‘After watching Revenge, I knew there was no going back.’

A fan of horror since she was a teenager, Alice* was having a film night with her housemates when she found her life changed by Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature, Revenge.

The 2017 movie follows Jen (Matilda Lutz), who, while enjoying a romantic getaway with her boyfriend Richard (Kevin Janssens), is drugged, raped, and brutalised by him and two of his friends. After surviving the ordeal, she embarks on a mission of bloody revenge against her assailants.

While the narrative and the gore are entirely fictional, Jen’s plight struck a chord with Alice.

‘From the moment she was attacked, I related to Jen. During my time at university, a man I loved sexually assaulted me when I was drunk and I lost consciousness,’ she said.

‘I kept it

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