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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.

The funky film noir 52 Pick-Up boasts two impeccably classy leads (Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret), an A-list director of some of cinema’s greatest thrillers (John Frankenheimer), and it was adapted from the work of one of the most respected modern crime novelists (Elmore Leonard).

Fortunately, 52 Pick-Up transcends its high-brow pedigree to rule as one of Hollywood’s all-time sleaziest big budget undertakings. For that, we love it, and it was on this date in 1986 that 52 Pick-Up first brought its dirty dealings to the big screen.

52 Pick-Up is loaded with real-life porn stars (including Amber Lynn, who gets naked) and contains top-tier toplessness from young Kelly Preston who’s tied up and tortured, and Prince protégé Vanity as a peep show worker posing for Polaroids.

Click the poster for some bracingly bare eyefuls.