Often considered the lowest depth to which the cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film has been dismissed as exploitative and sensational, catering to a demented demographic. She doesn’t know where she is going, harldly knows what she is doing, but she knows that she has had enough. And, while it was common for telenovelas of the 80s to allow poor women to marry rich. The femme fatale rape-revenger is an erotic display with a just cause, a combination of the angry male vigilante and the murderous female femme fatale, a justified killer with the mission to educate men who have not adjusted to modern society. If their stories were not being told, I decided, they did not matter.
The subgenre is born from crossing rape as a motive with the vigilante movie, and its key scene is the protagonist’s transformation from victim to avenger. The rape-avenger is a woman who is raped and kills the man, or men, who raped her. In some cases, the woman is killed at the end of the first act, and the “revenge” is carried out by her family, as in Last House on the Left. Rape and revenge films (rape/revenge) are a subgenre of exploitation film that was particularly popular in the 1970s.Rape/revenge movies generally follow the same three act structure:Īct I: A woman is raped/gang raped, tortured, and left for dead.Īct II: The woman survives and rehabilitates herself.Īct III: The woman takes revenge and kills all of her rapists. “It’s no longer a man’s world " -tagline for Ms.
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