There is nothing like a good rape/revenge film or so it seems since we are on number 3. Jennifer/Angela (Sarah Butler) is now in group where she befriends Marla (Jennifer Landon) an over the top woman who had all the best lines. At this point it becomes a fun "Lila and Eve" as they form a little vigilante group.The film contained flashbacks from part 2 in case you forgot what a gang rape looked like. Marla was a great character, Angela wore thin without her. Gabriel Hogan played the detective and was Crispin Glover creepy in the role, perhaps by design as nearly all the men were like that except for Oscar (Doug McKeon) who was part of the group. The film started out great and would have been far better if they had kept their only good character in it longer.Guide: F-bomb, bloody violence, brief rape scenes, brief nudity in film flashback.

Thats when the fun really starts. Some amazing kill sequences lift this flick above your usual slasher film. As a man i winced quite a few times, especially during that first killing. I am hoping for another sequel as sarah butler is one bad ass equaliser. The ending seems to set things up perfectly for a follow up so fingers crossed.

I will certainly try to avoid spoilers in my review but have made sure to enter the spoiler warning just in case.I put off watching this series for a long time, I had read previous reviews both good and bad, I decided it was finally time to watch the trilogy. Knowing the first of the films was a remake I didn't have my hopes set too high (however I have not seen the original).I was impressed, I was disturbed, I felt for the character Jennifer Hills, I expected revenge and gore and the film delivered... by no means was it particularly innovative but I sparked emotion and that is important in a revenge/horror/gore flick.Part 2 was disappointing considering it was the same as the first film in a different location ... also I didn't feel as compelled to cheer for the victim character (I've already forgotten her name if that shows how well the movie was executed).I had about given up on the trilogy when I read the synopsis ... Oh what do we have hear? The return of Jennifer Hills, a character I enjoyed. Well heck, now I want o see it. I knew she couldn't possibly end up in the same situation as before so there as hope it wasn't going to simply be a rehash of the previous 2 films. I was excited, still felt some sadness for the Jennifer character, I really hoped we would see her struggle with the aftermath, maybe she would act as a counselor for other victims of abuse and rape, relive her story etc... but that doesn't make for an exciting revenge flick now does it ... I knew there had to be a vigilante angle... now I could only hope that she simply lost her mind and was to become a raving lunatic (Spoiler** Ya that's kinda what happened). Where this film missed the mark for me was from the get go every male character was played out to be the bad guy, even the good guys ... yes I get it, trust issues that makes sense and I really would have bought into it by the end had the Jennifer character met justice of her own ... The ending feels as though it can be interpreted a few ways, the entire story was just her fantasy and she will be set free into society to live out those fantasies (which is how I read it, and it certainly gives room for a 4th film)or that what we did watch actually happened and was now being recounted in therapy (because we do not know what happened with the officer in the park)... This is where I have the problem, to me she got away with it (either having served her time or having only had fantasies which she was about to pursue). They took an innocent character from the first film and made her the villain (which I fully support)but left her as the hero... I know this is all open for debate but I personally feel it would have been nice to see her go over the top, become what she once fought and paid the ultimate price.

It's quite amazing to think how far this franchise has come, since that 1974 original white trash pic, with bad sound and acting. It's a great franchise, where this third installment is a refreshing one, in the fact, it doesn't follow the path of plot to the others, with just the victim killing her rapists, one by one in a frenzy of bloody violence and madness, and the movie ends. Noted this one's much gorier than it's predecessors, and really has a lot going for it. Sarah Butler returns from the original, and it's much appreciated. This good actress is even better here, than in the first. She's changed cities and names, and still the memory of all that terror, has made her man phobic. She has murderous fantasies, like just going radge with a knife on anyone who hacks her off, in that moment, where instead she represses it, instead, so you know what this can can lead to. Hey, a lot of us have the same thing, but it's after the moment, where we visualize violent and punishing retribution, on people who have done us wrong. Now known as Angela (Butler), not Jennifer Hills, she joins a rapists support group, one, a father (Doug Mckeon, would you believe? yeah the cute boy from Golden Pond, all grown up now) who lost her daughter who suicided, where she was raped, prior by a beefcake of a sh..ty gym owner, who of course got off. Why? Cliché answer here-no physical evidence. So we need someone out there who must become female judge and jury. Forming a friendship with a young uninhibited woman victim in the group, where obviously her attack, has really changed her view on things, this is cut short, weeks later, when she is killed, by the guy who put her here, so its up to, you know who, the beautiful woman with the knife and the long fixed angry glare to take matters into own hands. And when authorities step in, that really messes with Butler's plans, while putting her in a pickle. The head of the councelling session, really got on my nerves, I really wish Butler's violent fantasy or pouncing on her was real. ISOYG3, was quite a welcoming surprise, where in it's opening, with a couple of scenes together, I was deeply worried with "Are you f..kin kidding me?", but no kidding, this is probably the best out of the franchise. It's offers real messages, and truths about rape victims, where one line, about forgiveness, cut deep. The movie has good acting by Butler, and her late rape victim friend, who's even better while, Mckeon was just fantastic as the grieving father. The other strong performance is that of the pastry faced Harley Jane Kojak (remember her?) as the soft spoken therapist. There are two twists, near the end, the first, a stupid one, I didn't buy, but does makes sense, if you think about it. The second is right near the end, on the couch, which is a beauty, and funny too. Gore hounds will lap in up, with more castrations, and squirting blood, one scene on an old guy who can't be reformed, involving vaso and a pipe + a sledgehammer. A really fun horror offering in this first one, you shouldn't pass up, especially if a fan of this rape franchise.