It’s The Day of the Woman Again – I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu Wraps Production
By Ben Bussey
You may recall the somewhat unexpected news just over a year ago that Meir Zarchi and Camille Keaton were reuniting on an exceedingly belated sequel to the original rape revenge censor-baiter I Spit On Your Grave. Well, now we’ve had word that I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu is in the can – along with our first look at Camille Keaton reprising her signature role of Jennifer Hills.
Here’s the skinny direct from the official I Spit On Your Grave site:
“37 years after the release of the controversial 1978 cult classic I Spit On Your Grave, Camille Keaton has reunited with director Meir Zarchi to reprise her role of Jennifer Hills in its direct sequel, I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu.
I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu is the only sequel that shares characters as well as continuity with the original 1978 motion picture Day of the Woman a.k.a. I Spit On Your Grave.
Following her brutal rape, Jennifer wrote a best-selling account of her ordeal and of the controversial trial in which she was accused of taking the law into her own hands and ruthlessly killing her assailants. In the small town where the rape and revenge took place, the relatives of the four rapists she killed are furious that the court declared her not guilty and resolve to take justice into their own hands.
The original I Spit On Your Grave was inspired by Meir Zarchi’s experience with a victim of rape. After stumbling upon a teenage girl in a park in the aftermath of a violent assault, Zarchi began to imagine how a woman in this situation might fantasize about revenge. Moreover, he wanted to depict to the audience the real horrors of rape.
In this new chapter, Jennifer Hills is joined by her daughter Christy (Jamie Bernadette) as well as a variety of new characters, including Maria Olsen who plays the role of Johnny’s wife, the gas station attendant Jennifer castrated; Jim Tavare in the role of Herman, whose son Matthew was hung by Jennifer, as well as by actors Jonathan Peacy, Jeremy Ferdman, Holgie Forrester, Roy Allen and Alexandra Kenworthy.
“I always envisioned Camille Keaton returning to continue the saga of Jennifer Hills,” said Zarchi. “Getting together with Camille to film the sequel was a surreal, deja-vu-like experience”.
Produced by Terry Zarchi and Jan O’Connell, I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu is currently in post production.”
Hard to know what to expect of this movie until we see a trailer, but this is one we’ll be following with interest nonetheless.
On a side note, the second sequel to the 2010 I Spit On Your Grave remake, I Spit On Your Grave 3: Vengeance Is Mine is out now on DVD, strangely we haven’t been sent a review copy, presumably as we weren’t too kind to the last one… and in addition, 2010’s I Spit On Your Grave is set to screen on UK’s Horror Channel next week on Friday 13th November, with 2013’s I Spit On Your Grave 2 screening a week later on 20th November.
