Jennifer is a writer working on a new novel and, needing to get out of the city to finish it, hires a riverside apartment in upstate New York to finish her book—attracting the attention of a number of rowdy male locals.
I Spit on Your Grave is exploitation pure and simple. But it's artistically redeeming exploitation. If you can handle it, see it.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
8 Oct 2010
fresh:
Female-empowerment fantasy or just plain prurience, Grave is extremely efficient grindhouse.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
8 Oct 2010
rotten:
An attempt to trade on its predecessor's reputation without really grappling with the questions it raises, Monroe's version merely seems shallow, cynical and extremely ugly.
– Jason Anderson,
Toronto Star,
14 Oct 2010
rotten:
Neither boring enough to qualify as pornography nor vital enough to generate a controversy.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
15 Oct 2010
rotten:
By honing the jagged edges of Meir Zarchi's cheap and nasty rape-revenge shocker into slick entertainment, this unwelcome remake improves technically on the 1978 original, while retaining all that was sleazy and repellent...