History Film / Revenge2017

''Revenge'' is a 2017 French rape and revenge action horror film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, and starring Creator/MatildaLutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe and Guillaume Bouchède.

!!''Revenge'' contains examples of:

* GuileHeroine: For someone who initially comes across as a [[DumbBlonde shallow blond cutie]], Jen shows remarkable resourcefulness and quick thinking in an extremely traumatic situation she is unlikely to have any experience with.

Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly––and viciously––intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, Jen survives and reemerges with a relentless, wrathful intent: revenge!

* AllMenArePerverts: Of the three male characters in the film, one is cheating on his wife with a beautfiful young woman, the second rapes her first chance he gets, and the third lets it happen and then gleefully helps cover it up. The latter two also spend nearly their entire screentime before the rape doing nothing but ogle the female lead.
* AntiHero: Deconstructed, unlike a majority of rape-revenge movies, where the protagonist is portrayed as innocent and virginal for sympathy, Jen is openly promiscuous, knowingly has an affair with a married man, and she desires to get noticed in Hollywood. Coralie Fargeat emphasises that sexual assault is still the worst thing anyone can go through, and promiscuity is not a valid excuse in any way for raping someone.

* DeadAnimalWarning: Not so much a warning as a perverse practical joke, but Richard wakes up the sleeping Stan by flinging a dead cat on to the windscreen of his car. Stan understandably screams as he awakens to a thump and blood splattered across his windscreen.

* DramaticDrop: Jen is walking slowly through the lounge room with a cold glass in her hand when she turns and sees the two threatening looking hunters leering at her through the glass wall. She gasps and drops the glass which shatters on the floor.

* EarAche: One of the men gets behind the heroine and shoots her in the head with a high-powered rifle. [[FakeKillScare However we then see]] the shot [[OnlyAFleshWound took off an earlobe instead of killing her.]]

* GrossUpCloseUp: Dimi eats some sort of gooey marshmallow treat in disgusting close-up slo-mo as Stan prepares to rape Jen, cementing what a gross human being he is in general.
* GuileHero: For someone who initially comes across as a [[DumbBlonde shallow blond cutie]], Jen shows remarkable resourcefulness and quick thinking in an extremely traumatic situation she is unlikely to have any experience with.

* KickTheDog: As if raping and attempting to murder a young woman wasn't despicable enough already, Stan can't resist aiming for a passing spider while he's taking a leak in the desert, keeping the stream on it until the helpless animal is completely buried under suffocating mud.

** The expression on the faces of Richard, Stan and Dimi says it all when they return to the canyon to dispose of Jen's body and look over the edge of the cliff and discover that the body is no longer there.

* ThePhoenix: The heroine has been LeftForDead by the villains, and ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on a tree, but escapes but setting fire to the tree so that it eventually breaks under her weight. Later she heals her injuries by cutting open and flattening an aluminum beer can, [[HealItWithFire holding it over the fire and then pressing it against her wound]]. In doing so she inadvertently brands the beer can's logo on her flesh, which happens to be a phoenix.

* PragmaticVillainy: After seeing that Jen's body is no longer where they left it and concluding she's still alive, Stan panics and suggests that they should get Jen medical attention and contact their lawyers to think of a cover up. Richard shoots him down, stating that there are three of them, who are armed, [[UnderestimatingBadassery while Jen is by herself and heavily wounded.]]

* TheVoice: Richard's wife only appears as a voice on the phone: calling her husband while he is away with [[TheMistress his mistress]].

* PragmaticVillainy: After seeing that Jen's body is no longer where they left it and concluding she's still alive, Stan panics and suggests that they should get Jen medical attention, try to convince her they didn't intend to kill her, and contact their lawyers to cover everything up. Richard shoots him down, stating that there are three of them, who are armed, [[UnderestimatingBadassery while Jen is by herself and heavily wounded.]]

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''Revenge'' is a 2017 French rape and revenge action horror film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, and starring Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe and Guillaume Bouchède.

Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly––and viciously––intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, Jen survives and reemerges with a relentless, wrathful intent: revenge!

* AbsoluteCleavage: The skimpy dress that Jen wears to Richard's party with his buddies has a neckline that plunges almost to her navel.

* FullFrontalAssault: When Richard hears a noise, he step out of the shower and picks up his shotgun to go hunting for Jen. He never gets a chance to get dressed, and goes through the final game of cat-and-mouse and shootout completely naked.

* OneWordTitle

* PragmaticVillainy: After seeing Jen's body gone and concluding she's still alive, Stan panics and suggests that they should get Jen medical attention and contact their lawyers to cover everything up. Richard shoots him down, stating that there are three of them, who are armed, [[UnderestimatingBadassery while Jen is by herself and heavily wounded.]]

* EyeScream: When Dimi is attempting to [[spoiler:drown Jen in the lake, Jen manages to snatch his hunting knife from its sheath without him noticing. She then rakes the blade over both his eyes, then jams it up to the hilt in one of his eye sockets.]]

* FromDressToDressing: After being shot in the shoulder by Jen, Stan uses his sock as a tourniquet to staunch the bleeding.

* TheOner: There is a single long tracking shot that starts when Richard hears a noise and steps out of the shower and picks up his shotgun. The shot then follows him as he prowls the house and the pool area in search of Jen. The long shot is useful as it establishes the exact layout of the corridors where Richard and Jen will later be playing cat-and-mouse.