Blog Posts about Leslie Caron

A weekly look back at celebrity nudity happenings of note from the earliest days of famous females to today’s hottest starlets.

Get the in-depth facts and figures on skincredible events that happened during the week of November 1st through November 8th, including: Kate Winslet nude in Vanity Fair magazine, Mimi Rogers nude in Full Body Massage, Catherine Bach nude in Crazed, Beatrice Dalle nude in Betty Blue, and the deep-impact releases of I Spit on Your Grave and 52 Pick-Up.

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November 3, 1978
I Spit on Your Grave opens in theaters.

“Rape and revenge” stands as one of the most remarkable exploitation genres that, truly, only could have existed in the wild-and-wooly-bushed 1970s. And the Gone with the Wind of rape-and-revenge films is writer-director Meir Zarchi’s I Spit on Your Grave.

Willowy redhead Camille Keaton (granddaughter of silent-comedy great Buster Keaton) stars as a novelist whose solitary weekend retreat in the woods in interrupted by gang-rape. More than once. She then exacts payback via hanging, axe murder, and death by blood loss from a knife wound where a penis once was.

Spit played grindhouses and drive-ins deep into the 1980s and became an immediate blockbuster in the early days of home video.

This past April I, Alix Lakehurst, was named Tromette of the Month. This placed me in an elite company of previous monthly Tromette honorees, as well as the women of Troma Films themselves-the original, immortal Tromettes who ignite the silver screen with searing star power and fresh, funky eroticism as unique as Troma itself.