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Day of the Woman

After it was all over... she waited... then she struck back in a way only a WOMAN can!

6.0(759)19781h 41m6

A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge.

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Status
Released
Budget
$80K
Box office
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Language
English
Part of I Spit on Your Grave (Original) Collection · 2 films
  • rape
  • castration
  • revenge
  • gang rape
  • writer
  • cruelty
  • brutality
  • hanging
  • misogyny
  • mentally handicapped man
  • rape and revenge
  • video nasty

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Meir Zarchi

Produced in

United States of America

Gallery

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNC-1722 Nov 1978
    • TheatricalNC-17re-release16 Jul 1980
    • TheatricalNC-17Re-release16 Mar 1983
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical182 Nov 1978
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalR 18+1 Dec 1982
  • BrazilBR

    • Physical1824 Feb 2003
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Film Festival23 May 1978
    • Physical16DVD30 Jun 2005
  • GermanyDE

    • Digital / OTT181 Aug 2021
    • TheatricalRe-release30 Oct 2025
  • ItalyIT

    • PhysicalVM187 Mar 2006
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical30 Jun 1979
    • TheatricalR18+16 Jun 2012
  • PhilippinesPH

    • Theatrical22 Nov 1978
  • PortugalPT

    • TheatricalM/1826 Mar 1981
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical18"S"18 Mar 1980

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Day of the Woman was released on 2 November 1978.

Audience reviews

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    jamitchell1509

    5/29/2017

    2/10

    The thing about this film that I find most difficult to fathom, other than why it was made in the first place, is why it's seen as such an important work. At the end of the film, I didn't have the slightest notion that I had seen anything that informed me or had done me any good whatsoever. I'm all for films that challenge, that rattle cages, as long as they have a point to make. I can sit through the most abhorrent,…

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    JPV852

    11/21/2021

    7/10

    A movie I really didn't care much for upon my first viewing (circa 2011) but kind of appreciate more today. Unnerving to say the least with a brutal sexual assault followed by the revenge portion for the third act that's not entirely satisfying but still well done as a whole. One thing I noticed today that I didn't 10 years ago was the lack of a score or soundtrack which gives the movie a haunting tone. Camille Keato…

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