4. I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
Jennifer Hills has come to upstate New York to get peace and quiet to write a novel. Unfortunately her presence alerts some of the area's most unsavoury redneck locals. The yokels start to prowl about Jennifer's place at night to spy on her. One day, Jennifer is relaxing in a canoe when the rednecks appear and tow her to land. She tries to escape when she realises that the men have set her up for nitwit Matthew to lose his virginity to her. Jennifer runs through the forest but Johnny, the redneck ring leader, rapes her. This is followed by one of the men anally raping Jennifer and eventually Matthew the idiot has sex with her too. The men tear up her manuscript and sexually assault her again. They order Matthew to kill her but he is too scared to do this. The rest of the film deals with Jennifer's quest for revenge against the rednecks - she cooly dispatches of them one by one, the most notable scene is the castration and death of Johnny in the bath while Jennifer listens to music as Johnny screams for help. Jennifer just stares stonily ahead. Of course, the rednecks are a reprehensible bunch in I Spit on Your Grave - targeting a lone, vulnerable woman for perverted and unwanted sex. Johnny, the ringleader, is the worst of all - he is the 'brains' behind the protracted rape and sodomy scenes. It is doubtful that the other men would have raped Jennifer had it not been for Johnny's orchestration of the whole ordeal. So when he is castrated, we do not feel any sympathy for him. It is what he deserves. Ultimately Jennifer wreaks revenge on all the men. They are definitely rednecks you wouldn't want to meet in the woods - especially if you are a woman.