Deja Vu is Epic Trash

41 years after the original "I Spit on Your Grave", Camille Keaton returns as Jennifer Hills to pass the torch over to her character's daughter Christy, so she too can be raped and get revenge, by the descendants of the original film's antagonists.

In 2010, we were given a brutal, gritty remake of the original that featured some of the gnarliest kills I've seen in any movie. It was a fucking great remake. One of the best. It went on to spawn two decent sequels, and then it was announced that we would be getting a "true" sequel to the original, by the same director. Interesting, right? Well, not quite...

Deja Vu is epic in the sense of it being long. Very long. This movie is 2 and a half hours, with some very drawn out scenes of exposition that we definitely don't need, but they're there anyway. The movie could have been an hour shorter and say all the same things.

Our cast here is filled with bad actors who aren't intimidating in the least. In fact, they're flat out stupid. Dumb as fuck, if you will. You know it's bad when one of the better actors is the retarded old man who kind of looks like Michael Berryman. Then, we have that raggedy long-haired fucker who overacts the living hell out of any scene he's in. Too expressive, and too scrawny to pose any real threat. Even Camille Keaton doesn't seem like she knows how to act anymore. The new girl does okay, but the execution leaves a LOT to be desired.

One thing that this film does with its excessive runtime is explain things. Over and over again. They drill it into your head and show a lot of flashbacks to a better film, as if the audience is too dumb to put the pieces together themselves, when the only people who are watching this turkey are fans of the original, and they already get it.

This film lacks the brutality of any of the films that came before it, and the rape scene is much shorter and very tame. The revenge is still quite necessary though, because the characters are so pathetic. As necessary as this revenge is, it's highly unsatisfying.

The movie tries to have a message about the futility of revenge, but it comes off as a bit preachy. There are forced religious overtones, and not enough grueling horror for them to mean anything. Not the worst movie ever, but far from anything you'd expect from the creative team of the original video nasty.

2010 remake > 1978 original > 2013 part 2 > 2015 part 3 > I Spit Chew on Your Grave > Deja Vu