10 Best Horror Movies Of 2018

Now, Revenge technically is the same story we've seen a thousand times before. I Spit On Your Grave, The Last House On The Left, Irreversible, they're all the same story - but Revenge does something markedly different with the washed up trope.

Of course, there's a woman, Jen, on holiday with her partner when two of his friends show up unexpectedly; resulting in a skin-crawling build up of tension before she's assaulted and left for dead. The title tells it all here really, as the rest of the narrative is her seeking vengeance on the three men that wronged her in three different ways: the attacker, the bystander, and the (attempted) murderer.

What Revenge does so well is make short work of the actual attack. Where other directors make disgust a spectacle, Revenge is told through a woman's lens that doesn't dwell on the horror of assault, but instead lingers on male bodies, on Jen's will to live, and on her tenacity on overcoming three professional hunters in the unforgiving desert. The horror of her doing what it takes to get to the other side.

She is a phoenix that rises from the ashes, and unapologetically tells her story with a woman's gaze. An exciting twist on a exploitative subgenre.