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Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen, Candice Accola

Ditching school on a lark in favor of downing beers and raising hell at an abandoned mental hospital, two high school kids from the wrong side of the tracks make a horrifying discovery that will test ... read more read more...their morals and serve as the catalyst for a dangerous battle of wills. Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) and JT (Noah Segan) are the kind of kids more likely to be caught smoking in the boy's room than studying in the library, so when they skip out of class to explore a crumbling mental hospital it seems like just another days of mischief and mayhem. What seemed to be business as usual becomes anything but, however, when the two boys break through a rusted door leading to a dark boiler room and discover a naked woman tied to a gurney and covered in plastic. Since the door to the boiler room was rusted shut it seems unlikely that any living soul has inhabited the space for years, yet when the body shows signs of life JT immediately suggests that he and his pal should have a little naughty fun with their helpless captive. But while Rickie may be somewhat reckless, his moral compass still points in the right direction and he wants nothing to do with such sordid affairs. Later, when word of Rickie and JT's discovery gets out, tensions flare as events take a darkly disturbing turn. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 39 min.

Directed by: Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel

Release Date: September 6, 2008

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  • jmanard52
    March 21, 2010
    jmanard52
    Just under two hours, i felt like i was watching 3 hours. There was so much here, just not enough good. This movie tried to do something but I am not sure what. I felt everyone seemed to be overacting and I just did not feel an attachment to the characters. The premise is a solid... read more dark different take on zombie films but seemed to go all over the place in its course to a very very dark ending.
  • paulkoh110
    October 25, 2011
    paulkoh110
    Its hard to watch due to its moral conflicts of rape...but with a zombie. There was no way to make the film any better than the state it was in when the screenwriter first thought of the idea.
  • LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    October 7, 2011
    LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    "You Never Forget Your First Time"

    Two high school boys discover an imprisoned woman in an abandoned mental asylum who cannot die.

    REVIEW

    Call me one sick puppy; I may even be sicker than I th... read moreink, because I really enjoyed this grizzly stomach turner. Morals and a battle of wills come into play when a couple of teen never-do-wells skip class to drink some beers and literally raise some hell in an abandoned mental institute. Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez)and J.T. (Noah Segan)make a horrifying discovery that is far from being anything that is right. Things get real horrid when the two share their "discovery". You will find it pitiful before slowly losing control of your stomach contents. A lot of nudity and graphic sexual situations and more may be hard to digest. You've been warned. At the moment I'm willing to sample a second helping.

    Also in the cast: Candice Accola, Eric Podnar, Nolan Gerard Funk, Christina Blevins and Jenny Spain, as the "Deadgirl". Heavy and moody music by The Liars, The Spokes Men and The Black Summer Crush.
  • superclerk25
    October 6, 2010
    superclerk25
    This is a pretty bad movie. Two guys fool around in an abandoned mental hospital and happen upon a locked door deep in the bowls of the place and open it to see whats inside.
    They find a dirty naked woman chained to a table and do what any teen in a horror movie would do. They ... read morekeep her chained up and have sex with her. After they discover she is a zombie.
    And that's where I tuned out.
    The jump from "Oh, man... it's a woman tied up!" to "We can keep her chained up and have sex with her anytime we want cause she's a zombie!" happens in the space of about three minutes. So stupid.
    I also found one of the main actors, Fernandez, to have one of the most annoying faces in film in a long time. He constantly has this look on his face like he's smirking and trying to kiss the air at the same time and I founf myself growing angry at the stupid expression and that just added to the lameness of the movie. I tuned out and started playing Angry Birds on my iPod about 30 min and barely looked up at the screen after that.
    Avoid this one.
  • flixsterman
    August 1, 2010
    flixsterman
    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 moreained 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 a nice day! :)
  • creepfreak
    January 17, 2010
    creepfreak
    Very unique zombie flick. Probably the most unique zombie movie to come out for the past couple of years. The basic plotline is pretty damn simple. Let's see if you can stomach this...

    Two high school boys find a catatonic female zombie inside an abandoned mental asylum, and t... read morehe remainder of the film a few boys have their way with her. Over, and over, and over again. Straight up necrophilia. It's pretty gross.

