Revenge
Does exactly what it says in the title. Woman joins her lover to a remote luxury house in the desert where he's joined by two disgusting friends for a hunting trip. Shes raped by one of the friends but her lover, who is married, wants to keep the whole thing quiet decides to kill her instead. She has her bloody bloody revenge on the men, in the most spectacular way. Its pretty damn good even though it does fall under the rape-revenge genre which I really hate that that's a 'thing'. What's different about this film, its written and directed by Coralie Fargeat who brings her own spin on the sub-genre.
Dead Man's Shoes
For a long while I owned this film, watching it twice then wandering why the hell I owned it. Its a brilliant but brutal film, but I don't think I could casually sit down and watch this again, unless it was for piece I was writing. One of Shane Meadows' films before the 'This is England' phase/TV craze and with his lucky charm the powerhouse Paddy Considine and first feature debut of Toby Kebbell. Considine returns home from a lengthy time in the army to take revenge on a gang of drug dealers who brutally bullied his mentally-impaired brother. It is grim, to put it lightly.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Of course, I'm going for the Swedish original, even I liked the American remake, the original is spuerb. Revenge is a theme that covers the entire trilogy, with Lisbeth getting revenge on his abusive father (in a flashback), her new guardian who rapes her, the serial killer at the end, shes a revenge queen.
