But there’s also signs that Becky is always thinking, scheming, or turning situations over in her mind to justify her need for vengeance. When Becky locks eyes on her victims, you can see the rage burning behind those eyes. But unlike the other family members, Scotty, Kevin, and Herman (Jim Tavare), Becky has a wicked intelligence that shows behind her gleaming eyes. She shows some of the stereotyping of a backwoods, redneck, religious, uneducated woman. While the family members of the rapists are, for the most part, broadly stereotyped and played for some laughs, Becky is something else entirely. Maria Olsen’s Becky, the family matriarch, is one of the classic villain performances in horror. Bernadette gives her body and soul to this role, and a movie that edges dangerously close to parody is anchored in its grittiness by Bernadette. Jamie Bernadette’s emotionally fraught and naked performance as Christy is chilling, powerful, and heart-breaking. I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE: DÉJÀ VU is anchored by two outstanding performances. The boys bring Jennifer and Christy before the family matriarch, Becky (Maria Olsen), and the twisted game of revenge begins for both the Hills and the families of the rapists. The plan goes slightly awry when two of the family members, Kevin (Jonathan Peacy) and Scotty (Jeremy Ferdman), mistakenly sweep up Christy when they make their grab for Jennifer. Their anger grows to the point that they plan to kidnap Jennifer and dish out their brand of justice. The families of the five rapists, who hold a grudge against Jennifer, find out about the book as well when they hear Jennifer being interviewed on a religious radio show. Jennifer has become a rape victim counselor, speaks to audiences around the world, and published a book about her experiences. She has raised a daughter, Christy (Jamie Bernadette), who is a world-renowned fashion model. Now, 40 years later, Meir Zarchi returns to his cinematic creation to bring fans the only official sequel to the original movie - I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE: DÉJÀ VU.* Can Zarchi bring the same level of violence and depravity to the sequel that he did to the original, and will it play in 2019?įorty years after Jennifer’s brutal rape and revenge, she is living a good life. There’s no question that the audience wants to see these men pay for their crimes in the most brutal, sadistic fashion possible, and they do. The rape scene, which lasts nearly 30 minutes, is an endurance of human suffering on screen that’s as effective as it is repulsive. The story about author Jennifer Hills (Camille Keaton) and her revenge on her five rapists, is a difficult movie to watch. When horror fans discuss the most controversial, the most powerful, the most unnerving movies, it’s inevitable that the discussion centers on writer/director Meir Zarchi’s 1978 grindhouse classic, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. “ I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà vu” is also available to watch on VOD.Meir Zarchi digs up old hostilities and new players for “I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu”, the official sequel to the controversial 1978 rape-revenge film. In addition to it now being available on DVD and Blu-ray. Watching this makes me want to view this sequel again, and that’s even though it is highly unlikely my opinion of it will change. When it gets to “Déjà vu,” the footage is cleaned up but now dominated by a hard rock score and a narrator who sounds like he is reveling in this sequel’s down and dirty qualities. The color scheme is perfect as it makes the poster appropriately grungy, just like a grindhouse film should be.Īs for the trailer, it features footage from “I Spit on Your Grave” and makes it look as though the film is about to break (like I said, poor print quality). The poster features Bernadette quite prominently, but it also includes the many characters who inhabit this sequel as well as some of its most unforgettable images. These grindhouse qualities are more than evident in the newly released poster and trailer for “I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà vu,” and I got a huge kick out of both as a result. They were also afflicted with low production values and poor print quality, but these of course became qualities fans of the genre loved to no end. These films were known for containing a lot of sex, violence, blood, gore and different bizarre elements you would never see in the average Disney movie. Grindhouse, aside from being the title of an awesome cinematic experience directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, is a term for a theater in America which screens exploitation films. There are the performances of Jamie Bernadette and Maria Olsen, and now we have a new poster and trailer done in the style of a grindhouse film. While I have already made clear my thoughts about the long-awaited sequel “ I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà vu,” there are still some things about it I cannot help but admire.
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