Day of the Woman (1978)

After i saw the ''decent'' remake it was time for me to go and watch the original Day of the Woman also known as I Spit on Your Grave. I looked up a thing or two about the film before I watched it and noticed it was on the Video Nasties list. So I got more and more excited. 

The film follows Jennifer, a writer who is working on a new novel and needs to get out of the city to finish it. She rents a riverside cabin in upstate New York to work on her novel, attracting the attention of a number of rowdy male locals. They catch Jennifer one day and strip her naked for the village idiot (Matthew) and rape her. Jennifer is later attacked and raped a further two times by the four degenerates, and her novel is also destroyed. But Jennifer recovers, and in her now-twisted, psychotic state, she begins to seek revenge on the men.

The first part of the film is filled with the rape of Jennifer but these rape scene's aren't half as shocking as the ones in the remake. The reason for that is that the group of rapists aren't very convincing to say the least. One of 'em yells like he's some kind of indian, one of 'em is a retard and one of 'em is a lookalike of Landon Donovan. Richard Pace especially does a pretty damn bad job portraying the retard. The only good acting from the group comes from Eron Tabor who does a pretty good job. But overal the hilariously bad acting doesn't do much good to the ''shocking'' rape scene's. As a matter of fact, it only makes it look more amateuristic.

Finally after the raping is over Jennifer starts to get a little bit more lively again. And what do you do when you just got brutally raped?... Thats right!.. You get yourself a warm cup of coffee and finish writing your book. That onlogical part annoyed me a bit but luckily after a while she realises that these punks need to be taught a lesson. And thats when the good stuff starts. The rapists get killed of great although there isn't a lot of gore (except for the gross dick-scene of course)

Day of the Woman probably was a crude shocker in the 70's but i don't think it is anymore. It could have been more shocking but the acting of the rapists had to be better as the rape-scene's are way to amateuristic. Though the revenge part is pretty awesome