I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)

Perfectly adorable

Fantastic!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Me personally I liked the movie. I do not think it was as good as the first movie, but it was miles better than the third movie. I was going to try and give an honest review without spoilers, but I just don't think I can. Most of the abuse in the movie was very believable, good acting all the way around. The problem I had was how she escaped death. It's just not believable at all. Unlike the first movie. Every part of that movie had me glued to the TV trying to figure out what was going to happen next.This one though, while it kept you entertained. I just feel the torture scenes were just bleh. It seemed to me that they wanted to try and out do the first movie in the torture department, but it fell short. It fell way short. It was just too..... I don't really know how to put it into words. It was torture to torture. Unlike the first movie where it was still torture, but the bad guys were technically torturing themselves. Or I guess a better way to explain is that they were torture traps. This movie though it was just her torturing them to death. I'm sorry, while I really enjoyed the movie. I just think if fell a little short. But it's a sequel. You kind of expect it.

As a large fan of the 2010 remake of ISOYG, I was glad to hear of a sequel which I watched promptly not long after the original remake. Essentially, the film is very similar to the first and one would not be incorrect to say that ISOYG2 is the same movie as the 2010 remake, in a different location with different characters. The plot is again similar to that of the first film; A woman is abused horrendously by insane tormentors, repeatedly raped and then recovers against all odds to exact her revenge.It would be useful for those thinking of watching ISOYG2 to note that the scenes of sexual violence are much higher in impact than those of the 2010 film and are fairly confronting. This disturbing feel can be attributed to the acting of Jemma Dallendar which I found to be highly realistic and deserving of an Oscar (as many are saying). At this point in the film, the desired effect was being achieved nicely. Again, the viewer begins to feel hatred for the victim's abusers, hence making the later revenge scenes more satisfying. So far so good at this point in time. Yet this sequel features a lacking of the suspense that worked so well in the 2010 film. This can be justified as in this sequel, we do witness the recovery of the victim (Katie). The revenge scenes are also fairly less satisfying than those portrayed in the original remake as they are more basic (this was most likely done in an attempt to make Katie's revenge more 'believable'). It was due to this that I was often left wishing that Katie had done more to torture and deliver justice to her attackers.So whilst the first half is mental torture to watch and does it's job to disturb (whilst many recent horrors don't), the movie then fails to deliver what we all anticipated in the second halfYet still a very good rape-revenge horror film, although definitely inferior to the 2010 remake. Although do note that I have found viewing ISOYG2 to be enjoyable (if that's the right word) and this has subsequently prompted me to watch the next installment in the franchise. An 8/10 for being one of the few horrors to disturb me, yet I must say again, the disappointments of the films second half mean that it is inferior to its predecessor.

I found this movie to be in total distaste...unless you are a feminist. This is man bashing/woman hero at it's worst. If you like to see women getting revenge on men. This movie is for you. Its violent and disgusting, and men die in the most gory, horrific ways. If you like blood, and violence against men. You will love this movie. If you value human life and "real" equality. This movie will exhaust and upset you. Feminists...go for it. Its just more porn for you, made by you. Anyone with a soul...watch something else. You will be glad you did. This is nothing more than just a man hating movie and there is no real plot anyway.

A sequel to a remake of a video nasty doesn't sound like it's going to be a classic, and the straight-to-DVD I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE 2 is about as good as you'd expect it to be, i.e. not very. It's an unconnected sequel to the first film in which - once again - an attractive young woman is subjected to a horrific ordeal of rape and humiliation at the hands of a gang of thugs, before eventually enacting her revenge.I despise rape sequences in films and am always tempted to fast forward through them. They go on for an age here, with the whole of the first hour taken up with the lead's ordeal. It's just unpleasant, and has zero entertainment factor. The film has a cheaper look to it than the first, with British leads standing in for American characters and filming in Sofia, Bulgaria, which makes it look as depressing as you'd expect.Eventually, there's more extreme nastiness to come, but it feels tiresome and vindictive here. The film as a whole isn't as shocking or as disturbing as the first because you've come to expect it by now and it all feels very familiar and even the plot twists from the first are merely copied. The cast isn't too bad - Jemma Dallender already has form with the low budget British horror COMMUNITY, while Joe Absolom was once a bad guy on EASTENDERS - it's just that the pedestrian nature of the writing makes this a bore to watch.