequel to the forerunner, this movie had a lot to live up to and has well surpassed it. I do recommend the movie, as it shows the rare event of a woman turning on her attackers and gaining the upper hand; it is just too bad it has to be done in such a violent genre.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=8449).

The brutality to a lady in this movie is very gruesome, but, has some reality to some real life atrocities that you find on documentaries.The whole story had me very engaged and almost in total shock and tears until we got to the revenge part. I was really expecting something very brilliant on her part, something along the lines of Heath Ledger's joker, considering that she was very intelligent. It was more of a "return evil for evil; eye for an eye, hand for a hand" type of justice: anything they did to her, she did twice as bad to them.I just don't understand how those guys can be so stupid!!! If you find some girl that you just buried six feet under come back with the angriest demonic look, what do most people do??? All five of her victims just retardedly followed a girl they murdered down into a sewer just to run into the most obvious revenge trap; very unrealistic! For the chick: how do you walk into your house, find a break in, hear somebody downstairs and just go do down there??? No scream, no police even though you're in cahoots with them...Small mistakes in the murders. The guy with the infection had boyels of the black plague but no fever??? How did she pick up guys twice her size and chain them standing up, a fat guy on top of a bed, drag a lady to the other side of the sewer.I'm going on a rant, but, this movie could've been so much better.