Per the current remake rules of upping the ante, this time Jennifer (newcomer Sarah Butler) is raped not by four men, but five. Last year's remake tells the same sordid story, right down to retaining the characters' names. Instead of calling the police, Jennifer wills herself into a superwoman and takes bloody revenge on each of them. For one of them, the mentally handicapped Michael, it represents the loss of his innocence, in more ways than one.
Her solitude and very soul are shattered when four redneck locals gang-rape her. In the 1978 original, titled "Day of the Woman" before a re-release a couple of years later, Jennifer (Camille Keaton, grandniece of Buster) retreats to a cabin in the woods to write her first novel. And that is: Can't it be a little of both?
Now that I've seen it, I can throw an educated two cents into the ongoing debate of whether the controversial thriller exploits women or rather is a misunderstood champion of feminism. Never did I give "Spit" a try, nor did I want to, until its Blu-ray debut, released simultaneously with its 2010 remake of the same name, when curiosity finally got the best of me. Being 9 at the time, I was so freaked out, I vowed never to watch the rape-revenge film they so viciously, venomously attacked.
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