Tag: Rape Revenge Cinema
Part 3 – Divine Vengeance In part 1 and part 2, by examining grindhouse classics Last House on the Left (1972), Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973), and I Spit on Your Grave (1978), we traced the mortal evolution of the victim in the rape-revenge genre from a mere plot device for male heroism to a
One: The Muted Victim and the Male Surrogate Accounts of sexual violence are as old as recorded history. The earliest incidences existed side-by-side with the oldest tales of murder; the slaying of Abel by Cain is only a handful of chapters away from the rape of Dinah by Shechem in Genesis. But unlike the physical