Comments on: Review: DEADGIRL

By: mia

mia — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:13:35 +0000

this is not a horror film. this is a soft porno made for little kids who are into necrophilia, maybe vampires. zombies are pretty much the same thing; they’re both dead. this movie was in no way scary, no way was it intelligent. it’s about little kids who are so desperate that they may as well have been having sex with their pets while they were at it. i’d say incest or beastiality is one step above this movie, i’d much rather watch a movie about incest than a movie about kids having sex with something that can not hate, or enjoy the sex it is forced to have. the moment you think, “fuck yes the dog is going to own that kid” is ruined 3 seconds later when the dumb zombie whore kills the dog. this movie was completely stupid and i spent most of my time playing on the computer while one sex scene after another went by until the last 10 minutes of the film actually involved something that could be labeled as ‘horror.’

By: gholson

gholson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:21:14 +0000

I didn’t like DEADGIRL because I didn’t think it was well-written or well-acted. The lack of quality in those two specific ingredients was bad enough to overshadow any of the impact of the horror at hand.

By: Matthew M

Matthew M — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:06:45 +0000

I’m sorry, but I just cannot stand this. This Kyle fellow above is not the only person who saw that subtext in the movie. About half of the people who saw it did. Just because YOU never managed to grasp it doesn’t mean you can label it as pointless.
I’ll be the first to admit that Deadgirl is not a masterpiece, it is flawed, but can you at least give it credit for trying to be an intelligent horror, that terrifies viewers by the realism its plot possesses alone?
You’ve known people like JT. You know you have. If you haven’t then of course you missed the point of the movie; you’ve been sheltered. You don’t understand the true darkness existing within the heart of a teenage loser. That’s the entire point of the movie. The sadness and hopelessness that these characters feel, that turns them into monsters.
After I watched Deadgirl, I was mortified. Not by anything jumping out at me, but by the film’s subject matter itself, and my own understanding of its reality.

By: Janice

Janice — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:05:38 +0000

I just watched this film, I was really intrigued by the soundtrack…Does anyone know where I can get it?

By: adam charles

adam charles — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:46:47 +0000

The main problem with DEADGIRL is that at the point of developing the script they knew they were just trying to make a film that was going to try and push buttons. Films like MARTYRS, and others like it, aren’t controversial because of the material so much as their visuals. They became hard to watch, they weren’t developed specifically to be hard to watch. DEADGIRL wants nothing more than just to get you to say “that was fucked up,” and it doesn’t understand AT ALL what it takes to get you to say it; and the first thing it takes is believability that the actions are believable. I don’t believe for a second that either of those 2 kids would do what they end up doing. I find it hard to believe ANY kid would do what they do. Not because it’s immoral, but because it’s disgusting; and I ESPECIALLY don’t think that a high school jock would even consider it.

It wants to be hard to sit through because of its content, but it’s hard to sit through because it doesn’t understand what makes good shockers good. A good shocking film is a film that’s good and has shocks. A bad shocking film is a film that wants to shock you and builds a film around it.

By: Peter Hall

Peter Hall — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:24:55 +0000

Oh, I didn’t miss the point. DEADGIRL doesn’t have a point to miss.

It’s misogynistic because as a film it does nothing but exploit a viewer by proxy of how it exploits not just one but all of its female characters. Whether or not the men are good guys has nothing to do with it.

I get that it divides audiences, but that doesn’t make it a good movie. Michael Bay can divide an audience as much as these two did. Not a big accomplishment.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:50:45 +0000

You missed the point. It shows men in a horrible light, how can it be misogynistic? It’s a controversial film about two bestfriends who are going nowhere fast, and realize what’s the point. The direction is much like a Haneke film in how it doesn’t judge its characters or their actions. Instead of shooting up their school after being bullied, they chose to do this… all the parallels are there. It has a great soundtrack, with an amazing score that’s oddly similar to Donnie Darko. If you are looking for something twisted, nihilistic and different from other horror films, this indie gem is worth a look. It’s supposed to divide the audience much like the amazing Martyrs.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:03:55 +0000

boner!