What's Your Best Revenge Contemplation Films?
 

Which (horror or not-horror) films, that are about the subject of revenge, did you personally think (disregarding fame, ratings and critics), were the best? Ones that made a difference to you.

Of course, revenge is a common horror theme; I wouldn't doubt over half have aspects of revenge in them. But I'm talking about films that are about revenge. Those would be films like Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), The Girl Most Likely To (1973 staring Stockard Channing) and Martyrs (and maybe you'd debate any of those films contemplate revenge).

Some films use revenge as reason for the horror killing, where it's more of setting, like a war, but it doesn't deal with the subject of revenge; which would be a film like "Friday the 13th". Akin to that, there's films were someone(s) is mistreated, and then they just kill at the end, such as "Carrie" 1976, where revenge appears, but the concept of revenge isn't contemplated. Along those lines, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is like "Friday the 13th" where revenge simply starts the horror killing; and although the film does deal with guilt and fear of retribution, perhaps not the contemplation of revenge.

So, use your own judgment, but try to isolate films that deal with the concept of revenge, rather than merely a setting for horror killing. Are there any?

Dead Man's Shoes.

I know it's recent but I have to go with Kill Bill 1 & 2. It's probably because those films take so much from other revenge flicks that I love but without thinking Kill Bill is what immediately comes to mind. I'm sure I would have a different answer if I sat and thought about it, went through my collection, and searched online through my wishlist of DVDs/Blu-Rays I don't own but I'm not gonna'.

Dead Man's Shoes was definitely a great film.

Kill Bill was entertaining but the plagiarism in it is just too much for me. I'd rather watch Lady Snowblood or Sex & Fury.

The Horseman
Savage Streets
The Exterminator
Point Blank
Get Carter (1971)
Mad Max
God's Lonely Man

anything with Charles Bronson.

Some good stuff, I hear you with Kill Bill but I respect somebody who can take a lot of great ideas from some disjointed efforts and combine them into a saga like that. Were there issues? Oh yeah, but I dug it. Talking about Kill Bill always reminds me that I still need to get a copy of Thriller though...

I guess the classic erxamples would be I Spit On Your Grave and MS. 45.

Chan-wook Park's The Vengeance Trilogy! Gritty, challenging & disturbing! Took this genre into whole new level of awesomeness. There's another Korean revenge thriller: No Mercy (2010)...somewhat like a love letter to Chan-Wook Park's V-Trilogy. Strongly recommended.

Argh,you beat me to it Roshig.I was just going to post about this very same trilogy.Oldboy being the finest of the finest.

How about: Last House on the Left.

Tell me a little about Dead Man's Shoes. I haven't seen it. Do the characters really explore the concept of revenge? Do they struggle with if it's justice, or revenge? If they should do it, if they shouldn't? If they do it, does it display soul searching about it? Do they get the wrong person, or hurt innocent in the process? Do they get the right person and regret it? Does it change them?

The Kill Bills are certainly taking place in the setting of revenge. But I'm not so sure it contemplate's revenge. Do you think it does? If so, how so?