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Directed by | Steven R. Monroe |
Produced by |
Lisa M. Hansen Paul Hertzberg |
Screenplay by | Stuart Morse |
Based on |
Day of the Woman by Meir Zarchi |
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Music by | Corey Allen Jackson |
Cinematography | Neil Lisk |
Edited by | Daniel Duncan |
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Distributed by | Anchor Bay Entertainment |
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108 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million |
Box office | $572,809 |
I Spit on Your Grave is a 2010 American rape-and-revenge horror film, and a remake of the controversial 1978 cult film Day of the Woman (better known by its re-release title, I Spit on Your Grave). It was directed by Steven R. Monroe, and stars Sarah Butler, Chad Lindberg, Daniel Franzese, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, and Andrew Howard.
City novelist Jennifer Hills (Sarah Butler) is driving to a cabin in the woods she had rented, located next to a town, in order to write her next book in privacy. Lost and out of fuel, she pulls into a gas station for information and filling up. Operator Johnny (Jeff Branson) gives her the information and tries to flirt with her, to no avail, despite her sympathy and politeness. Jennifer accidentally hits the panic button on her car, causing Johnny to stumble backward into a bucket of water and his nearby friends Andy (Rodney Eastman) and Stanley (Daniel Franzese) to laugh at him.
At and around the cabin, Jennifer spends the following days sunbathing, hiking, smoking marijuana, and drinking alcohol, which she had brought in large amounts. One day, the plumbing of the cabin's bathroom becomes clogged up, and a stuttering plumber named Matthew (Chad Lindberg), who has social interaction disability, is sent at her request to fix the problem, which he successfully does, awarding him an abrupt kiss of gratitude from Jennifer, who states he saved her from having to bathe in the swampy lake.
The three men from before, revealed to be brash, reckless, and sadistic, are seen again beating a fish with a bat when Matthew, who is friends with them, arrives and tells about his experience and boasts that she likes him. Instigated by Johnny, who seems ego-wounded and derided with his incident with Jennifer at the gas station, the friends conclude that she is snobbish and needs to be "taught a lesson".