10 Movie Remakes That Ripped Off Audiences
9. I Spit On Your Grave (2010)
Originally released in 1978 under the title Day Of The Woman, Meir Zarchis I Spit On Your Grave wasn't content just to use rape-revenge as a device to sell movie tickets, it also featured a 25 minute (in the uncut version) sequence where the same woman is attacked 3 times. Roger Ebert called the picture a vile bag of garbage while Kim Newman contended that it has the distinction of being among the most loathsome films of all time. Sounds like a movie just begging for a reboot, doesn't it?
Steven R Monroe's version tones down the violence slightly, but it also dispenses with the pretensions towards being a feminist movie that Zarchi swears was the point of his version. In order to capitalize on the Torture Porn fad, the films heroine removes teeth with pliers, captures one victim in a bear trap and booby traps a shotgun in order to kill another. In fact, the movie does something far more loathsome than Zarchis film it turned rape-revenge into a franchise.
So far, two sequels have followed, both of which involve women hunting down male aggressors. If that appeals to you, help yourself.