A chronicle of a woman's rape and her brutal revenge, I Spit On Your Grave is a violent slice of grimy horror that was met with fierce opposition upon its release in 1978. The critics who disliked it didn't pull their punches; Roger Ebert called the movie "so sick, reprehensible and contemptible" that he could barely believe it existed, condemning it as "a film without a shred of artistic distinction." And it wasn't just critics who rejected the film for its violence—for a surprisingly long period, entire countries wanted nothing to do with it.
Canada initially banned the movie, later allowing individual provinces to decide if it would be allowed within their borders during the 1990s. The U.K. would only allow the movie to be released in censored form, while Norway, Iceland, and West Germany banned it outright on the premise that it supported violence against women.
Weirdly, the movie was only banned in Australia almost 20 years after its initial release—a largely ineffective move, considering how many copies were already in circulation by then. The ban was rescinded in 2004, but not all countries have been so lenient as the years have gone by: in Ireland, the film remains banned to this day.
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