Film

I Spit on Your Grave 2

Name: I Spit on Your Grave 2
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Crime
Released: 2013
Cast: Jemma Dallender, Joe Absolom, Aleksandar Aleksiev, Yavor Baharov, Mary Stockley

A revenge-thriller about a kidnapped American model in Bulgaria who endures horrific captivity before turning the tables on her abusers. Blunt, brutal, and graphically violent, it's exploitation cinema that doesn't flinch or apologize. Made for viewers who want transgressive thrills without moral hand-wringing.

TMDb rating

3.2

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you want a lean, mean exploitation thriller that makes no pretence of being anything but a grim, sweaty trap, and you can stomach brutality as the engine that drives it.

Skip it if you need a story with well-drawn characters or a slow, earned build, because this moves quickly into abuse and cruelty and offers little beyond its own nastiness.

What it asks of you: It asks you to endure a long stretch of captivity and cruelty with little relief, across a runtime just under two hours.

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Revenge2017

Coralie Fargeat's sun-scorched rape-revenge film matches *I Spit* beat-for-beat in brutality and visual precision, but elevates it with painterly cinematography and a sense of style that feels almost operatic.

But It's equally graphic and uncompromising. If the first film felt exploitative to you, this won't convert you—it's just prettier.

Martyrs2008

Pascal Laugier's French New Extremity nightmare puts its protagonist through unimaginable suffering as a springboard for philosophical inquiry. Transgressive, unrelenting, and genuinely unsettling.

But This one lingers on pain in ways that feel almost punitive. It's not cathartic like *I Spit*—it's much colder and harder to sit with.

The Seasoning House2012

A deaf girl imprisoned in a human trafficking house plots her escape from within a Balkan warzone. As brutally intimate as *I Spit* but tighter, more focused, and with a protagonist whose vulnerability makes the violence cut deeper.

But The subject matter is unutterably dark. There's no humor, no relief, no sense that this is fun—it's pure desperation and survival.

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The wildcard

Something you would not have found on your own.

A Prophet2009

Both explore captivity and institutional horror as psychological transformation, but *Prophet* asks what suffering makes you become, while *I Spit* asks what it justifies—completely different moral frameworks.

Jacques Audiard's prison epic about a young man's brutal initiation into criminal society. Lean, intelligent violence that builds into something almost Shakespearean. French cinema at its most potent.

But It's a three-hour slow-burn that demands patience. The payoff is spiritual transcendence, not revenge—if you want visceral thrills, it's too deliberate.

A Dark Song2016

Liam Garrigan's occult drama about grief and redemption has the same obsessive, revenge-adjacent energy as *I Spit*, but channels it into something metaphysical and ultimately transcendent rather than retaliatory.

But It's slow, cryptic, and resolves itself on spiritual rather than violent terms. If you're here for vengeance, this deflates that need.

Ms .451981

Abel Ferrara's proto-revenge classic about a mute seamstress who becomes a masked vigilante after sexual assault. Low-budget, grimy, and psychologically fractured—the ur-text for everything *I Spit* does.

But The 80s video quality and pacing feel glacial now. It's also deliberately ambiguous about whether her rampage is justice or psychosis.

Found2012

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' micro-budget horror about a boy discovering his older brother is a serial killer. Transgressive and genuinely disturbing in ways that bypass gore entirely—pure psychological dread.

But It's aggressively low-fi and unglamorous. Some will find it more tedious than transgressive; others will find it genuinely unwatchable.

Citadel2012

Ciaran Foy's Irish horror-thriller about a father protecting his daughter from hooded figures in a condemned housing estate. Claustrophobic, paranoid, and escalates its violence with real consequences.

But It's less a revenge film and more a siege. The logic gets murky; the ending feels arbitrary rather than cathartic.

Raw2017

Julia Ducournau's cannibalism-as-awakening film is graphically transgressive but committed to exploring desire, identity, and bodily autonomy. Gorgeously shot and genuinely provocative.

But It's more artistic provocation than exploitation thriller. If you want genre thrills, the philosophy might feel self-indulgent.

The Collection2012

A torture-house thriller where the victim becomes the hunter, set against a single confined location. Lean, mean, with practical effects and an escalating sadism that doesn't look away.

But The confined setting gets repetitive. After two hours of people being killed in elaborately booby-trapped rooms, the novelty wears thin.