I Spit on Your Grave 3
Third times is not a charm
In I Spit on Your Grave 3, ISOYG picks up with Angela (Jennifer Hills) in recovery trying to adjust after her trauma. In this movie the rhetoric and man hating gets ratchetted up. Early on Angela teams up with a fellow therapy team member and engage in some street justice and intimidation of sex predators. When Marla is raped and killed, it sends Angela, who already has issues, over the edge.
Just like in its predecessor movies, there are more male assholes. The man at the bus stop checking out her ass, the serial date seeking co-worker, the park thugs and the old asshole at the bar, to name a few.
ISOYG3 has greater depth as the storyline explores rape counseling, and the feelings of trapped women the suffering of other types of people who are survivors of rape and the powerlessness of victims and ineptness of the criminal justice system.
The movie moves from Angela's flashbacks of revenge killing, to fantasy killing during confrontational situations to the flat-out entrapment and predatory killing of Marla's ex-boyfriend. There is more humiliation and wetting of pants, stun gunning, rectal violation with pipes and of course, the cutting off of male genitals.
As Angela moves from victim to predator, her character becomes more pathological as she seeks more and more vengeance. During this process, it now becomes difficult to continue to sympathize with Angela as other people in her therapy group are now under suspicion for two of the murders which she committed, and which she accused other for her deeds. Despite this, her revenge killing continues.
Ultimately, the police home in on Angela and learn here true identity, Jennifer Hills, and now Angela is the main suspect in multiple revenge killings. This issue is not resolved but we find out towards the end of the movie that Angela was incarcerated for two years and it appears that her discussions with her therapist were while she was in a correctional or psychiatric facility. Though she's getting out, it is clear that she still has homicidal visions or fantasies. Though the movie has more depth, any sense of sympathy that she had gained was lost. Now it would appear that she is simply a psychotic killer.
At this point, the genre has descended into such debauchery as to lose its initial message, that you hope that they don't make any more.
