3/2/2024 0 Comments Cabin fever 2016 plot holesThough clunkily introduced (‘I’m a novelist, actually’), this Jennifer Hills (Sarah Butler) is given a bit more grit. Monroe (whose career tracks from the interesting House of 9 through okayish cable perennials like Ogre, It Waits and Sasquatch Mountain) and writer Jeffrey Reddick (of Final Destination, Tamara and the dire Day of the Dead remake) take Zarchi’s script and solve most of its problems: it’s the same story, but it now has a suspenseful build-up, thought-through interplay among the villains, an emphasis on verbal as well as physical abuse which punches up the horror of the violation and takes away the monotony, and new angles which try to fill in plot holes. Its biggest problem is the imbalance which makes it a hard watch – the filmmakers are so much more interested in filming the rape (which goes on forever) than setting up or developing the story (which just goes through the motions) that it’s impossible not to feel the movie’s main attraction is the hour or so of watching a girl get fucked over rather than the mostly cursory sequences in which she gets even.ĭirector Steven R. The old movie earned some notoriety on the video nasties list and has its defenders, but I’ve never been convinced it was anything more than an inept, exploitative shocker with a hard-to-sit-through gang rape followed by one effective revenge (the bathtub castration) and some muffed action scenes. But what would be the point? It seems that all the major titles, and many of the minor ones, from the horror backlist now rate remakes: here’s a new mounting of Meir Zarchi’s well-known 1978 rape-revenge picture (listed in the credits of this as Day of the Woman) which improves in every single aspect on the original - with the exception that it’s not as upsetting. If someone professional with access to a reasonable budget were to remake Plan 9 From Outer Space with a competent script, speakable dialogue, decent actors, good special effects and no attempt to patronise the original material, it might come out as something like The Arrival. My notes on the remake of I Spit On Your Grave
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