I Spit on Your Grave released-- November 3, 1978

This day in 1978 saw the release of the most notorious grindhouse flick of all time: I Spit on Your Grave, aka Day of the Woman.

Inspired by the director’s experience helping a rape victim in New York, I Spit on Your Grave stars silent film star Buster Keaton’s grand-niece Camille Keaton as a writer who is secluding herself in a cabin in the woods when a four men brutally attack her and tear up her manuscript.

After she recovers, the victim takes her revenge by hunting down and killing her attackers, hanging one, castrating one in a hot tub, killing another with an axe, and disemboweling the last with the propeller of a motorboat.

Controversy greeted the film on its release and it drew a good deal of criticism, but Camille Keaton did go on to win a Best Actress award for her role in this movie at the 1978 Catalonian International Film Festival

Besides the graphic violence that shocked critics like Roger Ebert and got the film banned outright in many countries, I Spit on Your Grave also features several long scenes of full-frontal nudity on Camille’s part.

Recently, CineTel Films has announced a planned remake of the film with original director Meir Zarchi signed on as executive producer.

No word on who will play the lead, but hopefully she will be an actress willing to recreate the nudity that have had guys busting their Keatons to Camille for the last thirty years!