History YMMV / ISpitOnYourGrave

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jennifer's likability drops when she murders the sympathetic Matthew in cold blood. Keep in mind he saved her life, something she knows. The remake takes this further, where he is extremely reluctant to join in on the rape, only does so when they tell him they will kill Jennifer if he doesn't, and upon seeing Jennifer, starts sobbing and talking about how sorry he is, only for her to kill him anyway, saying "It's just NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jennifer's likability drops when she murders the sympathetic Matthew in cold blood. Keep in mind he saved her life, something she knows. The remake takes this further, where he is extremely reluctant to join in on the rape, only does so when they tell him they will kill Jennifer if he doesn't, and upon seeing Jennifer, starts sobbing and talking about how sorry he is, only for her to kill him anyway, saying "It's just NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"
** At the same time?? Both times he didn’t participate in it but he didn’t stop it either.

** In the remake, he's pretty much literally told they will kill her if he doesn't violate her. Also, as a disabled man in his hillbilly town, he pretty much has nothing and no one if he turned on his friends.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jennifer's likability drops when she murders the sympathetic Matthew in cold blood. Keep in mind he saved her life, something she knows. The remake takes this further, where he is extremely reluctant to join in on the rape, only does so when they tell him they will kill Jennifer if he doesn't, and upon seeing Jennifer, starts sobbing and talking about how sorry he is, only for her to kill him anyway, saying "I know, IT'S JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"

*** [[spoiler: Despite what happens later, Detective [=McDylan=] is quickly established as a kind and caring SVU Detective that genuinely wants to help people. Unlike Bolton's antagonistic approach (meant to get people upset and blurt things out), he is able to get Jennifer Hills of all people (who was utterly let down by law enforcment in the first film) to sit down and have coffee with him.]][[spoiler: Even after she becomes a suspect, he's still being kind and patient with her. His harshest moment with her is sternly warning not to skip bail.]][[spoiler: Even though she ends up in prison for two years and he ends up having to shoot her, he saves her from life in prison or death row.]]

** The [[spoiler:step father's]] death in the third film. [[spoiler: Raped anally by a pipe and then having it driven in with a sledgehammer.]] Ouch.

*** How Jennifer is doing when we catch up with her. [[spoiler: Short answer: Not good. She's living alone, working a "shitty job" and still has nightmares and flashbacks from her rape years earlier.]]

* AmericansHateTingle: Bulgarian viewers have a love-hate relationship with the movie's portrayal of Bulgaria as a crime-ridden pit, considering their own [[MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting self-irony]] about such matters.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Matthew. Some people find him sympathetic, since he is mentally retarded and initially refused to violate Jennifer. Others think that his sympathetic qualities make his actions more disturbing. After all, he did nothing to assist her, didn't go for help, made no real attempt to stop his friends, and did give in to peer pressure. By the time he took his turn, it was unlikely Jennifer was feeling significantly less raped.
** In the remake, he's pretty much literally told they will kill her if he doesn't violate her. Also, as a retard in his hillbilly town, he pretty much has nothing and no one if he turned on his friends.

* HeartwarmingMoments: There are some moments in the films

* HilariousInHindsight: Five years later, [[Film/SuddenImpact another woman named Jennifer]] would also get revenge on a brutal gang od deviants who raped her, this time with the help of Film/DirtyHarry.

* HilariousInHindsight: Five years later, [[Film/SuddenImpact another woman named Jennifer]] would also get revenge on a gang of rapists, this time with the help of Film/DirtyHarry.

* {{Narm}}: Johnny's screaming from the bathroom in the original: "It won't stop bleeding! IT WON'T STOP ''BLEEEEEDIIIIINNNGGG''!!!"

* Jennifer:
** [[spoiler: By the end of the third film, it's pretty clear that she has become mentally unstable. But that last night she snuck out and got caught. She knew she was being watched by the police, yet she was wearing a clearly visible red dress and tried to kill at least two more people, one of them in front of a Detective no less. Did she really go insane that night or was it a deliberate ploy to allow her to plead insanity and dodge any serious punishment? Or was it attempted suicide by cop?]]
** [[spoiler: In fact, given that in the third film we see that she suffers from hallucinations, did she actually kill anyone at all? There should have been other witnesses and surveillance video at the bar where Marla's ex-boyfriend was and at the storefront where she picked up the step-father. The only two confirmed times she actually tries to kill someone, she was easily overpowered and the police were there. So, was she fantasizing about killing the men in the films and someone else (Matthew, Oscar) did it? If so, then Oscar killing himself after learning about Jennifer wasn't to protect her, but a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment that leads him to confess and kill himself to stop her from going down the same road.]]
* Matthew: [[spoiler: did his own guilt lead to him to snap and kill his "friends"? Bolton mentions that the Louisiana authorities ruled their deaths a murder-suicide, but there should have been a lot of evidence to the contrary. Also, Jennifer kidnapped Chastity. At the very least, there should have been a warrant out for her arrest. All that's ever said is that Jennifer was someone they wanted to talk to, not arrest or detain. It may be that during the investigation the authorities uncovered evidence of the truth and wanted to question Jennifer about it but couldn't find her.]]