    But don't let the plot turn you off so much. Everything is suggested, nothing overly graphic is on display. The film's rated R. It's not rated X, or NC-17, so you won't have to cover your eyes much, if at all. It's just the subject matter that's pretty nasty shit. But it's also a pretty damn interesting teen drama. Teen angst, and students trying to fit in and do what's cool, you know? Peer pressure and all that crap. There's even a love story thrown into the mix (more of a love interest actually), and NO...NOT with the female zombie.

    It's actually one of the better horror films to come out in 2008, one of the lesser know one's too. And there's more than just a tale of a dead girl getting raped here. Under the subtext is a story of the much lonely, and troubled youth. You be the judge. I know already there's one character you'll have a heart for. But it's not the dead chick. And I don't care if she's in really good shape. SHE'S DEAD FOR CHRIST SAKES! Nasty kids.

    Superb performances all around. Not corny at all, and it's actually pretty damn emotional at times. Quality filmmaking. Good stuff!

    Disturbing, and pretty gross film. Leaves you feeling a little dirty at times. But this is one damn unique movie, as weird as that sounds. I highly recommend this to any horror fan!

  • deano
    January 4, 2010
    deano
    This sucks! Questions as to how a girl chained to a table who, despite appearing to be alive, is in fact a zombie, ended up there, who she is and what the cop would make of it are discarded in favour of - and seriously, WTF? - making her "our fuck slave". Not surprisingly, this d... read moreoesn't end well, although by that time J.D.'s (Noah Segan) moved into the basement and raped the girl repeatedly, drunk on the power he lacks in the real world but has down there. Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez), meanwhile, is the sensitive conflicted one with a heart - until the final frame reveals he's just as big as cock as his mate.
  • Stinger839
    October 21, 2009
    Stinger839
    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 morend 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.
  • Beefy
    October 11, 2009
    Beefy
    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 moreevable. This one will probably disturb more those viewers who are not already steeped in horror.
  • fb100002023516744
    October 10, 2011
    fb100002023516744
    A good little horror flick that did something much different than most zombie films would do. I enjoyed it.

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Critic Reviews

Andrew O'Hehir
July 22, 2009
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

Much of the allegorical force Harel and Sarmiento's film has built up is undone by its utterly conventional, lameass-switcheroo ending, which may be an indication that more than enough virtual ink has... Full Review

Rex Reed
July 22, 2009
Rex Reed, New York Observer

Written by a weirdo named Trent Haaga for no other purpose than to outrage, Deadgirl is part S&M porno, part supernatural chiller, and worthy only if you're interested in how far movies can go before ... Full Review

Vadim Rizov
July 21, 2009
Vadim Rizov, Village Voice

[It] has more fantastically blunt, clunky, and downright laughable teen-sex dialogue per minute than anything this side of Larry Clark. Full Review

Christopher Long
September 26, 2009
Christopher Long, Movie Metropolis

The filmmakers don't really push the envelope visually as much as they are trying to conceptually. Full Review

Sean Axmaker
September 20, 2009
Sean Axmaker, Seanax.com

... more pose than convincing psychological portrait, leaving little more than a well executed horror film with a very different kind of sexual danger. Full Review

Cole Smithey
July 31, 2009
Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

Clearly inspired by "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein" (1973), "Deadgirl" is dirty little video nasty that doesn't begin to approach Warhol's superior production that was directed by Paul Morrissey. Full Review

Maitland McDonagh
July 26, 2009
Maitland McDonagh, Miss FlickChick

A pitiless look at the worst aspects of teenage male horndog-dom ... if there weren't some poisonous kernel of truth in its grotesque, testosterone-poisoned "what if?" premise, no-one would be squirming. Full Review

Frank Swietek
July 24, 2009
Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

A pleasant--or I should say pleasantly unpleasant--surprise...a[n]...effective character study dressed up as a grisly horror movie. Full Review

Ethan Alter
July 24, 2009
Ethan Alter, Giant Magazine

Screenwriter Trent Haaga takes the premise to some dark, disturbing places. Unfortunately, the film itself doesn't do full justice to Haaga's script Full Review

Chris Cabin
July 23, 2009
Chris Cabin, Filmcritic.com

It's a tasteless film but it doesn't seem to even enjoy any of the politically correct totems it so openly sprays its bodily fluids over Full Review

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