Over all I found Revenge to have not lived up to its hype. I remember hearing about from corners of my film community and it even played at a local micro-theater but I never got the chance to see it until watching it in Shudder. Despite being directed by a woman, Coralie Fargeat, the staging, costuming, and framing of Matilda Lutz struck me as overly objectifying. I never fully engaged empathically with Jen, her terrible plight, or her struggle and I think that comes down to two major factors. The first is the leering nature of the 
photography it seemed to constantly present Jen only something of a sexual desire keeping me at a distance from her as a character. The second major reason for my emotional disconnection is my shattering of disbelief when presented with unreal and impossible physical damage that characters not only survive and but remain fighting functional. It would appear that the scriptwriter has never been exposed to the concept of internal bleeding or exactly why you can’t run with your major abdominal muscles torn or ruptured.
My viewing coming quickly after another recent film on Shudder about a young woman who has to survive after a terrible assault I could not help but compare this with The Corpse of Anna Fritz. Anna Fritz while produced on a much smaller budget and with far fewer sequences of action, was a film where I never lost a tense and fearful emotional connection with the character of Anna. Watching Revenge I was mostly bored but during Anna Fritz I was engaged and concerned, desperately hoping for Ann to escape this unjust and unfair situation. There is far more nudity in Anna Fritz and yet it is presented in a manner that did not feel leering or objectifying but rather exposed and terrifying.
I cannot recommend Revenge and if you have Shudder go with Anna Fritz instead.
