Hey guys, back for another review. Now I know we're all feeling a little down about the massive failure of I Spit On Your Grave 3: Vengeance is Mine, but we're going to get through this damn it, and this little gem will help. Now, have any of you ever wanted to flip the formula, and instead of the woman being wronged before taking vengeance out on all the bad guys, you have the guy as the victim before getting back at all the evil women? Well if so, you should know the director of Creeper stole your idea and actually went through with it.
Now, yes, being a mainstream flick, this thing misses more opportunities than the Chicago Cubs. But it still has some decent scenes, a pretty good buildup, and it's a lousy $3 for an HD rental, so cut it some slack OK!
Alright so basically these four pretty hot women are fed up with the creeps they meet online, and they decide to mess with the biggest loser they can find over webcam. You guys remember the dude that Happy Gilmore shot in the head with a nail gun? It's basically him.
They make him do stupid stuff like flex muscles, put makeup on, dance around, show them his dick, shave his balls (none shown on screen thank Jesus), etc. They flash their breasts at him once to keep him going in the middle of it all, otherwise it's kind of boring. But stay with me, it pays off! See, the part to remember in all of this is when the ring leader, who is the blonde, tells him to take off his belt and flog himself. She explains to him that flogging is when someone worthless is tied to a tree and whipped. Right, hold that thought bitch.
So they finally decide to just flat out kill him (I know, it escalates quickly) by luring him into a trap with a video of them showering together. The trap consists of two of the women jumping him while he's watching the video, beating the crap out of him and suffocating him with a rope. Of course, these girls aren't even as big as one of this dude's legs, but just go with it. Surprise, he ends up surviving, and then it fast forwards a year and we get to the good stuff.
He captures all of the women mostly off screen, and each of them wakes up completely naked in some kind of trap. One is in a cage that gets dragged into a lake before she stumbles out and wanders around in the buff for a little while. Another is tied to a tree and drenched in blood (not hers). And one is buried from the neck down out in a field before being discovered by her friends.
But the best part is when he deals with the blonde. The scene opens with her tied to a chair naked. He cuts her loose, wakes her up and drags her over to a toilet where he shoves her head in a few times all while she flails about fruitlessly. Then he dumps what's supposed to be fecal matter on her (which really isn't my thing) before cuffing her to a tree where he flogs her. She's eventually freed by one of the other girls and runs around naked for a little while longer before the finale, which involves her tied down and pulled apart by a truck (she's clothed at that point though, so major points off).
Overall this would have been a lot better had he toyed with the women more and made them do the same kinds of things they made him do. It hinted it might go in that direction before becoming your standard women running away from a killer in the forest thing. Still, the blonde's comeuppance is a real highlight. I really liked that she wasn't involved in the early flashing or shower scenes, and that her body was only shown when it was against her will.
I may be a little generous here, but I'm giving it a B+ grading on the mainstream curve. Misses the A because there were too many chances for it to be even better.
Minor note: The film uses this effect with thin black lines running on the screen, but I didn't think it was a big deal.
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