Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Meir Zarchi |
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| Writer: | Meir Zarchi |
| Staring: |
| A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 02, 1978 |
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| Director: | Meir Zarchi |
| Writer: | Meir Zarchi |
| Genres: | Horror, Thriller |
| Keywords | rape, castration, revenge, gang rape, writer, cruelty, brutality, hanging, misogyny, mentally handicapped man, rape and revenge, video nasty, emasculation, left for dead, independent film, banned film |
| Production Companies | Cinemagic Pictures, The Jerry Gross Organization, Deja Vu LLC. |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $80,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Camille Keaton | Jennifer Hills |
| Eron Tabor | Johnny |
| Richard Pace | Matthew Lucas |
| Anthony Nichols | Stanley |
| Gunter Kleemann | Andy |
| Alexis Magnotti | Johnny's Wife |
| Tammy Zarchi | Johnny's Daughter |
| Terry Zarchi | Johnny's Son |
| Traci Ferrante | Waitress |
| William Tasgal | Porter |
| Isaac Agami | Butcher |
| Ronit Haviv | Supermarket Girl |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Meir Zarchi | Writer, Director, Editor |
| Nouri Haviv | Director of Photography |
| Armine Minassian | Makeup Artist |
| Michael Penland | First Assistant Director |
| William Tasgal | Special Effects |
| Joan Puma | Makeup Artist |
| Beriau Picard | Special Effects, Second Assistant Director |
| Michel Carton | Sound Mixer |
| Alex Pfau | Sound Effects Editor |
| Steven Sklar | Sound Recordist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Meir Zarchi | Producer |
| Joseph Zbeda | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2024 | 4 | 31 | 38 | 23 |
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| 2025 | 2 | 19 | 29 | 4 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 974 | 974 |
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The thing about this film that I find most difficult to fathom, other than why it was made in the first place, is why it's seen as such an important work. At the end of the film, I didn't have the slightest notion that I had seen anything that informed me or had done me any good whatsoever. I'm all ... for films that challenge, that rattle cages, as long as they have a point to make. I can sit through the most abhorrent, violent, perverse,terrifying and disturbing film, as long as when the credits roll, I feel I've learned something, either about a subject and/or myself by doing so. With this, there's no such insight to be gained. It's a nasty film, devoid of any purpose other than to shock and disgust. In these two objectives at least, it succeeds.
A movie I really didn't care much for upon my first viewing (circa 2011) but kind of appreciate more today. Unnerving to say the least with a brutal sexual assault followed by the revenge portion for the third act that's not entirely satisfying but still well done as a whole. One thing I noticed tod ... ay that I didn't 10 years ago was the lack of a score or soundtrack which gives the movie a haunting tone. Camille Keaton gives a great performance and the guys do well as absolute psychopaths and creeps. **3.5/5**