Since I have slept something like 24 hours in the last 48 I was up late last night. So I decided to cruise the depths of the premium movie channels to see what was on. Starz and The Movie Channel provided some hits.
First up I Spit on Your Grave (1978) (rewatch).
The older I get I find my tolerance for "torture porn" lessens. I have seen this movie a number of times and this time I wanted to focus on some the horror I might have missed in the sea of exploitation. Camille Keaton must have went through a real hell in filming this.
I have now seen the remake and I see there are a host of sequels including one that continues Camille Keaton's Jenifer as an author several decades later. Morbid curiosity of course calls to me on this, but I doubt I'll go out of my way to watch it.
In a similar vein I also caught Girl House (2015) (FTV).
This is simple slasher flick with a crazy dude obsessed with a cam girl. Given that this is about an "x-rated" cam show there is surprising very little nudity from our star. That's fine. The crazy dude, "Loverboy" is more of the focus here. It's an effective mix of both old-school slasher and new-school "the internet is watching" mentality. Special shout outs go to Camren Bicondova ("Selena Kylie/Cat" on Gotham) as Loverboy's first victim as a child and Wesley MacInnes as the happles voyeur who watches the horror unfold on the cam shows. He had the best line in the movie, "I am going to so need therapy." Had to be there for it I think. The movie needed more Nicole Fox in my opinion.
Watching these back to back I noticed that "I Spit on Your Grave" really set the tone for the modern slasher film. Not just tone, but how some of the shots were done.
And no. My son did not watch these with me.
2016 Movie tally
Watched: 30
New: 23
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