Œil pour œil

Un film amateur, très naturaliste et brutal sur un viol brutal et la vengeance sanglante qui s'en suit. Pas de musique, pas de caractérisation des personnages, aucune retenue dans la représentation de la violence. Une grande ouverture sexuelle. De plus, une atmosphère ou une poétique absolument nulle, des dialogues horribles et l'une des pires performances d'acteurs que j'ai jamais vues. L'évaluer d'un point de vue cinématographique, "ordure" serait trop louangeur. Cependant, l'évaluer du point de vue de l'impact sur moi, je lui donne une étoile. C'est un film que vous devez regarder seul, uniquement en compagnie de votre intimité et de votre écran de télévision. C'est seulement alors que vous laisserez libre cours à votre voyeurisme, à la cruauté naturelle profondément enfouie en vous, et à votre désir de violence, justifié inconsciemment par le mot "justice". (25/08/2002)

Director and screenwriter Meir Zarchi deserves a thorough examination in a psychiatric clinic, I think his psychological profile would be really worth seeing. I see it like this: Zarchi and his mates got together and said "Guys, let's rent a camera, go to Gunther's cabin and shoot some brutal stuff there over the weekend. We'll take Camille, she's up for any mischief and it won't cost us anything, just the petrol and the paint. It doesn't matter that we don't know shit about filmmaking and that there are unbelievable logical flaws in the script, which I fucked up in twenty minutes, everyone will watch it anyway just out of curiosity."… I have to agree with those who summed up the qualities of this film on imdb by slightly changing its title "I Spit on this Crap!". And on top of that, it’s terribly boring. (22/09/2003)

Today I finally filled this gap in my horror education and I must say that I’m really glad I have it behind me. The rape scenes are disgusting – I can’t understand people who enjoy watching something like this (as it’s shown here) – and the rest is very boring. In any case, it was an interesting experience, but ending up more bored than shocked after watching the most legendary exploitation film ever is something I really wasn’t expecting. (27/09/2008)

Involuntary triple penetration is definitely painful, no question about it. But while the protagonist suffers here, the rest amounts to torture of good taste. The narrative amateurism with a clear attempt to shock (rape/revenge) becomes more unsympathetic as the minutes go by, due to the drawn-out chattiness and plot emptiness. I still don't see the art in the camera under/over views, nor is it always automatically emotionally up to par when a numb diva runs naked through the woods to escape a screaming bunch of horny men. A more sensitive viewer might close their eyes during the professional castration, but I really have no idea how much the person who put this film in the top ten most disturbing films of all time must have watched in their life. (15/11/2007)

A "film" whose distribution should be banned, its fans silenced and its name never spoken again. I'm not saying this because of the infamous brutality, which by today's standards will shock no one anyway, but because Zarchi created one of the cheapest and most illogical films imaginable. Wretched in terms of filmmaking and acting, empty of thought and unbearably boring, trying to attack the most repulsive and twisted motives of the human mind that every normal individual is ashamed of and would prefer to eradicate completely from the face of the earth. An idiocy and an abomination that made me sick and left me wondering how far they can sink my beloved art of filmmaking. I like the remake a million times more. (01/09/2013)