** Jennifer:

** Which naturally leads to Matthew: [[spoiler: did his own guilt lead to him to snap and kill his "friends"? Bolton mentions that the Louisiana authorities ruled their deaths a murder-suicide, but there should have been a lot of evidence to the contrary. Also, Jennifer kidnapped Chastity. At the very least, there should have been a warrant out for her arrest. All that's ever said is that Jennifer was someone they wanted to talk to, not arrest or detain. It may be that during the investigation the authorities uncovered evidence of the truth and wanted to question Jennifer about it but couldn't find her.]]

* DesignatedHero / BlackAndBlackMorality
** Between the remake's much more sympathetic portrayal of Matthew and inadvertantly softening Jennifer's trauma by avoiding showing her at her worst, its hard to see Jennifer's actions as being an even mildly good person.
** It's averted in the second film. Katie's antagonists are [[spoiler: human traffickers who lure women in with free modelling photo shoots (which is TruthInTelevision). We see her entire ordeal throughout the first half of the film. Plus we do see Katie's escape and physical recovery.]] Somewhat played straight in that one of the antagonists [[spoiler: was a sex slave herself and the other is a PsychopathicManChild who was attracted to Katie.]] It doesn't excuse the hell they put her through. Also, unlike Jennifer, [[spoiler: Katie had two people in her corner that tried to help her (and succeeded somewhat). This display of humanity probably makes her more of a shade of gray than Jennifer.]]
** It's little better in the third film however. When we catch up with Jennifer, she is no longer an author, has changed her name and moved to a new city. She is plagued by nightmares, flashbacks and later on hallucinations. [[spoiler: After becoming friends with a fellow survivor who is later murdered, things get even worse.]] Some of her victims she goes after range from being an AssholeVictim to innocent. [[spoiler: It gets so bad that by the end of the film, she has gotten beaten up, sexually assaulted, lost another friend (who killed himself while taking the blame for the murders she committed), slipped into insanity, got shot while trying to kill yet another AssholeVictim, and served two years in prison with no signs that she even wants to get better. Basically, it was RealityEnsues after getting revenge in the remake.]]

** Which naturally leads to Matthew: [[spoiler: did his own guilt lead to him to kill his "friends"? Bolt mentions that the Louisiana authorities ruled their deaths a murder-suicide, but there should have been a lot of evidence to the contrary. Also, Jennifer kidnapped Chastity. At the very least, there should have been a warrant out for her arrest. All that's ever said is that Jennifer was someone they wanted to talk to, not arrest or detain. It may be that during the investigation the authorities uncovered evidence of the truth and wanted to question Jennifer about it but couldn't find her.]]

** Which naturally leads to Matthew: [[spoiler: did his own guilt lead to him to kill his "friends" and Jennifer just happened to witness it but did nothing? Or were the police who investigated the deaths simply incompetent?]]

** [[spoiler: In fact, given that in the third film we see that she suffers from hallucinations, did she actually kill anyone at all? There should have been other witnesses and surveillance video at the bar where Marla's ex-boyfriend was and at the storefront where she picked up the step-father. The only two confirmed times she actually tries to kill someone, the police are there. So, was she fantasizing about killing the men in the films and someone else (Matthew, Oscar) did it? If so, then Oscar killing himself after learning about Jennifer wasn't to protect her, but a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment that leads him to confess and kill himself to stop her from going down the same road.]]

** Jennifer: [[spoiler: By the end of the third film, it's pretty clear that she has become mentally unstable. But that last night she snuck out and got caught. She knew she was being watched by the police, yet she was wearing a clearly visible red dress and tried to kill at least two more people, one of them in front of a Detective no less. Did she really go insane that night or was it a deliberate ploy to allow her to plead insanity and dodge any serious punishment? Or was it attempted suicide by cop?]]