Naked Vengeance was a great surprise for me. I recently heard about it and then a couple days later I was able to watch it. So obviously I jumped at the chance to see an under-rated rape/revenge flick. And I am really glad I did. This is easily one of my favorites of the rape/revenge genre.

The version I watched is most likely the R-rated version. That's a shame since there is a Unrated Version out there. I would have loved to seen the film in a more graphic nature, but hell, this movie is good enough. I know some people will wait on the Unrated, and I'm telling you don't. It's entirely worth watching if you have the chance to see the R version.

Anne's life seems too good to be true. She has a successful marriage, a husband with a great job, which has given her the ability to retire at a young age. Anne and Hubby decide to head out to celebrate their 5th Anniversary and all goes well until they witness a woman getting beat. Hubby being a good man runs to stop the Mugger but is bested and unfortunately murdered, all in front of poor Anne. Anne thinks it's best to get away from the city and get back to her roots in Silver Lake and visit her parents. Unfortunately for her Silver Lake is littered with drunk pervs. While in Silver Lake Anne's foundation is rocked to the core and what better to than to take revenge. It's time for Naked Vengeance!

Like I said above this movie was a great surprise. It was entertaining all the way through. What really moved it along for me was the supporting cast of the drunk, perverted, townspeople. Burke, Fletch and Sparky were all cast perfectly. The movie was directed well, the actors were all good, the violence was there, it had me laughing, and it had a great rock ballad song that played a good amount. It was actually sung by our lead who plays Anne, Deborah Tranelli. So all in all, Naked Vengeance was a really good flick that entertains on many levels. If you happen to come by it, definitely give it a shot. 8.5 outta 10

Carla Harris and her husband are out for an anniversary dinner. He is killed while trying to help a woman being attacked. The killer gets away. Carla goes back to her home town. Almost every man is a creep and the sheriff dismisses her. She gets gang-raped by those men and her parents are murdered. Justice demands revenge.

My biggest issue is that no one can assume this is an open and shut case. The only people who suggest it are corrupt, complicit, or moronic. How do they not test Carla with the rape? Even without DNA (which started after this movie),people used to test for blood type and such. I doubt anybody used a condom. There is an assumption right away that there are no other people involved. It's a very odd assumption to make without even dusting for prints. On the other hand, I am willing to give the drunken rapists the ability to stage a bad crime scene. After all, they are drunk and stupid. A better way is for her to escape during the confusion of the shootings. The police wouldn't know about her rape or that she's a witness. She could start killing her rapists and be accused of killing everybody at the house. It would solve a lot of story issues. This is essentially a revenge B-movie like Death Wish or I Spit on your Grave. It's relatively fine for a B-movie. The acting and the production is fair for this level. I love that her rapists lead a mob to hunt her down. I would just make that one change.

In the vein of those aggressively seedy, but stock-like revenge thrillers; "Naked Vengeance" is a considerably cut-rate, but amusingly rowdy and efficiently catered b-grade imitation of "I Spit on Your Grave". Carla's life is shattered when she witnesses her husband murdered, so she retreats back to the town she grew up in and stays with her parents at their lakeside cottage. But the nightmare continues for her when some drunken locals break into her home. There they would terrorise her, until her parents walked in on them to only be killed. Abused and left for dead, the law just won't cut it. Revenge… cold-hearted revenge is what she seeks. Her own justice with pain driving it. The men that caused the act, leaving this women's descent into madness (or that's what we are to believe); simply are portrayed as perverts, drooling low-lives and thugs. Even the clueless, narrow minded local Sheriff isn't painted that fancily.

While unimaginatively clichéd, it packs fury (some intensity makes its way into some set-pieces) and instinctively lays out many horrid encounters as she toys around with her initial victims knocking them off one at a time. Jack-cheap exploitation film-maker Cirio H. Santiago provides serviceable direction, as it doesn't waste much time and never does it outstay its welcome. The writing / dialogues might seem rough, but it's simple and formidably to-the-point. Deborah Tranelli (of "Dallas" fame) provides a grippingly strong performance as the traumatised Carla.