Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Sarah ButlerJennifer Hills
- Jeff BransonJohn 'Johnny' Miller
- Tracey WalterEarl
- Andrew HowardSheriff Storch
- Chad LindbergMatthew
- Rodney EastmanAndy
- Daniel FranzeseStanley
- Mollie MilliganMrs. Storch
- Saxon SharbinoChastity Storch
Recommendations
- 60
The New York Times
Female-empowerment fantasy or just plain prurience, "Grave" is extremely efficient grindhouse. If there is any message here at all, it's don't mess with a novelist: being creative is her job. - 50
Variety
Its straight-ahead rape, humiliation and ingenious revenge competently executed but not aestheticized, the essential grunginess never overly slicked up. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Now it's just some thin chick in her underwear, kicking butt. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
In terms of real horror, nevermind sexual-politics provocation, "Grave" can neither re-create its predecessor's impact nor compete with stranger new beasts like Lars von Trier's "Antichrist." - 25
The A.V. Club
Not surprisingly, the remake gussies up the grindhouse roughness of the first film, which makes it relatively more palatable-yet still vapid and repulsive-while also, in a perverse way, selling it out. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
As vile, unredeeming and thoroughly unpleasant experiences go, I Spit on Your Grave at least has one thing interesting about it. It's a document of the most paranoid fantasies that urban, Northern people have about a rural Southern people. - 20
Village Voice
When every injury is repaid with interest, this self-destroying work has nowhere to go but to the credits. Such symmetry is a dismal, barbarian sort of perfection. - 20
Time Out
Harsh-voiced Sarah Butler lends zero personality to her avenging antiheroine, and the retributive torture sequences approach "Saw" levels of unlikelihood.
