Day of the Woman (1978) poster
1978 · horror · revenge

Day of the Woman

Directed by Meir Zarchi1h 41m1978
ElsewhereIMDb5.734kRT51%Metacritic19
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / revenge, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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.

Our read · Day of the Woman (1978) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want raw exploitation horror confronting violence without comfort.

ends unsettlingit will wreck youbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 35attention 5/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsexual violencegraphic violencegorenudity

Skip it tonightSkip tonight—this is brutal, punishing, and not entertainment.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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