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| The voluptuous and ambiguous poster for Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel's Deadgirl |
QUICK REVIEW:
High school teen friends Ricky and JT ditch school and enjoy themselves in an abandoned mental hospital. In its basement, they find a naked dead girl chained to a gurney. JT quickly sees the advantages of this discovery!
Yes, this is a film about necrophiliac teenagers with raging hormones, which, unsurprisingly, produces some really sick scenes. Deadgirl is horror in a realist, Eli Roth-reminiscent modern fashion with cool effects and some cool scenes as well.
Shiloh Fernandez (Evil Dead (2013)) is hot as Ricky and Noah Segan (Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)) also gives a good performance as buddy JT.
At times, I found that Deadgirl takes it too far, and another detractor is that both its beginning and ending are weak. - And that composer Joseph Bauer (Elf-Man (2012)) seems to have nicked elements of his score from sci-fi drama masterpiece Donnie Darko (2001).
Deadgirl is written by Trent Haaga (American Maniacs (2012)) and directed by Marcel Sarmiento (Heavy Petting (2007)) and Gadi Harel (Operation Midnight Climax (2002)). Sarmiento has a thriller coming out next year entitled Faceless (2016).
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Watch the trailer for the R-rated movie here
Cost: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
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[Deadgirl premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was screened at 9 other smaller festivals around the world. It seems that it was then released straight-to-DVD, and no numbers concerning its budget or box office or video sales are to be found unfortunately. But since it is a low-budget film, it may have become successful with its DVD sales.]
What do you think of Deadgirl?
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