Suddenly it's ominous and you know something will happen at any second now. Music dictates to you, what to feel and what to expect and what to prepare yourself for. Meir Zarchi: A score is a glue, an invisible glue to put together sequences that don't work, or to convey feelings that don't work without the music. Do you think the movie would have benefited from a proper score, or do you like it the way it is? I love it the way it is, but it's a very unconventional choice to have no score at all. I read that you wanted to add in a score, but I think it adds a layer of realism to the movie. That was my choice for the original and, obviously, when the remake was written, it was made a little differently and, from the first frame, they're a little more cynical and evil.Īnother striking thing about the original is the lack of a film score. My choice was to show them as simple human beings, not evil from the outset. Was that a choice you made, so when the rape happens that it seems like more of a shock? In the remake they seem mean-spirited right from the get-go. One of the differences I noticed, from the remake to the original, is the four guys in your original, at first they seem more good-natured guys. Eventually, it narrowed down to Camille and the four guys. I called her in, we auditioned her for a few weeks and played her against selected men. I remember auditioning a few thousand men and maybe 600 women and as soon as I saw Camille's still, her black-and-white still, I felt there was something there. We got thousands and thousands of stills and resumes, from all over the country. It said this would be a low-budget movie to be shot this summer, looking for characters and we described the characters and their approximate age, four men and one woman. Meir Zarchi: I put ads in two industry magazines, weekly magazines in New York, in the spring of 1976. Maybe they resemble him.Ĭan you talk a bit about assembling the cast for this? There is no connection or no relation whatsoever. Some compared this character to Gilligan's Island. He may look like him and act like him or maybe remind you of him, but there was no relation whatsoever. When I watched the original again, I could be way off base here, but it almost seemed that Matthew was a Woody Allen knock-off character. I Spit on Your Grave was just released in brand new editions on Blu-ray and DVD on February 8 and I recently had the privilege of speaking with director Meir Zarchi on the phone about his experiences on this project. A few years later, it was re-released under the new title I Spit on Your Grave, and while it still didn't score any points with critics, it became a controversial movie that grew into a cult classic, which it still is to this day. In 1978, writer-director Meir Zarchi released a movie entitled Day of the Woman, which was largely dismissed by critics.
I Spit On Your Grave director Meir Zarchi discusses his cult classic, the title change, his sequel idea and more
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