10 Twisted Horror Movies That Go Way Too Far
4. I Spit On Your Grave
Ultimately, cinema is about emotions, and drawing something out from an audience, and you could argue that there are few better feelings than seeing a character getting their comeuppance when it is really deserved. Who doesn't love a revenge flick?
On the broadest possible scale, in terms of the story at least, this was what 1978's I Spit on Your Grave revolved around. At the core of the horror and the brutality was a woman looking for vengeance.
The subject of the film was that Jennifer Hills (Camille Keaton) was sexually assaulted by a group of men, and her subsequent revenge-led mission to see them pay. However, the sheer brutality and the ridiculous levels of detail the scene in question went into were completely unnecessary. Such a traumatic subject is always going to be difficult to portray in a way that doesn't disgust the audience, and while this was obviously the desired response, I Spit on Your Grave went way too far.
The scenes that depicted the assault took up no less than 30 minutes of the picture's 100-minute run time. That's almost a third of the film going into every graphic and gruesome detail in a way that was simply disgusting. An audience is always going to be upset by such a scene, but to torture people with it for half an hour is diabolical and demented.