Just saw I Spit on Your Grave 2 and need to say that this flick really delivers the goods. Spoilers a'plenty from here on --
Film stars the gorgeous Jemma Dallender as Katie, an aspiring model who is working as a waitress in NYC. A talent agent tells her that she needs to upgrade her portfolio. Since she has no money, she answers an ad which promises "Free photos for models." She goes and meets three brothers with vaguely Eastern European accents -- one is the photographer (Ivan) and the other are his assistants. The shoot seems to go well until the photographer asks her to go nude. She refuses -- "So you want free pictures to sell on the internet?" she asks -- and runs out.
Once back at her apartment, one of the men comes and apologizes and gives her her pictures. She's creeped out, to say the least, but takes the pictures and tries to be polite. She's not so polite when she wakes up that night and sees him in her bedroom. She tries to scream and run, but he grabs her, ties her arms behind her back, lashes her ankles together, and stuffs a rag in her mouth as a gag.
A neighbor hears and comes in, but the guy stabs him. He then rips Katie's panties off and in a long brutal sequence, rapes her -- and it appears to be anally since her ankles are still ties together.
Once done, he panics and calls his brothers. They come in and survey the situation, and Ivan says there is no cleaning this up. He forces Katie to grab the knife (so her fingerprints will be on it) and the gives Katie some drug that makes her pass out. She wakes up and is chained naked on a mattress while she is being raped by one of the other brothers. Once he's done raping her, she begins to cry and says that she's thirsty, to which the guy who raped her replies by pissing all over her face.
She spends the next bunch of time desperately trying to break free from her chains (still naked the whole time), until they come back and talk about "someone coming" and wanting to "dress her pretty." They force another pill down her throat and go to get something to put on her.
Once they leave, she puts her hand down her throat and makes herself vomit the pill out. So when the guy comes back and have her put on a very short slinky dress, she is able to overpower him and escape.
Once she gets out, turns out that she had been transported to Bulgaria. She goes to the police and meets a woman who runs a shelter and agrees to take her to the US Embassy. But, of course, this is an Eastern European country, so they are in on it and drag her back to the basement where they rechain her up -- but still wearing her short dress. Ivan -- who seems to be in charge -- punishes her by pulling her dress down and twisting her nipples for a while, and then some new freak comes in holding a shock wand.
In an incredibly long sequence that I simply cannot believe is in a mainstream film, this guy shocks Katie on the legs, the inside of her thighs, makes her take the wand in her mouth, and then shocks her right in her groin multiple times. He then goes ahead and rapes her.
When we next see her, she is curled up in a fetal position, almost comatose, blood dripping from her groin and thighs. Ivan comes in and mocks her, telling her that she is now "too disgusting to fuck" and taunts her a little more. She still has enough strength to slap him, although the enormity of her situation begins to hit her and she starts to cry. And so, just to add a final insult, he kneels over her and begins to beat the crap out her with his fists.
Next they dig a hole in the basement, while Katie -- who now is in really bad shape -- lies there. Ivan says, "Just think -- if you'd only just taken your clothes off for me in New York, none of this would have happened." They rip her dress off, and throw her naked, and still definitely alive, into a trunk. They also throw the shock wand in the box with her, which turns out to be not so good news for the scum. They then bury her in the hole.
Of course, she escapes and takes gruesome (and well deserved) revenge against the entire group... but that's the part of the film nobody in this forum cares about -- although I will say there is a little twist at the end that pays a little homage to the original ISOYG's famous marketing campaign.
I still am in a little bit of shock after seeing this. Far and away the most extreme thing I've ever seen in a mainstream film. What I've described takes up the first hour of the film, then there's about 15 minutes of escape and "preparation", and then about 20 minutes of the revenge. It's filled with extensive nudity, bondage, and torture and the victim -- Jemma Dallender -- is absolutely drop dead gorgeous. And what happens to her is so horrible that you actually sort of want the scum to get theirs. I'd have to say I Spit on Your Grave 2 may be the best rape/revenge flick in a long time.
|