![]() ![]() It is interesting to learn of his start in the industry as scriptwriter on Israeli films before his move to America which would see him gear up to direct his notorious debut. ![]() He would walk out of the theatre after seeing such classics as Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Sunset Boulevard (1950) and vow that his future was in filmmaking.Īs a child he saved up to buy a Bolex, shot home movies with friends and ran strips of 16mm film through a magic lantern. Meir’s is the classic story of the little kid who was enchanted by going to the movies. He approaches it from a personal, family perspective: He details his old man’s upbringing in Israel. Meir’s son Terry Zarchi is at the helm of this retrospective celebration of the original film and its legacy. ![]() Growing Up With I Spit On Your Grave (2019) It’s the latter two titles we’ll be focusing on here seeing as both features make their UK debut with the release of the Kaleidoscope boxset. Which brings us to the good folks at Kaleidoscope Entertainment’s spanking new Blu-ray boxset I Spit On Your Grave: The Complete Collection which not only includes the original 1978 cinematic pariah but also the 2010 remake of the same name, its two sequels I Spit On Your Grave 2 (2013) and I Spit On Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine (2015), Zarchi’s own direct sequel to his original I Spit On Your Grave: Déjà Vu (2019) and recent official feature length documentary Growing Up With I Spit On Your Grave (2019) courtesy of Zarchi’s son Terry Zarchi. Its notoriety has also kept director Zarchi’s hat in the ring so to speak – as, apart from the half decent gritty street drama Don’t Mess With My Sister (1985) he has managed to sustain a career in ‘the biz’ with the film’s many re-releases, remakes, remake sequels and ultimately his own sequel to the original. Look at it however you want, even if calling it ‘entertainment’ is pushing it, you can’t deny the power the film yields and the lasting divisiveness it has achieved through the decades. One of the most notorious titles on the famous early 1980s DPP list of ‘video nasties’ was Meir Zarchi’s 1978 grubby rape-and-revenge shocker I Spit on Your Grave (aka Day of the Woman) a film so controversial in its extensive portrayal of a gang of country ‘bumpkins’ taking it in turns to rape city girl Jennifer Hills (Buster Keaton’s grand-daughter Camille Keaton), and her subsequent gruesome revenge, that it still repulses audiences to this day.Īdding to its infamy are the continuing, subsequent debates over the film’s merits and reappraisals from reviewers, scholars and its creator defending it as a feminist picture, with its torrents of sexual violence and objectification of the film’s female lead serving as an unbearable build up to a satisfying catharsis of violence and emasculation towards Keaton’s male attackers. “More blackly comical and self-aware than the original, ‘I Spit On Your Grave: Déjà vu’ is a non-stop rollercoaster ride into the backwoods of hell… a gnarly, well-constructed romper that sits nicely alongside the original’s own remakes” We'll just have to sit back and wait for some more news about that.❉ We cover two new features making their UK debut in ‘I Spit On Your Grave: The Complete Collection’. There does not appear to be plans for a wide release at this time, but that could change in the coming weeks. Hopefully some lucky fans will get to see a limited theatrical release. However, the trailer does reveal that it will be available on Blu-ray on April 23rd, which is just right around the corner. I am grateful and humbled to be part of the I Spit on Your Grave legacy"Īs far as when I Spit on Your Grave Deja Vu will be out, it doesn't look like it will be getting a theatrical release. The role proved to be one of the most trying of my career but simultaneously, one of the most rewarding. "Playing the daughter of Jennifer Hills was an incredible honor having been a fan of the original film long before my first audition for the sequel. Bernadette had this to say about starring in I Spit on Your Grave Deja Vu. ![]() I Spit on Your Grave Deja Vu is being described as a game of either "hunt or be hunted," and promises an explosive follow up to "the most controversial tale of an eye-for-an-eye ever committed to celluloid." The trailer sure does seem to hint at some pretty explosive visuals that will certainly get fans of the original movie excited for the upcoming release of the sequel. Now, Jennifer Hills and her daughter, played by Jamie Bernadette, have been kidnapped by the deranged revenge-seeking relatives of the men Jennifer killed so long ago. ![]()
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