The plot, as basic as they come, involves writer Jennifer moving to a cabin in the woods on her own (yawn), only to run into a group of vicious, woman hating rednecks who break, sexually humiliate her and force their mentally handicapped friend (one of the most offensive portrayals of disability I’ve seen in a long time) to rape her.
Monroe, is a controversial and despicable film (cut by roughly 30 seconds by the BBFC), but due to its realistic and protracted rape (half the film is the threatening, torture and rape of protagonist Jennifer Hills, played with proficiency by Sarah Butler), as well as utterly disgusting and putrid torture scenes in the second half, I found I Spit On Your Grave to be a much more disturbing, unpleasant and downright sickening film. I Spit On Your Grave, a remake of the controversial 1978 rape revenge flick and directed by Steven R. A Serbian Film, considered one of the most controversial and despicable films of all times (and famously cut by 4 minutes by the BBFC), is admittedly a very grotty and disgusting misogynistic horror, but it’s all so ridiculous and rubbish, with terrible rubbery prosthetics and cartoon performances, that the effect is one of disregard rather than shock and outrage.
The difference between 2010’s most controversial horror films, A Serbian Film and the I Spit On Your Grave remake, is realism.
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