Watch This Movie if Your Ex Totally Screwed You Over + and You Need to Feel a Rage Catharsis

Betrayal is a powerful human emotion. Because it hurts so very much, we usually feel overwhelmed with anger as a way to redirect our thoughts away from noticing how vulnerable betrayal makes us. If you’ve had a relationship end badly, you’ve probably needed a release from pent-up rage. Sometimes the best way to move on is to take a few hours to really feel your feelings through the medium of a blood-soaked revenge movie. The perfect one is currently streaming free on Tubi.

Revenge (2017) is a violent Mad Max inspired action horror movie about a young woman (Matilda Lutz) who is chased across a desert landscape by her boyfriend and his two dirtbag friends after a sexual assault severs civility among the group. The three men are armed hunters and the young woman is gravely injured from the start, but surrealist movie magic gives her the opportunity to turn the tables and hunt each of them down. She saves the bloodiest confrontation for her ex in an epic, gory finale.

Revenge was written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, who earned three Academy Award nominations last year for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay for her second feature film, The Substance (2024). Revenge is to the rape/revenge subgenre what The Substance is to body horror. They are both feminist films that feel like dark fairy tales. They also both contain finales which are very brutal and very fun.

Revenge (2017) is currently streaming on Tubi.

Further reading:

• 40 Horror Movies About Female Rage
• Feminist Filmmaking: 100+ Horror Movies Directed by Women
• 20 ‘Anti-RomCom’ Horror Movies