I Spit on Your Grave
Short description
Jennifer Hills, a writer from the city, takes a cabin in a remote rural area so she can work on her novel in peace. Her presence draws the attention of men from a nearby town, and what begins as harassment escalates into a brutal group assault in which she is violated, tortured and left for dead. She survives, and turns her attention to tracking down and punishing the men responsible.
The film is a remake of the 1978 exploitation horror picture of the same name. Steven R. Monroe directed it from a screenplay by Adam Rockoff; it is the fourth of the fifteen features Monroe has directed, following Ogre and preceding I Spit on Your Grave 2. Sarah Butler plays Jennifer, with Jeff Branson, Andrew Howard, Chad Lindberg, Rodney Eastman and Tracey Walter among the supporting cast. Lisa M. Hansen and Paul Hertzberg produced for CineTel Films and Anchor Bay Films.
Made for about two million dollars, the film performed well enough to generate a sequel. Audience response has been modest: on IMDb it holds 6.2 out of 10 across roughly 102,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from about 2,700 votes. A critics' rating of 4.6 out of 10 from 63 reviews places it below those viewer scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the beginning of the film, during a car ride, Jennifer's glasses are up, but in the next shot she is already wearing them.
- Sarah Butler reluctantly took on the role because she herself never watches horror movies. Her agent persuaded the actress to agree (though not immediately).
- All the stunts in the film were performed by the actors themselves, with the exception of two that insurance companies refused to cover – Jennifer's jump from the bridge into the river and the fall of the character played by Chad Lindberg from the staircase.
- The final version of the shooting script included a scene where Jennifer arrives at a house in the heart of the forest with a dog. This scene was decided against because renting a trained dog would have exceeded the film's budget. According to director Steven R. Monroe, the cost of renting such a dog would have exceeded the fee of any of the actors in the film.
- The film was originally intended to be titled “Revenge on the Housatonic River,” where filming took place, but the title was later changed.
- Instead of a snap that the main character dissolves in the bath to kill the character played by Rodney Eastman, they used tablets (alka-seltzer) ground into a powder.
- During the torture scene, Sarah Butler accidentally chipped a piece of Jeff Branson's tooth. Due to budget constraints, the film used real firearms (unloaded), not props.
- The film is banned from distribution in Belarus.
- According to Jeff Branson (who played Johnny), the cast and crew, along with Sarah Butler (who played Jennifer), agreed that if she used a specific stop word during the shooting of the rape scene, filming would stop immediately. The stop word was never used during filming.
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