Posted on: August 7th, 2010 TRAILER: I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE Remake
I recently wrote about I Spit On Your Grave, its controversy and its impact in my article Box Office Gross: 8 Films Built On Shock. For 1978, the film – albeit hard-to-watch, the very essence of exploitative – did have important things to say about gender roles and on the whole what you can and can’t get away with in film.
Now we’re 32 years later and sodomy is a constant joke in some cartoons and a woman nearly became president (egads, keep that hate mail in the draft folder, I acknowledge that yes, even today, sexual discrimination and misogyny run rampant, still) and the thought of an effective retelling of the film seems a little redundant. There’s really nothing new or relevant to tell with a remake of ISOYG, but hey, this is Hollywood and nothing is sacred.
We now have our first trailer for the film and, big surprise, it looks entirely like I imagined. If anything though, it does look like it will be a brutal revenge flick, more so than the Last House on the Left remake, which is a pretty fair comparison seeing as the films are cut from the same cloth. Take a look below:
Now here’s a look at the 2010 poster and the 1978 poster, for comparison.
2010
1978
The new I Spit On Your Grave opens this October 8.