This effect is very annoying and probably even unintended.Īnother censorship method is repeating several frames towards the beginning of a scene in order to be able to cut out a the ending of this sequence. If the lower part of the image had to be censored, the zoomed image completely fills out the whole screen (and therefore also the parts where the black bars resulting from the original film size should be). What's really annoying about these short moments is the fact that every time a scene was zoomed, the film size changes. Even though there are other scenes that include excessive nudity, the scenes that had to be shortened/altered all concern rape scenes (so it is all about context). The BBFC refers the "new material" aspect to 5 scenes of the movie, where the UK version shows a zoomed image section, resulting in less explicit material.
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As opposed to a lot of R-Rated movies (where the MPAA tells the producers how to cut the movie), the British version does not include alternative material in the proper meaning of the word. It's a little misleading to talk about "new material". This has resulted in a running time difference of 21 seconds between the original submission and the classified version. The distributor made all the cuts, but in some instances substituted new material for the removed footage. The BBFC required 43 seconds of cuts to this film. In their report about the movie the BBFC wrote: While recent movies such as "The Expendables" are only censored to receive a lower BBFC rating but still are released in their uncensored form, I Spit On Your Grave could not receive a BBFC-18 rating without cutting out several scenes. It looks like they're going to pass down this tradition to the remake. This makes the movie one of the few ones that are not accessable in an uncensored version in the UK (despite the high BBFC rating). In 2010, they finally re-released the movie in the "Most complete version ever released in the UK" - unfortunately this means, that this version "only" misses out on 3 minutes. Thanks to the inclusion on the infamous "Video Nasties"-list, the movie for years could only be purchased in a version that misses out on roughly 7 minutes. In the UK, even the original movie has a long story of censorship-issues. In February 2011, exactly this version was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the USA. The cinema posters all included a huge "Unrated"-overprint. Because of these massive extend of censorship issues, the producers of the movie asked Anchor Bay to do a pretty unusual move: Due to the extensive cuts they would have been forced to do in order to receive an R-Rating from the MPAA (in the DVD's audio commentary they talk about more than 100 cuts!) they released I Spit On Your Grave in its original version only. If you know what the movie is about it should come as no surprise that the producers had to face several censorship-issues (especially because they wanted to stick to the original movie as much as possible). Meir Zarchi was the producer of the remake and he reommended watching it - so if you're a fan of the original, give it a try. And even though Jennifer Hill's revenge towards the end of the movie is a little too heavily inspired by modern torture movies (such as "Saw"), the main mood of the original is still there in the remake - a quality that can't be said about the "Last House on the Left"-remake.
The 2010 version's rape sequence is a little shorter but still very intensive and gruesome.
However, it has to be mentioned that the rape scene of the 1978 version of I Spit On Your Grave is about 45 minutes long and absolutely not for the faint-hearted. Both remakes have something in common - the rape scenes are a little more explicit than in the original and the revenge in the second half of the movie is way more brutal. After they remade Wes Craven's The Last House On The Left in 2009, they then had a focus on Meir Zarchi's infamous I Spit On Your Grave (which by the way was called Day Of The Woman when it first ran in theatres in 1978) just one year later. By now, they even remake Rape'N'Revenge movies. The remake-trend obviously won't come to an end soon. * 1 repetition of a scene to cover up a cut Comparison between the shortened British DVD released by Anchor Bay (BBFC 18) and the uncut US DVD released by Anchor Bay (Unrated)
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