Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen

Rickie and JT are kids from the wrong side of the tracks. One afternoon, the pair skip class, and entertain themselves by slamming beers and causing mischief at an abandoned mental hospital. Breaking ...( read more  read more... )through a rusted door that leads into a boiler room, they discover the naked body of a woman strapped to a gurney and draped in plastic. At first they suspect they have stumbled into the lair of a deranged killer, but the rusted entrance is proof that no one else has been in the space for years. Things take a dark turn when the body starts to show signs of life.

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R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Directed by: Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel

Release Date: September 6, 2008

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  • October 21, 2009
    This is a well executed serious take on the outrageous b horror-exploitation flicks this writer usually makes.

    This is effective as a "make you think about fucked up shit" movie, not a jumpscare thriller or a gore showcase. As such, it has to make some characters that matter, a...( read more)nd it does. These characters have dimension and their actions correspond to what we can expect of them.

    I watched it twice. Would serve as a nice boys' version companion piece to Teeth in the category of modern (super fucking weird) sexual development horror.
  • October 12, 2009
    Thought this was just missing something, didn't know what, but it sure did miss something in there. Not a bad storyline, but Idk, left me on my hunger
  • October 11, 2009
    Another instance where all the hype seems unjustified. It will require a second viewing to be sure, but the film felt overlong and undernourished. The shock scenes weren't that shocking (sorry, I've seen too much horror cinema), the characters were unlikable and somewhat unbeli...( read more)evable. This one will probably disturb more those viewers who are not already steeped in horror.
  • September 21, 2009
    If you are a fan of Deadgirl then I should apologize in advance. It wouldn't be politically correct for me to trash your film without showing some sensitivity and empathy for your point of view. It's just that a movie about high school boys keeping a naked zombie girl ch...( read more)ained in the basement so they can repeatedly rape her didn't appeal to me. Not only that but your film is missing a few key elements, namely empathetic characters, a little comic relief, intelligence, logic, appeal for anyone with an IQ above 50, etc. etc. etc. So there, I've said my peace. Hope you'll forgive me for throwing a few disparaging words at this little lump of cinematic tripe. Have good day. My best to your Mum! :)
  • June 16, 2009
    If you found a seemingly dead girl naked and chained to a table in the basement of some far away abandoned nut hospital, who's just animated enough to have, and enjoy, sex, would you have sex with her? What if your friend bashed her head, shot her three times and then raped her? ...( read more)Golly! what would you do? I can imagine the scriptwriters entertained some notion that they were exploring the limits of friendship, but ... to pretend that this is anything more than a sick fuck movie is fantasy. One of the few times I've asked myself "Why would someone make this movie?" but it's handled competently, the production values are good, and the actors acceptably transparent. It's not bad. Check your moral compass at the door.
  • November 10, 2009

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    Deadgirl (2008)
    Directed by Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel.
    Written by Trent Haaga.
    WIth Jenny Spain, Shiloh Fernandez, and Noah Segan.

    Two high school delinquents find an undead young woman and make a sex slave out of her. Better than you might think. Perhaps the best necrophilia movie I have seen.

    When I read any description of a horror movie that includes the words, "teenagers" or "students," it stops me in my tracks, and I groan in disappointment. However, it was conducive to the plot of this horror yarn that the two antagonistic protagonists be just that.

    The pair are working class high school misfits. (I must note that they are little more working class than the jocks and cheerleaders at most high schools, who stridently compensate for their ordinariness by engaging in meaningless make-work activities and ardently conform in order to raise their perceived social status.) The two boys in this film are misfits only in the sense that they aren't on the football team. Like all teenage boys (and girls, let's be honest) they are also dying of horniness.

    Rickie (Fernandez) predictably covets a cheerleader possessing no redeemable qualities, who is saving herself to be date raped by the captain of the football team some drunken Homecoming night. One afternoon, his friend J.T. (Segan) convinces him to skip class to drink beer in an abandoned insane asylum. Where else?

    Once there, they discover an inexplicably re-animated, shapely young dead girl (Spain) chained to a gurney in the bowels of the hospital. She just happens to be spread-eagled and naked. Of course the boys, out of their sense of civic responsibility and moral conscience for upholding the social contract, immediately do their best to help -NOT! J.T., being an avowed romantic, drops his pants in a heated frenzy of morbid lust and fervently mounts her on the spot. Rickie wants to hold out for the elusive, snobbish, chastity-belted cheerleader, and declines.

    J.T. turns the basement of the booby hatch into his own personal brothel, and begins regularly using the living dead girl as a hump-thing. Ever the enterprising entrepreneur, he starts to pimp her to his friends as well. In the process, J.T. discovers that she has one odd trait -an insatiable lust to feast upon human flesh. He also discovers that if she bites another girl, he will have a second, instant dead-alive sexual receptacle. With a third upstanding friend, J.T. attempts to find a suitable subject. After being thoroughly stomped by a tough lesbian who doesn't care to become his next zombiefied sperm dumpster, he settles on a less challenging target: the cheerleader.

    Now the honorable Rickie, after being severely beaten by the cheerleader's jock boyfriends for trying to court her, is misguidedly driven to attempt a rescue. The jocks, meanwhile, have become J.T.'s clients, with laughable and satisfying results. They try to turn the tables on J.T., Rickie involves himself, the dead girl gets loose, and everything goes haywire as all of the characters realize unwanted consequences.

