That comes to $19.78 – a nod to the year that Meir Zarchi’s film was originally released. Keep an eye out for how much Jennifer’s gas bill comes to when she fills up her car at Johnny’s garage in the 2010 remake.
Incidentally, 1999’s German I Piss on Your Cadaver is possibly the first rape film to feature a blooper reel in its end credits! Imitation is the sincerest form of flatteryĮffectively influencing every rape-revenge film that followed it, the infamous original also inspired an unofficial remake ( Naked Vengeance, 1985), an unofficial sequel ( Savage Vengeance, 1993), a Turkish version ( Turkish I Spit On Your Grave, 1979) and even, bizarrely, a spoof ( I Spit Chew On Your Grave, 2008). While it was released in Italy and France with the quite conservative titles of Don’t Rape Jennifer and An Eye for an Eye respectively, in West Germany it was named Blood Angel and in Ecuador, quite bizarrely, as Suspiria 2: Killer Sharks, possibly in an imaginative attempt to cash in on the success of Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) and Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975). While the original’s title was changed from Day of the Woman to the more exploitation friendly, I Spit on Your Grave, that’s nothing compared to some of the bonkers monikers it was given when marketed overseas. It would take 32 years, with the release of the 2010 remake, for Jennifer to actually claim five victims. While it announces that “this woman has just cut, chopped, broken and burned five men beyond recognition” – Jennifer is only responsible for the death of four men in the 1978 film – and none of them are burned. The in(famous) tagline to the original I Spit on Your Grave media campaign – blazoned across posters and advertising campaigns – is factually incorrect. The victim of a rape attack, Zarchi took her to a local police station where he claimed to have been horrified at the dismissive treatment she received at the hands of officers. The original was inspired by real eventsĪlthough I Spit on Your Grave was released in 1978, Jennifer Hills effectively first staggered into Meir Zarchi’s life in 1974 when he discovered a naked woman in Goose Pond Park, Jamaica Hills, New York. The iconic poster for I Spit on Your Grave of a scantily clad, blood soaked female avenger most definitely helped cement the film’s notoriety and has influenced numerous film posters since, including those of the entire I Spit franchise.īut that’s not lead actress Camille Keaton posing with her back turned that derriere belongs to none other than Hollywood A-lister Demi Moore (as revealed in the Growing Up with I Spit on Your Grave documentary).
When director Meir Zarchi unleashed the notorious I Spit on Your Grave on the world in 1978, no one could have predicted that 42 years later it would still be courting controversy, would have influenced an entire genre of film-making, and would have created a franchise of its own – as evidenced in the new boxset of the definitive I Spit on Your Grave collection from Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment (with UK first releases of direct sequel I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu and new documentary Growing Up with I Spit on Your Grave.
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