b-movie PHOBIA!!

[KYGOTC]

"I Spit On your Grave" has been sitting on my shelf for MONTHS now and I havent watched it because Ive heard such HORRID things about it. I mean, I can sit thru the goriest movies filled with exposed vital organs, needles impaling eyeballs, puke, p**s, and poop, and not even flinch, but a 40 minute rape scene just seems like something that might discharge my brain! But I STILL really want to watch it! As a b-movie fan, I fell that MUST as it's one of the most notorious bad movies of all time!

*sigh* Has this sort of thing ever happened to anyone ELSE?

[SynapticBoomstick]

40 minutes? I don't think you're alone, that sounds beyond my B-movie limits, too. Sounds like the entire damn movie, actually.

[RCMerchant]

 I've seen it. A very depressing movie. You could fast forward over the rape to the revenge...but it's not even a well made movie. Not really worth seeing,IMHO. If it was interesting,or scary....yeah ok. No music, No suspense. Just sadistic and depressing....and BORING.          

[TheDope]

Yeah, I won't see or own ISOYG for the same reason.  There are just moral limits you have to set for yourself when seeing a movie.

Besides that'n, I can watch just about any other movie out there with any matter of violence, language, nudity  or other such combined nonsense.

However, there are one or two movies on my shelf here by the desk that I have not yet brought myself to pop in Ye Olde Player, just because...and keep in mind I absolutely love bad movies, horrible ones, the worst-of-the-worst...of the bad things I've heard tell of them.  Not necessarily due to a moral conundrum, but the fact that they are worse than bad - they're BORING bad.

[KYGOTC]

However, there are one or two movies on my shelf here by the desk that I have not yet brought myself to pop in Ye Olde Player, just because...and keep in mind I absolutely love bad movies, horrible ones, the worst-of-the-worst...of the bad things I've heard tell of them.  Not necessarily due to a moral conundrum, but the fact that they are worse than bad - they're BORING bad.

What movies would those be?

[Doc Daneeka]

House of the Dead 2?

[Rev. Powell]

However, there are one or two movies on my shelf here by the desk that I have not yet brought myself to pop in Ye Olde Player, just because...and keep in mind I absolutely love bad movies, horrible ones, the worst-of-the-worst...of the bad things I've heard tell of them.  Not necessarily due to a moral conundrum, but the fact that they are worse than bad - they're BORING bad.

TITANIC and GIGLI?

[TheDope]

Gigli is definitely one of them.

Others: Sorcerer (the Wages of Fear remake with Roy Scheider), The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Tormented, Nukie (a GREAT example).

[316zombie]

which version of tormented?

[RCMerchant]

which version of tormented?

The only TORMENTED I know of is this one-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGmqwIb-x9k

"TOM STEWART KILLED ME!"   

[TheDope]

which version of tormented?

The Bert I. Gordon one, non MST-ed version.

NOT the bondage video from '93 I just saw on IMDb.   

[Mr_Vindictive]

Am I the only one who can recommend I Spit On Your Grave?

I had the same problem as you KYGOTC.  At the time, Netflix didn't exist and Blockbuster certainly didn't carry the film.  If I wanted to make myself see the film then I would have to buy it.

A co-worker of mine when I worked for the state, knew of the film and actually owned it.     She said she saw it on a double bill with Dawn Of The Dead back in the day, and she let me borrow the VHS.

It's actually not as bad as what everyone makes it out to be.  The rape scene is extensive but it mostly consists of close ups of the attackers, not much more than that.  I ended up fast forwarding through the rape, not because it was excessive but because it was just going on and on.  Rape scenes, if they have to be in a film, should be done quickly and to the point.  They shouldn't be dragged on and on.

Anyway, once you get past the rape, the film is pretty interesting.  As RC said, the film has no music which makes it so much more haunting.  Give it a watch, it has a bunch of scenes that I would consider classic.

[Shadow]

A friend and I rented this back in the 80's, thinking it was going to be a typical slasher. Boy, were we surprised! I have not seen it since then, but I do recall how the rape and brutalization seemed to go on and on. Of course, being a male, the scene that will be forever seared into my memory is the bathtub sequence. OUCH.

[odinn7]

It's funny in a way...as I get older and I have a daughter and a new love in my life...I find I have trouble with "brutality" movies. I love horror...I love gore...but I can really do without the sensless brutality in some movies. Hostel II comes to mind right off the bat...I saw it a few nights ago because someone had bought it for my birthday and I kept being questioned as to when I would watch it...so I broke down and did. The movie was weak but I also didn't like it because of the senseless brutality that the women faced. It makes me uneasy these days to sit and view that. I felt really odd when the nerd girl got it...I mean...at least make me hate the characters first, you know?

[KYGOTC]

I felt really odd when the nerd girl got it...I mean...at least make me hate the characters first, you know?

Yea, that sort of thing hapened in "Snakes on a Plane" with that one couple who were going on their honeymoon and not being jerks or hatable charecters at al but get a realy nastey death anyway. That guys EYES were foaming from all the snake venom, man!