Öyle Bir Kadin Ki (1979) User Reviews

I spit on your giblets.

[morrison-dylan-fan · 6/10 · 16 October 2012]

Searching round online for "alt cuts" of movies,I was startled to find that the still controversial Rape-Revenge Horror I Spit on Your Grave had been remade in Turkey.Reading up what little info I could find out about the movie,I was surprised to find out,that with the at the time,ultra-conservative military government of Turkey burning the negatives of any film that featured nudity,this film had somehow been saved from the burning,and had thankfully been stopped from being permanently destroyed.

The plot:

Heading on their way to commit a robbery,a gang of thieves/real estate agents car suddenly runs out of fuel.Searching for a safe place to spend the night,the gang quickly find a farmhouse run by a father and his daughter (Zerrin) who "welcome any guest" to stay at their house.Getting set to leave the farmhouse the next day,the robbers decide to give the kind father and his daughter a generous present,by killing the father and viscously raping his daughter.Initially thinking about committing suicide,the daughter eventually decides that she will avenge what the gang did to her and her dad,by murdering each of them one by one.

View on the film:

Keeping the movie at a brisk 59 minute running time,screenwriter Recep Filiz has the plot move at a very fast pace,by having the entire set up of the film take place in the first 10 minutes.Although the screenplay does not give the character's that much detail,Filiz does give Zerrin's (played by the cute Zerrin Dogan) a terrific episodic feel as her revenge attacks increase in viciousness.Unexpectedly showing signs of being ahead of his time,by deciding to remake a film that was hardly known about at the time,director Naki Yurter, (who along with getting arrested in 1980 for making "erotic" movies,is also credited as the Turkish director who still holds the record for directing the most Turkish movies in one year,but sadly ended up penniless,and dying in 1992 age 44) shows a real voyeuristic relish for his leading actress,by having the camera shoot "upwards" towards Dogan.Along with the voyeuristic side,Yurter shows plenty of skill in staging enjoyably sharp revenge attacks,which make this a Rape-Revenge movie that defiantly deserves to fight another day.

Turkish Version of I Spit?

[Michael_Elliott · 26 February 2011]

Intikam Kadini (1979)

** (out of 4)

This "film" comes from Turkey and was actually the first "adult" movie to be released there even though there aren't any hardcore scenes here. The sexploitation genre from Turkey has pretty much gone unknown because the government destroyed the majority of the films but this Turkish version of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE was saved for those interested. Four real estate agents have their car break down so they ask an old father and his daughter (Zerrin Dogan) if they can spend the night. In the morning the men rape the woman and kill her father. The daughter fights off a suicide thought to seek revenge on the men. At just over an hour there's really no "story" being told here as the rape takes place by the two-minute mark and the revenge starts about ten-minutes later. What's interesting about this film is that I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE didn't really get that title until 1981 when it was re-released. The first three years of that films life had DAY OF THE WOMAN as the title so I'm rather curious why this film remade it and especially before it gained notoriety. Those familiar with these Turkish rips know that dialogue and scenes are pretty much shot scene for scene but that never happens here so I'm really not sure how much an of actual "remake" this is. It's certainly not as shockingly bad as some of the other Turkish rips of such movies as STAR WARS, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and THE EXORCIST. For the most part this thing is mildly entertaining if you like pure crap cinema. The performances are all bad, the screenplay a joke and for some reason there's a salsa music score that really feels out of place. There are several sex scenes with big-breasted women who could easily be in a Russ Meyer movie but this adds very little to the actual film. The death scenes are all pretty silly including one where she runs over a man who doesn't even attempt to get out of the way of the car. Another funny sequence has the woman thinking about jumping off a cliff so the director gives us three zoom shots of the woman looking to the bottom of the cliff. The director then gives us three zoom shots from the ground to the woman and then back to the woman to the ground three times. After the second go around you'll certainly be laughing.

At least it's better than the real I Spit On Your Grave

[Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki · 24 August 2015]

In this softcore, loose remake of the putrid I Spit On Your Grave, a girl tracks down those who assaulted her, and killed her father.

Degenerated film stock ruins on-location photography in Turkey, with washed out colours, yellow/ orange sky, and it looks as though the left third of the screen wasn't properly exposed, as it repeatedly blows out completely white, before seemingly being hacked with a machete, then reassembled with Scotch tape. Screen also turns completely blue for a few frames at a time, and I'm not sure if that is the film itself, or just a glitch in my tape of it. I'm also not sure why people in the background, staring at the camera, and the guy holding the boom mic made it into the final cut, or the blood splattering on the camera after Dogan cuts the guy's throat on the boat.

Speaking of Zerrin Dogan, she is gorgeous, and she alone makes the film worth watching, even in its degenerated state. (Seriously, I've seen silent films from the turn of the century which are in better shape than this film)

The annoying soundtrack veers wildly from prerecorded disco, to what sounds like Lurch (from The Addams Family) playing the harpsichord.

Good for unintended laughs, and for gorgeous Zerron Dogan. I'm going to search for more of her films.

(By the way, I cannot post my review of the real I Spit On Your Grave, as it consists of just the single word "sucks")