![]() Reviewed by nogodnomasters 2 / 10 My cousin was like a brother to me. As it is now, it's an interminable, frustrating mess. This could have passed as a mediocre exploitation film if they whittled it down to about an hour and fifteen minutes, which would have considerably picked up the film's tempo and relieved a lot of the boredom. Even the few special effects are totally unconvincing, and the plot remains disappointingly tame. this should have been way over-the-top, as the original was the grandfather of revenge flicks. ISOYG-DV doesn't even come remotely close to the creativity or sleaziness of the original. ![]() How long did it take to shoot this? With the incessant monologues and additions to the plot it must have been an endless production schedule. the director continues to add more and more small, absurd plot elements to incessantly draw it out. For a b-film, the actors are believable in their performances, but they just never, ever shut up. the extraneous, redundant, astoundingly monotonous dialogue just goes on and on, until it finally grinds the pace of the film to a complete halt. Every single scene in this film is AT LEAST 2-3 times longer than it should be. Keaton - who adds nothing to the film and at times is embarrassing to watch - he was going to make this sequel the equivalent of "Gone With the Wind?" His screenplay couldn't have been less than 400 pages long. Did Meir Zarchi think that by casting Ms. I'm at a loss as to how anyone could have given thumbs up to the film the way it was written, shot and released. Clocking in at 148 minutes, this bloated, monotonous albatross was actually painful to watch. I read two external reviews of the film on IMDB before I watched it, and both lauded the film, calling it "strong stuff," and "not for those with weak stomachs." Those reviewers clearly saw a very different film than I did. When I read that the current "Deja Vu" release had cast Camille Keaton, who was the heroine in the original, I was immediately intrigued. incredibly sleazy but undeniably entertaining, gross, and yes, even shocking. I saw the original "I Spit On Your Grave" when it was released in 1978, and it was one of the 70's grindhouse classics that stayed with me. Some grudges refuse to be buried-David Maguire. Meir Zarchi delivers the next explosive saga in the most controversial tale of an eye-for-an-eye ever committed to celluloid. After she's kidnapped along with her daughter, scream queen Jamie Bernadette, it's a tense game of hunt-or-be-hunted against a lethal gang of degenerates overseen by violently-unhinged matriarch Maria Olsen. Reuniting star Camille Keaton and original director Meir Zarchi, I Spit On Your Grave: Déjà Vu sends now-successful writer Jennifer Hills hurtling back to where it all began to face the wrath of the families of those she murdered. 40 years after 1978's I Spit On Your Grave shocked the world with its story of a beautiful career woman assaulted and left for dead, and her notorious revenge on those responsible, cinema's most lethal Lady Vengeance returns in the most anticipated sequel of all time. In the small town where the rape and revenge took place, the relatives of the rapists she killed are furious that the court declared her not guilty and resolve to take justice into their own hands.Jennifer Hills is back. AKA: I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu, I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (United Kingdom), I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (Australia), I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (Canada), Я плюю на ваши могилы: Дежа вю (Russian Federation), I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (Germany), I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (Brazil), I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (Canada), I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (India), I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (Spain), I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (United States of America) 我唾弃你的坟墓:似曾相识 (China)įollowing her rape, Jennifer Hills wrote a bestselling account of her ordeal and of the controversial trial in which she was accused of taking the law into her own hands and brutally killing her assailants.Stars: Camille Keaton, Jamie Bernadette, Maria Olsen.
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