5.9 | / 10 |
Users | 3.2 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.9 |
After seeking out the help of a support group after her attack, a young woman decides to take the law into her own hands. She begins to dish out her own brand of justice to the people who abused her fellow group members.
Starring: Sarah Butler, Jen Landon, Doug McKeon, Gabriel Hogan, Harley Jane KozakHorror | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
English SDH, Spanish
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 0.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Out there it's all predators and prey.
I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine is a mostly forgettable entry in an unforgettable franchise that began way back in 1978 with
the
brutal rape/revenge film I Spit On Your Grave that was, decades later, remade and followed with a pedestrian, knockoff-style sequel. But that original remains a cult favorite and a "forbidden fruit" type
movie, a film that delivers as promised and remains as unsettling today as it felt over 35 years ago. But the shock factor has all but evaporated,
particularly with these new entries. Today's "anything goes" climate in the post Saw and Hostel eras has all but deadened the effect, as has the shiny, glossy
digital
texture that replaces the grittier film stock
that made the shock classics of old even all the more visually troubling. Watching men brutally
emasculated, sodomized, or otherwise tortured in painful ways in response to their actions still elicits that odd combination of squeamish yucks and
you-go-girl, stand-up-and-cheer responses, but the emotional effect barely lingers beyond the moment, let alone stays with the viewer for a
lifetime. It's become retune rather than shocking, expected rather than unexpected. The franchise feels like it's cashing in rather than saying
something about modern culture, empowering victims, or even just existing to merrily plaster a particularly nasty bit of understandable
eye-for-an-eye fantasy on the
screen.
Come and get me.
I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine features a dreary, gray-dominant 1080p transfer sourced from a digital shoot. The image is clean if not a little flat, but clarity is strong and details are revealing. Facial features are nicely complex, even underneath makeup. Clothing textures are crisp and backgrounds, even in dark alleys or warehouses, are nicely revealing. Colors, as noted, favor a heavy bleak, gray push. Red blood pops but there's not much vibrance to the smattering of hues seen throughout, whether multicolored signs and banners in the room where the support group meets or tool handles in a hardware store. Black levels waver between mild crush and excess paleness, favoring the latter. Light banding and macroblocking are also evident. The upper midrange digital source and bleak color scheme don't do the movie any favors, but it looks good enough within the confines of its constraints and intended shading.
I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine features a relatively simple Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack that enjoys some highlights but mostly flies under the radar. General clarity satisfiers across all areas of concern, from dialogue to music. There's never a sense of real, full, rich, lifelike atmospherics, though light dialogue reverberation echoes nicely enough through the support group meeting scenes and basic city din, noisy apartment neighbors, and city park backgrounds are adequately dispersed through the stage. Screams are piercing and the various sounds of torture are effective in adding to the intensity. The track won't push sound systems very far, but it does a fair job of brining the listener into the movie.
This Blu-ray release of I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine contains no supplemental content.
I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine unquestionably delivers what fans want, but it's still a frustrating experience. On one hand is a smattering of classic Spit revenge-minded violence, but on the other is a fascinating character study that's always on the precipice of finding a real, honest depth that never quite materializes in between segments of inhuman violence. Audiences looking for some juicy graphic violence will certainly walk away pleased, but somewhat more demanding viewers might leave frustrated considering the missed potential. Still, the movie will leave audiences thinking, either about improper uses for knives and pipes or the darker side of psychological trauma. Anchor Bay's featureless Blu-ray delvers solid enough video and audio. Rent it.
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