# I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine
*I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine* is a 2015 American rape-revenge horror film and the third entry in the remake-era *I Spit on Your Grave* series, serving as a direct sequel to the 2010 remake while disregarding the plot of the intervening 2013 film *[I Spit on Your Grave 2](https://www.edgepedia.org/i-spit-on-your-grave-2)*.[1](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine) Sarah Butler returns as Jennifer Hills, a rape survivor who, after joining a therapy group for victims, takes vigilante revenge against the perpetrators of crimes against women in her circle.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spit_on_your_grave_3_vengeance_is_mine_2015)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | Theatrically October 9, 2015; DVD and Blu-ray October 20, 2015 through Anchor Bay Entertainment[3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine/) • [4](https://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/movies/7692/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine) |
| Director / writer | Directed by R.D. Braunstein, from a screenplay by Daniel Gilboy[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spit_on_your_grave_3_vengeance_is_mine_2015) |
| Production | CineTel Films; producers Lisa M. Hansen and Paul Hertzberg[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spit_on_your_grave_3_vengeance_is_mine_2015) |
| Cast | Sarah Butler (Jennifer Hills), Jennifer Landon (Marla), Gabriel Hogan (Detective McDylan), Doug McKeon (Oscar), Karen Strassman (Lynne)[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spit_on_your_grave_3_vengeance_is_mine_2015) |
| Runtime and rating | About 91 to 92 minutes; unrated (NR) on home video[1](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine) |
| Critical reception | 25% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer from 5 reviews; Metacritic user score 4.7 from 19 ratings[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spit_on_your_grave_3_vengeance_is_mine_2015) • [3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine/) |
| Series position | Third of the remake-era films and fourth overall in the franchise; a direct continuation of the 2010 film[1](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
Jennifer Hills, still tormented by the sexual assault she endured in the 2010 film, lives under a changed identity in a new city and reluctantly joins a support group for rape victims as she tries to rebuild her life.[3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine/) • [4](https://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/movies/7692/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine) Her new friend Marla is murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend, and the killer escapes justice through the legal system.[5](https://sbpress.com/2015/10/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine/) Incensed by the murder and by the courts' failure, Jennifer tracks down the ex-boyfriend and then goes on to attack and kill men who have harmed other women she meets through the group.[3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine/) • [5](https://sbpress.com/2015/10/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine/) In the film's finale she becomes a suspect in a string of murders while working at a crisis hotline.[6](https://www.netflix.com/title/80074780)
Unlike the earlier entries, Jennifer is not herself raped on screen in this installment; the opening recalls the assault from the first film through flashbacks, and the accounts of sexual violence largely reach the audience through the support group.[7](https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/10418) • [1](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine) Reviewers noted that her thirst for vengeance is driven less by her own trauma than by the experiences of the other women and her frustration with a justice system that fails them.[1](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine)
### Place in the franchise
The *I Spit on Your Grave* franchise began with Meir Zarchi's controversial 1978 film (released as *Day of the Woman* in 1977 and under its current title in 1978), which Steven R. Monroe remade in 2010 with Sarah Butler; the remake spawned *I Spit on Your Grave 2* in 2013 before this film.[9](https://crossings.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/crossings/article/download/53/16/40) • [10](https://cinemahound.com/movie/i-spit-on-your-grave-2010-a4945b30) [Vengeance Is Mine](https://www.edgepedia.org/vengeance-is-mine) is the only one of the remake-era films that continues the 2010 protagonist's own story; the later *I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà vu* (2019), directed by Meir Zarchi, instead returns to the original 1978 Jennifer and her daughter.[8](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509208.2022.2045167) Because it ignores the plot of *I Spit on Your Grave 2*, viewers interested only in Jennifer's arc can skip that second film.[5](https://sbpress.com/2015/10/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine/) • [1](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine)
## Themes and style
**A shift toward the psychological.** The film contains considerably less bloodshed than the first two remake-era movies, and instead concentrates on Jennifer's further descent into her trauma and the question of whether she can ever rebuild her life.[5](https://sbpress.com/2015/10/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine/) The Stony Brook Press review argued that this entry makes the moral position less clear-cut than the first film, where Jennifer was the unambiguous victim: here the audience is left unsure whether to root for her.[5](https://sbpress.com/2015/10/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine/) The series as a whole addresses the relationship between law enforcement and rape victims, and the reality that rapists are not always brought to justice.[5](https://sbpress.com/2015/10/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine/)
A scholarly treatment of the franchise in *Quarterly Review of Film and Video* reads the sequel as evidence that the original film's revenge offers no resolution: it continues Jennifer's story by focusing on her inability to move beyond her trauma, and the revenge is followed by further appalling violence.[8](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509208.2022.2045167)
## Reception
The critical response was largely negative. The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer stood at 25% from five reviews, with more than 250 audience ratings on the Popcornmeter.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spit_on_your_grave_3_vengeance_is_mine_2015) Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times called the film "as subtle as a brick through a window and about as single-minded," while Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter found the surplus of ultraviolent fantasy sequences wearisome.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spit_on_your_grave_3_vengeance_is_mine_2015) • [3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine/) Anton Bitel, writing in *Sight & Sound*, took the opposite view, describing the film as foregrounding and interrogating its own revenge fantasy and calling it "without question the best of the series."[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spit_on_your_grave_3_vengeance_is_mine_2015) Common Sense Media judged it a slight improvement over its predecessor while still finding it disappointing and tastelessly gory in parts.[1](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine)
Some credits also conflict: while Rotten Tomatoes and the film's listing databases credit R.D. Braunstein as director, Common Sense Media and Metacritic list the director as Richard Schenkman.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spit_on_your_grave_3_vengeance_is_mine_2015) • [4](https://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/movies/7692/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine) • [3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine/) • [1](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine)
## References
1. [I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine – Parents' Guide & Movie Review, Common Sense Media](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine)
2. [I Spit on Your Grave: Vengeance Is Mine (2015), Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_spit_on_your_grave_3_vengeance_is_mine_2015)
3. [I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-spit-on-your-grave-iii-vengeance-is-mine/)
4. [I Spit on Your Grave 3: Vengeance is Mine DVD Release Date, DVDs Release Dates](https://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/movies/7692/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine)
5. [I Spit on Your Grave 3: Vengeance is Mine, The Stony Brook Press (Michael DeSantis, 2015)](https://sbpress.com/2015/10/i-spit-on-your-grave-3-vengeance-is-mine/)
6. [I Spit on Your Grave 3, Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80074780)
7. [I Spit On Your Grave 3: Vengeance is Mine, Unconsenting Media](https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/10418)
8. [Appealing, Appalling: Morality and Revenge in I Spit on Your Grave (2010), Quarterly Review of Film and Video](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509208.2022.2045167)
9. [The Axes of I Spit on Your Grave: Gender, Crossings](https://crossings.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/crossings/article/download/53/16/40)
10. [I Spit on Your Grave (2010) – Plot, Cast & Movie Details, Cinema Hound](https://cinemahound.com/movie/i-spit-on-your-grave-2010-a4945b30)
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