I Spit on Your Grave 2
I Spit on Your Grave 2 is definitely something else. A sequel to the remake, this movie does not continue from the first movie. We get a new victim, I mean final girl in Katie, a wannabe model in New York. Where the first one takes place in a desolate cabin in the woods, this one starts in a run down apartment building in New York, and then the rest of the movie is in Bulgaria. This time I Spit on Your Grave 2 touches on human trafficking. It barely touches on it but it does.
Photo Credit: Cinetel Films
Released: Aug 25, 2013
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Director: Steven R. Monroe
Writer: Neil Elman, Thomas Fenton
Actors: Jemma Dallender, Joe Absolom, Yavor Baharov
PLOT
Katie, an aspiring model, accepts free pictures from a photographer, and her life becomes a real nightmare. She soon endures rape, torture, and being kidnapped to Bulgaria. Will she survive her ordeal and exact the revenge she wants?
MY THOUGHTS
For this round of rape/revenge we get minimal deaths in that there are only five, and one of the guys is just an innocent neighbor of Katie’s. Though I got to say, I don’t feel like they even needed the nice guy in the beginning other than to say that Katie is resourceful with rat traps. He doesn’t even get a decent death. He’s just stabbed in the gut a few times and left to bleed out.
Now for the torture deaths, it’s a mixed bag. I find that Georgy, Valko, and to some extent Ivan’s deaths are pretty decent. Nicolay got drugged at a club with Ketamine and drowned in a toilet bowl full of shit. Gross yeah, but he deserved to be tortured more in my opinion.
Georgy had the extended death scene. He was the first one captured and strung up in his underwear. Katie cuts him all over including his face. She then puts some sort of food or rotten food all over the wounds. Over time they get infected and she punctures them with rebar, causing pus to come out. Eventually he dies from the wounds. I’m sure they hurt, and they were goey and blackened with infection.
The fat asshole Valco, who loves using electricity to torture Katie was pretty bad. She lures him out of a church and straps him to a table. Using the cattle prod he liked to use on her, she used him in very creative ways. I loved that she forced the prod into his mouth and then shocked him with it. Now, I don’t know what tool she shoved down his throat, but I want it. Yes, I can be a sick person. It was very effective. He eventually dies by electrocution.
Ivan was the head of the group of brothers and the photographer. He liked to beat Katie. So she straps him to a table and puts his testicles into a vice. And yes, you can guess, she slowly crushes his nuts. Now this is where I think his death sucks. A cop that Katie had asked for help found her and after Ivan tries to strangle her, the cop shoots Ivan in the head. Not a very satisfying death in my opinion.
The acting was just okay. At times Katie annoyed me with the amount of yelling and screaming she did. But I guess it was the choice the director went with. Other than the screaming I think Jemma Dallender did a decent job following in Camille Keaton and Sarah Butler’s footsteps.
Katie is an aspiring model who is told to get more professional pictures done for her portfolio. She’s living in New York and really can’t afford a good photographer. She finds an ad for free pictures and she tries it out.
When she shows up for the photo shoot, the guys are kind of creepy. The main photographer wants her to get nude and she doesn’t want to. One of the guys seems to really like her (just like Matthew, but unlike Matthew this guy Georgy doesn’t have a mental problem. He’s just creepy.) She leaves mad.
The next day, Georgy shows up at her apartment with the flash drive with her pictures on it. She says bye and he leaves, but he shows up later that night, barging into her apartment. He ties her down to rape her when a neigbor hears the commotion and unfortunately when he comes into her apartment, Georgy stabs him several times. Then he proceeds to rape Katie. When he’s done he calls his brothers to come and clean up his mess.
They drug Katie and when she wakes up she’s chained to a pole, lying naked on a dirty mattress in the basement. She’s assaulted by at least one of the guys. Eventually she suckers Georgy into unshackling her and she beats him and gets away.
Katie does the right thing and goes to the police. The cop is suspicious but calls in a woman who is a rape counselor who offers to clean her up and take her to the American Embassy. But of course, this woman, Ana, is actually the mother of the boys and just takes her back to the basement.
This time a major ass named Valko pays Ana to have a go at Katie. He really messes her up badly. And then Ivan beats her up. They then decide to dig a hole in their basement and bury her alive in a box.
What these idiots don’t know is that there’s a sewer/tunnel under the house so the box falls and Katie gets away. She ends up under a church where she is caught stealing by a priest. He wants to help her but she runs away.
Eventually she comes to the decision that she wants revenge rather than going to the embassy. She leaves a bible passage open about vengeance, where the priest can find it. The priest, concerned she may go too far, calls the cop from earlier.
Katie, one by one, lures each of the men to where she ends up torturing them. She even starts to take great revenge on Ana. Apparently Ana used to be raped by her husband, but now she uses women for money. Katie decides to keep her alive after Ana sees what happened to her boys.
She’s about to take care of Ivan when the cop shows up. Katie gets distracted and Ivan starts strangling her. The cop shoots him in the head, saving Katie. He apologizes to Katie but she doesn’t listen. She heads to the American Embassy, smiling.
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Overall, I can see I Spit on Your Grave 2 fits into the franchise. I know it gets a lot of hate, but I don’t think it’s that bad. The torture isn’t as inventive or as imaginative as in the original and the remake though. But the story isn’t that bad as well as the acting. If you are into the rape/revenge sub genre or a franchise completionist, then you should watch this.
And now for your Forever Final Girl Exclusive…Did you know?:
Although all of the films in this series deal with violent rape, this is the only one to also touch on human trafficking.
Despite taking place in New York City in the United States, none of the main cast are Americans, including Jemma Dallender and Michael Dixon, who both are from the United Kingdom.
When initially seen by the British Board of Film Classification in a rough cut form, the Board stated that the film would be rejected unless 27 cuts were made to remove almost four minutes of footage. Upon a formal submission to the BBFC, a pre-cut version was classified with an 18 rating without further cuts.
Have you seen the other I Spit on Your Grave movies? Check out my other reviews here: I Spit on Your Grave Franchise.
Let’s get into the rankings:
Kills/Blood/Gore: 3.5/5
Sex/Nudity: 3/5
Scare factor: 2.5/5
Enjoyment factor: 3/5
My Rank: 3/5
IMDB: 5.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes: critics: /10 audience: /10
Letterboxd: 2.4/5