    While the premise is bizarre, the behavior depicted is exactly what one would expect from the characters portrayed. Of course the boys mount the living corpse hottie. They don't even need Rohypnol! "Thank you, God!" However, boys will be boys. After seeing fellow female students of mine get caught on campus trying to sneak a peek at nude male models in a university painting class, I can't point a gender-specific finger of blame here.

    In fact I dare speculate, that were I to find the right person strapped naked to a gurney with no witnesses, I might even point my own finger in a given direction for a cheap thrill. But I digress. Just like those little voices that we all have commanding us to "KILL! KILL!," I rather suspect that most of us would secretly love to possess our own completely submissive sex slave. At least I would -just not a dead one that is blindly carnivorous and smells bad.

    The only puzzling aspect to the teens' shenanigans is that while the teenagers are so heterosexually desirous of a female, they have no qualms about watching each other naked in the act, and following in each other's sloppy-slimy wake, which is behavior that smacks of anything but heterosexuality.

    At any rate, while the premise is unlikely, it is handled quite skillfully in a straightforward fashion, as a logical sequence of events. Deadgirl is well conceived, if distasteful. It is not a film that was made for gratuitous sexploitation and campy gore. It isn't a comedy. There really isn't much substantial nudity or splatter. Deadgirl manages to stand on its own merits. The writers, I suspect, were merely reflecting on existing behaviors and mentalities, and pondered, "what if?"

    Within the context of the unconventional premise, the movie makes sense and it works. I recommend it to those with a good sense of humor, who like twisted cinema. It is well produced, but not for the effete, or those who like to project a sense of propriety by publicly condemning films that portray morally improper subject matter regardless of the point of such movies. So fans of such films as Sleepless in Seattle, Ordinary People, and The Birdcage keep away, you sissies. Go watch Snow White and return to denying that you ever think about sex or ever diddle yourselves. Liars!

    " ... a troubling, attention-grabbing and already polarizing first feature by directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel ... DEADGIRL is one screen shocker whose ideas have and will provoke more attention and discussion -both positive and negative, than its visceral sights." -Michael Gingold, Fangoria

  • November 8, 2009
    Teenage boys will do anything for sex, this movie proves it. It's accurate in that way. It's one of the best modern horror films I've see in a while thanks in part by Troma alum Trent Haaga for writing it. Also nice to see how it takes itself seriously but doesn't overdo it.
  • November 1, 2009
    Extremely difficult movie for me to watch. I am very desensitized by gore and violence after seeing so much horror and cult films, but this film contains almost none of that. Instead the shock relies mainly on the subject matter of the film.
    It its complicated to know what to fe...( read more)el. Morally this film pushed some boundaries with me, and I was not disturbed by movies like Necromantik or Aftermath. I suppose raping a reanimated corpse is much more disturbing than a real dead one, and even more disturbing was the character's perception over the matter. Almost like Rivers Edge with necrophilia.
    Besides it's corny premise, this is a complicated and well done film that is about some very fucked up shit. Anyone that cannot look past the grossness of this movie and see it for what it really is; its too bad, but I understand.
  • October 30, 2009
    "Oh, it's all about you"
  • October 22, 2009
    Wonder what it would look like to rape a zombie??? well... here is your chance to find out. disturbing, but original. a lot of dialogue actually. not a zombie movie that you've seen before. not as good as the hype said it was.

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  • markclarno1
    July 29, 2008
    Deadgirl was shot completely digitally, the first feature production to use the Codex "tapeless" system, continuing a trend first pioneered by David Fincher for his recent film Zodiac - but applied to an indie budget.

    Deadgirl is equal parts twisted teen comedy, unsettling dark fantasy and good old-fashioned horror.
  • markclarno1
    July 29, 2008
    Things take a dark turn when the body shows signs of life, and JT suggests he and Rickie shouldn’t waste the opportunity to have some lewd and lusty fun with their naked captive. Horrified and disgusted by his friend’s intentions in this unusual circumstance, Rickie struggles with his own moral compass. When word of their discovery spreads, a dangerous battle of wills erupts between friends, leading to a disturbing climax.

    Directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel took on a script deemed “too shocking to produce” and managed to avoid the pitfalls of exploitation, successfully delivering outrageous and sardonic thrills and chills. While already sounding perverse, Trent Haaga’s script also contains a supernatural angle that puts the situation even more over the edge, chucking the old-fashioned concept of a coming-of-age film into the garbage...
  • markclarno1
    July 29, 2008
    Bound to draw controversy by virtue of its premise alone, Deadgirl spins a smart and surprisingly funny tale of friendship, morality and the horror of growing up.

    Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) and JT (Noah Segan) are the kids you remember from high school as skids or bangers – dudes from the wrong side of the tracks. One afternoon, the pair skip class and escape their adolescent despair by quaffing beers and causing mischief at an abandoned mental hospital. Breaking through a rusted door that leads into a boiler room, they discover the naked body of a woman strapped to a gurney and covered in plastic. At first they suspect they’ve stumbled into the lair of a deranged killer, but the rusted entrance is proof that no one else has been in the space for years...

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