They’re also just plain weird, over the top and sometimes depraved country hicks who aren’t even scary for much of the time, just irritating if occasionally funny. Deja Vu takes that idea as a starting point, but largely screws it up because we aren’t made to feel nearly enough sympathy for these affected people, and therefore aren’t made to sympathise with their own crusade of revenge much. These people might not even have any idea of the things that the killed ones got up to. Jennifer kills her rapists in 1978, but nobody thinks about the friends and family who would be badly affected, probably for life, by these deaths. If you see a villain coming towards you with a knife, would you really turn your back on him and start banging on a door?Įven die-hard fans of the original are probably unlikely to say that its story needed continuation, but nonetheless the basic premise for the sequel does have merit and could work if the film was inclined to really examine the issues raised. Does the result still work in places despite all this? It does, but only very sporadically, and requires you to have to overlook some things that are damn hard to overlook, like several scenes where people just turn up at the right place and time to push the film onto the next scene almost as if they have psychic powers and teleportation devices, or awesomely idiotic behaviour by our two heroines. This might be understandable if it was well directed, but Zarchi seems to have lost much of the crude but undeniably effective skill he displayed in the original, with its flashes of cleverness such as the playing with the male gaze in some of the early scenes. But this is basically just a revenge thriller, yet it seems that Zarchi was just unwilling to cut anything from his film even though he’s had loads of time to do so if he wished. Of course I have no problem with extremely slow dialogue-heavy films if the dialogue is good, the acting is good, and this approach suits the kind of film it’s trying to be. The film is rather like a rough cut that hasn’t been edited down properly, with a lot of scenes that go on for ages or are just plain unnecessary. While I’ll say right now that it does have a lot of other problems, the main one is that darn length. Seeing the incredibly low rating that the film has on the IMDB, one could assume that it was because it was of very low quality. The long-in-coming sequel to I Spit On Your Grave was written by the writer/director of the original a long time ago, and seems to have actually been made several years ago, but its distribution was either held back – or it struggled to get a distributor. How on earth could it be so long? It would have to be really good indeed to justify that length. Mother and daughter desperately need to find each other but they’re in very hostile territory….ġ48 minutes? Those were the words I uttered in astonishment to myself when I ordered I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu. After nearly being hung by Herman, the equally mentally challenged father of Matthew who Jennifer also killed, Jennifer escapes, but by this time Christy has been taken somewhere else. However, the past comes back to haunt both of them when they’re suddenly kidnapped by Becky, the widow of Johnny one of the rapists that Jennifer killed, and her two sons. She also has a daughter, Christy, who’s become a very successful model. She wrote a book about the ordeal and is now working as a rape counsellor. It’s 40 years after Jennifer Hills killed off the men who horribly raped her and then left her for dead. WARNING! MAJOR SPOILER IN PARAGRAPH FIVE! REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Starring: Camille Keaton, Jamie Bernadette, Jim Tavare, Maria OlsenĪVAILABLE ON REGION ‘A’ BLU-RAY, DVD AND AMAZON PRIME

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