Deadgirl

Every now and then, a film will come along and be completely worthless. In my opinion, if you take Howard the Duck, any film with Kevin Costner, and the good parts of any Uwe Boll movie, then you have half the trash that is this movie. On paper, this movie sounded cool and intriguing. However, the execution was horrible. A story about a woman found in some abandoned mental hospital, but she's still alive...and not only is she still alive...she can't die!!! How cool does that sound? Well, up until the two leads start raping the "deadgirl" is when the movie takes a turn for the worse. I mean, had it just been them talking to her or making her "there's," it might be bearable. However, because the movie was a step below necrophilia, I felt it unwatchable. This movie is exploitative, disgusting, and an abomination to film itself. How this got into ANY film festival is completely unacceptable and shameful. This is the kind of filth that makes me want to switch my profession from film.

It's like someone wanted to make a film one step above a "snuff" film so they wrote it has a "horror" film by making the victim "un-killable". A group of losers come across as homophobes find a bound up rape victim in an old locked abandoned mental hospital and keep her for themselves to rape and beat, and beat/shoot/stab they do with relish. When she is all used up they set themselves on creating a new one by kidnapping a live girl and turning her into another object to trash. Don't wait for them to get their just rewards, these guys don't only one guy doesn't indulge in the gang's brutality but at the end he get's his own dead girl. The whole film coats itself around the clause that it's OK to brutally rape, stab, degrade a female because she is dead and they do this over and over again throughout the film. There's nothing humorous or entertaining about it for true horror genre fans. This film caters to the sick crowd who like I said enjoy snuff/rape/bondage films but justify their DVD collection by buying into the sham it's classified under "Horror" so therefore it isn't one of those pervert flicks. This is a Very Disturbing movie with no redeeming qualities only a jaded callous individual who has a * for this kind of sick stuff would appreciate it.

This film was entirely unexpected. I was lucky enough to catch a midnight screening for SIFF. Completely unpredictable, and enjoyable to watch. I definitely recommend seeing this !!! It starts out a little shaky, and you're not quite convinced of the characters, but you are sold on the performances by the end. Monster Magic blood could have been more believable. If you cut someones arm off, you expect it to be shooting out, not look like a Halloween prop!!! I kept seeing baby incubators in the film, and I really expected them to play a role in the story, but they had nothing to do with the story. This movie was like a zombie, serial killer love story.

I guess I have a different take on this since I work with abused women and girls for a living. The violent behavior toward the dead girl is very similar to what I see on an almost a weekly basis. Trust me- some of the women who come into my care ARE the living dead- an empty shell that has had everything human beaten out of it. So the boys' reactions don't surprise me at all. The "good" guy is only by default-n he simply doesn't do anything except whine, and is rewarded with his very own dead girl in the end. I guess this hit a little too close to home for me. In my 8 years of working with these horribly used women, I've seen almost everything up close and personal. This movie isn't thought-provoking- just another day in the office for me.

It's an awful movie. As a fact, if a zombie girl bites a man then the man is dead but if she bites a girl, the girl becomes zombie too. Isn't funny. Well the story is some thing like this: Two friends bunk school and find the closed hospital. In the basement they find a dead-girl, who is alive. One of them, bad guy, have sex with her and involves one more dude, but good guy remain uninvolved . Later zombie, the dead-girl got free some how and bites the bad guy who had sex with him and a girl who got trapped by bad guy. On this girl good guy had crush. That guy dies by dead-girl bite and girl became another dead-girl. Original dead-girl ran away. And story ends in the manner that now good guy made his crush, a dead-girl, as his sex slave. It's not worth watching this movie. It's complete waste. It's a damn.

"Deadgirl" was promoted to me as being a perverse and morbid, yet unique and eccentric "coming of age" story for the nowadays adolescent generations. Well, okay, that's one way of putting it, of course. Another way could be stating that this is just a bizarrely experimental and exploitative student film. I'm really inveigled to glorify "Deadgirl" and stimulate others to watch it, as this is a film directed by two ambitious and obviously enthusiast young horror directors, but the truth is that it's honestly not that great. The basic plot contains a handful of ingenious ideas and the setting boosts an overall unsettling atmosphere, but the screenplay unfolds too grotesque and the escalation of the events are far too implausible. Teenage high-school outcasts simply don't turn into relentless rapists & murderers overnight. And now that we are being skeptical anyway: undead girls don't just appear naked on tables in the catacombs of an abandoned asylum without reason, and they certainly don't remain lying there for weeks at the disposal of oversexed nerds! That is, plainly put, what "Deadgirl" is about. One day whilst skipping school, outsiders JT and Rickie hang around an abandoned asylum and discover the seemingly lifeless body of an attractive young woman chained to a table in the one of the basements. Seemingly lifeless, because the girl is alive and apparently can't even be killed. JT promptly satisfies his sickest and twisted sexual fantasies on the defenseless girl, but Rickie at least has some moral decency left. The basement rapidly turns into a rendezvous place for horny losers, but then the fun is over when the girl bites back. The formula of "Deadgirl" is dared and definitely a whole lot more original than the majority of mainstream horror movies being released today, but still it falls short in several other and equally crucial departments. The film is a bit overlong, occasionally very boring and sometimes too gratuitous only for the sake of being gratuitous. The "Coming of Age" theme of "Deadgirl" appears to be secondary to directors' Sarmiento and Harel intent to provoke people by depicting misogynistic sleaze and violence. Noah Segan is not at all convincing as the typical high school rebel gradually metamorphosing into a stoic and ruthless killer, while Shiloh Fernandez is just pitiable as the conscious but loyal friend. The rape sequences, although they are actually more on the verge of necrophilia sequences already, are disgusting and – as mentioned above – completely gratuitous.

