I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)

[GasmaskAvenger]

I need to get both sequels to the remake after having bought the double blu-ray set of the remake itself and the original film.

[mansonfan666]

So I just rewatched this and the remake for the first time since 2013. My memory was that I liked the remake better than this one, but this time it was the total opposite. I definitely preferred part 2 this time around. I’ll be watching part 3 for the first time later this week.

[fundamentalfred]

I really liked the first 2 just as you did I felt the same way. Just saw both again and its a toss up to me now as both have held up. The 3rd one was not very good as I remembered but will try it again as its TUBI available

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by mansonfan666

So I just rewatched this and the remake for the first time since 2013. My memory was that I liked the remake better than this one, but this time it was the total opposite. I definitely preferred part 2 this time around. I’ll be watching part 3 for the first time later this week.

I prefer the first sequel, too, although I think III might be my favourite of the three films. It's shameless trashy fun.

[TripleHBK]

It's amazing how entertaining these films turned out. For a film franchise centered on Rape/Revenge the producers sure figured out a smart way to extended this franchise without making it too ridiculous. I wasn't a particular fan of the remake the first time I watched it, but with subsequent viewings I've found I actually enjoy it quite a bit. I Really enjoy all 3 films and consider them some of the better indie horror efforts of the last 10 years.

[GasmaskAvenger]

IMO this was the best of the remake trilogy and has, for my money, one of the most disturbing, difficult to watch sequences i've seen in a film in quite some time.

I bet this was the original idea for the remake before they had to settle on outright redoing the same plot of the Meir Zarchi film...then with that out of the way, they finally got to do this one after all.

[levcore]

Sarah Butler is one of the most divine looking women I've ever seen, her performance really made the first one for me.

[mansonfan666]

Originally Posted by levcore

Sarah Butler is one of the most divine looking women I've ever seen, her performance really made the first one for me.

Yeah even though I preferred part 2 to the remake, I definitely liked Sarah Butler better than the girl in part 2.

[mansonfan666]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

I prefer the first sequel, too, although I think III might be my favourite of the three films. It's shameless trashy fun.

Good deal, I'm looking forward to it. Mainly because they bring Sarah Butler back.

[Scoot79]

Originally Posted by levcore

Sarah Butler is one of the most divine looking women I've ever seen, her performance really made the first one for me.

I agree, but I think Jemma Dallender from part 2 is even more beautiful. They're both gorgeous though.

[inconsistentluddite]

I saw the original decades ago, and contrary to many critics' takes, I found it to be a very, very "pro-woman" film, and unsettlingly powerful as a grimy work of grindhouse art. However, I've never gotten around to watching the remake, and its sequels, until the last few days. I often don't like remakes, so I was honestly very skeptical about these movies, but Bullmoose had one copy left, online, of a ISOYG three-DVD set for $16, and that seemed like too good of a deal to pass up!

Last night, it was Part 2. WOW. The 2010 remake is fairly good, overall, but for me, it just can't match the 1978 original. Part 2, though, is on another level. It's the most harrowing and effective movie (on many levels) that I have ever seen in the "revenge" genre of horror movies, period. Before watching it, I read quite a number of severe criticisms of this film, including from fans of the original and/or the remake, but man-- this one hit me, emotionally and psychologically, so hard, and I mean that as a compliment, as I think that was the intention.

Jemma Dallender's performance is incredible-- a primal scream of acting ability that doesn't seem, to me, like acting at all. Quite simply, she took me as deeply inside her character's horrific experiences I can imagine ever going without literally enduring those experiences myself. Now, I want to see her in any other film in which she has played a major role, and I'm going to work on that.

Many viewers were put off by this film, opining that it goes too far and is too nastily exploitative, but without sounding overly sentimental, as a person who has lived through various, terrible kinds of abuse (not rape though), "ISOYG, Part 2" spoke to me as (among many other things) a work of empathy with, and anger on behalf of, victims of abuse that takes the viewer deeply inside the trauma of a seriously abused person. I probably won't watch it again soon, as it is truly, extremely harrowing, but I won't forget it, and I'm very glad to have it in my collection. (And this is from a person who has come to oppose the death penalty, as a legal matter, for various reasons-- but to be clear, I am not intending to start any debates on that issue here!) On to Part 3!

[Gretiem]

Watched this the other day and it was super disturbing. It was extremely difficult to watch. I dunno how these actors were able to do this.

[fundamentalfred]

I really thought the 1 and 2 remake and sequel were great. I can see how some would want to think these are misogynistic but what I saw was a woman in both kicking serious scum ass. Rape is an ugly topic to tackle and very unsettling to watch but the payoffs when both these women get their revenge is not hard to watch to me.

[inconsistentluddite]

Originally Posted by Gretiem

Watched this the other day and it was super disturbing. It was extremely difficult to watch. I dunno how these actors were able to do this.

It's definitely an emotionally rough and challenging film to watch. I just keep remembering how very real Jemma Dallender's performance seemed. I am so impressed with how fearless she was in going deeply into the pain and trauma of her character.

[inconsistentluddite]

Originally Posted by fundamentalfred

I really thought the 1 and 2 remake and sequel were great. I can see how some would want to think these are misogynistic but what I saw was a woman in both kicking serious scum ass. Rape is an ugly topic to tackle and very unsettling to watch but the payoffs when both these women get their revenge is not hard to watch to me.

I completely agree with you. I can see how some people would take these films in a misogynistic way, because what is done to the female victims is so incredibly heinous, but when the women get their revenge, to me, the intended message is one of empowerment-- and to be clear, I don't personally condone vigilante justice in real, everyday life, but it can be very satisfying to witness such justice in movies, especially when it concerns the kinds of violations in these films.