Revenge
Directed by Coralie Fargeat
Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend, which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts until the situation abruptly––and viciously––intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, Jen survives and reemerges with a relentless, wrathful intent: revenge. A white-knuckle tale of transgression and transformation, REVENGE gloriously blurs the lines of vengeance and survival while delivering a ferocious dissection of gender and genre. Director Coralie Fargeat announces her stunning arrival, painting a crimson canvas of hypnotic beauty and bloody retribution in this razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller. A SHUDDER ORIGINAL.
A young woman takes vengeance on the three married men who left her for dead in the boldest, bloodiest film of the year.
Cast: Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchede, Jean-Louis Tribes
Member Reviews
Of all the tropes, rape-revenge is the most eye-roll inducing, hack film device using violent exploitation of women’s bodies in lieu of developing a competent story. After watching Fargeat’s execution, all I could do was sigh and say “FINALLY!”. Her technical skill behind the camera, slick style, and beautiful practical effect gore-fest-brutality create something entirely original and utterly captivating. She is a filmmaker who is clearly going places. This is a must-watch.
hell yeah
I'm generally not a fan of rape revenge movies. . . Probably because they've always been written and filmed by men, and their priority is on making an exploitative rape scene. What a shocker that it took a female writer and director to finally make a great revenge movie. :)
Um…did I miss a supernatural component in this movie? If there wasn’t, I’m not understanding how anyone could lose the copious amounts of blood the characters were shown to lose and still not only still be alive but be very active. It was so irrational and unrealistic on so many levels, I gave three skulls just because I watched the whole thing to see what ridiculousness was coming next.
Simple, but effective!