I think a zombie movie should have more than one zombie in it. That's the whole crux of zombie movies - so many of them, so few of us, whatever shall we do? Deadgirl has one zombie, a young woman tied to a gurney who occasionally does zombie-like things (like obliterating a ferocious dog with only her bare teeth), but mostly she just passively lies there and gets raped (alot), sodomized, beaten, etc. But that's okay because we have this in-depth study of the teenage boy psyche to compensate for the total lack of zombie-ness. And here it is in a nutshell; whether he's a jock, a rebel, a nerd, a loser, or a stoner - the teenage boy is perfectly fine with sticking his * in a zombie he's found tied up in a basement. It doesn't matter that she smells from festering bullet wounds, or that his friends have already dumped multiple loads in her and there's not a shower or garden hose to be found, or that... she's a zombie. Additionally, teenage boys have no moral compass. Teenage boys have minimal problem solving skills. Teenage boys lack the ability to articulate any thoughts more complex than "F_ck you, homo!" or whatever. Essentially, teenage boys have only slightly more brain activity than the zombies they're raping. Now, back to how much this movie sucks as a zombie movie. JT, the lead rapist, proves how deadgirl can't die by beating her, shooting her, etc. Near the end of the movie, however, he casually thrusts a machete into her skull. That should have killed her, but it doesn't. There's a clip showing how one of deadgirl's bullet wounds is oozing pus. She would have to be alive to generate pus. JT gets scratched by deadgirl, two jocks get bitten by deadgirl and none of them turn into zombies. A girl gets bitten and she does become a zombie. Why? So, the circle of deadgirl rape can continue, of course. The only high point of this movie was when a would be victim of two of the rapists soundly beats the crap out of them in a gas station parking lot. BOTTOM LINE: Basically, this movie is a misogynistic rape fantasy fest for emotionally stunted teenage boys and men.

You might think this is all smarmy and about necrophilia when two teens, Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) and J.T. (Noah Segan), playing hooky find a dead girl (Jenny Spain) in the basement of a mental hospital. Well, she is dead, but she isn't. She's undead. Soon, she becomes a sex tool for J.T and his high school friends. The conflict between the two life-long friends simmers the entire movie until it boils over in the end as we reflect on just what it means to be human. Lots and lots of blood and zombie action, not so much sex. But, if you are looking for a horror film, you will be disappointed, as it is more philosophical and can't be easily fit into a category.

I'm only spending more time on this wretched affair in the hopes of saving you time and money. If you're like me, you're interested, but want to read some reviews to glean more insight before purchasing or renting. If you're like me, you see *mostly* positive reviews. "F--ing brilliant" claims AICN, Etc, etc. I caught the trailer on "The House of the Devil" DVD (which is a SOLID film -- a throwback to the slow burn of Rosemary's Baby, and Halloween, with an engaging lead in Jocelin Donahue) so I was in the mood for another art-house-horror-surprise. Now when people say they want those 2 hours of their life back -- I understand. This is an objective review from a lifelong horror fan to counterbalance all the praise (which, after having seen the film, must be from a hired publicity firm with multiple accounts). So -- you get what the premise is from the trailer: Two boys find a girl locked in the basement of a dilapidated mental institution who cannot die. One wants to sexually abuse her -- the other, you assume, is the moral compass of the audience. It's an interesting premise, and the film looks artistic enough in shot choices so you know it's not an over glossed, pre-packaged, Hollywood, cooking cutter film. But you assume there will be more to it, right? A twist. A point. A morality fable. ******spoilers******** But what you get instead are two VERY unlikable leads who rape, or who later encourage others to rape -- a zombie girl. FOR TWO HOURS. The film offers nothing more, and struggles to offer insight/understanding into why these kids behave in the manner they do in between shots of them complaining about the need for more lube. God, it's horrible. The painfully thin finale in no way satiates what you want to see happen to these deplorable people you've just unfortunately spent so much time with. All these postings about "art" relating to the film are nonsense. You can see art in a bug splatter. Darkly Existential? "It's a zombie girl getting raped for two hours." Who read this script and thought it was good? Who decided to make this thinking it was daring? Horror films, at their best, provide some fun scares, and a chilling moment or two, but bottom line: "It's a zombie girl getting raped for two hours." So if that sounds like a fun time for you, have at it. If It doesn't, RUN SCREAMING.