Deadgirl (2008)

Protip: Sex with zombies just isn't a good idea. Now you know.

Directors: Marcel Sarmiento & Gadi Harel
Studio: Hollywoodmade
Genre: Horror
Country of Release: United States
Year of Release: 2008

Just like The Human Centipede this is another independent horror film I've heard a lot about based on the concept itself. And just like The Human Centipede it failed to impress me whatsoever. The basic plot of this movie is that two socially inept and perpetually horny teenage guys find an unconscious, naked woman tied up to a bed in an abandoned building. They discover that she cannot die no matter how much physical abuse she is given. Being the horny and completely unlikable characters they are, they proceed to treat this "undead" girl as their sex slave. Proceed to lots of scenes of these morons having sex with this woman.

The movie actually almost had something interesting to say about the sexual drives of adolescent men and the objectification of women but due to very naive dialogue (consisting heavily of the word "fuck" every other sentence), lack of anything resembling a sympathetic character, and a poor direction that turns it into a typical zombie splatterfest in its last third it manages to not really accomplish anything. The movie itself is visually unappealing and has a sort of grainy quality to it, the only visuals worth noting are the actually not bad at all make-up and scar effects (from all of the abuse that she takes) on the "deadgirl" of the title.

It was truly an interesting idea and an interesting angle to explore but handled with no maturity whatsoever and nothing that makes it into anything but an over-glorified zombie porn. As far as horror and gore goes, there is some decent gore and some tense yet predictable moments but it's so late into the movie and you have to go through so many uninteresting interactions between unlikable characters that it just isn't worth it. The soundtrack actually captures the mood and youth of the main characters well but isn't particularly memorable.

It's about on the same tier as The Human Centipede but I subtracted .5 because The Human Centipede managed to be sorta amusing in a depraved way while Deadgirl is just a dull, wannabe erotic cliche-fest that manages to be potentially offensive to males in its portrayal of us and offensive to women from the sexual abuse portrayed on a "helpless" woman. Interesting concept but totally dead on the inside without the concept (the fact that the movie never actually comments on its own idea and instead just rolls with it is the nail in the coffin that makes me unable to appreciate this one whatsoever).

Rating: 3.5/10