Also known as Day of the Women.
I should have maybe ranked the "well known" Nasties, and if I had, this would have clearly been up there as well known. This and The Last House on the Left both somehow broke through a little bit, and I'm sure that the many many full nude scenes and sex scenes had something to do with it. Interesting that around the time before there was anything truly pornographic in theaters, there were already films with heavy sexual violence. I think that absolutely says something about the creature known as the human being.
Jennifer is on a writing retreat somewhere by a river and is being bothered by the locals. They ogle her, they are loud. Its fairly innocent until 20 minutes in they start to bother her while she's on her boat. They tie a rope to her boat, tow her to shore, and collectively rape her over the next 30 or so minutes, taking turns and changing locations, and even heavily implying anal rape. Direct references were removed by censors, it did in fact used to be explicit.
Beaten, defeated, raped, Jennifer tracks them down with vengeance in mind. I mean, the thing about this movie is that it was critically panned and called the most vile or violent or hateful or whatever movie of all time when it was released. It is pretty light on gore, there's a penis chopping scenes that is sorta the worst of it, which is truly something that I can't watch, not to sound like a little bitch.
Extremely well acted, linear, small in scope, and without much else to focus on, this is actually quite well made. You obviously have like 30 something minutes of sexual violence, and if that isn't for you, well its a deal breaker. Its not that it seems quaint specifically now, its just that thankfully it is the least professionally done aspect of the film, it seems almost comedic in acting and some of the depiction - lots of overacting on the males parts. So...I dunno, what I'm saying is freakily enough I have seen worse.
Argument for Video Nasty.
5/10 on the Nasty Meter.
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