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Deadgirl (Unrated Director's Cut)
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Genre | Horror |
Format | NTSC, Color, Multiple Formats, Director's Cut, Widescreen |
Contributor | Candice Accola, Marcel Sarmiento;Gadi Harel, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen, Shiloh Fernandez |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 41 minutes |
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Product Description
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It has been called "audacious" (Hollywood Reporter), "unsettlingly sexual" (IndieWire) and "pretty much f*ing brilliant" (Ain't It Cool News). Thought to be too controversial to release, it would go on to shock festival audiences, outrage religious groups, and blow away midnight movie crowds from coast to coast. It remains one of the most daringly original and disturbing films of our time. Shiloh Fernandez (Red), Noah Segan (Brick), Michael Bowen (Kill Bill) and Candice Accola (Juno) star in this story of two high school misfits who cut school to explore the remains of an abandoned hospital. The gruesome discovery they make will test the very limits of their sanity and tear apart their young lives forever: A woman stripped naked and chained to a table. She's abandoned, beautiful and dead... or is she? from the producer of Hellraiser and Heathers comes this depraved, poignant and genre-busing new indie classic about intimacy, morality and the horror of growing up. You may scream in terror, gasp with disgust, or debate it for days, but one thing is for certain: You will never forget DEADGIRL.
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Brilliant --Aint It Cool News
a coming-of-age film like you've never seen before --SlashFilm
One of the smartest teen horrors I've watched in some time... --Indie Wire
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : 030306817798
- Director : Marcel Sarmiento;Gadi Harel
- Media Format : NTSC, Color, Multiple Formats, Director's Cut, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 41 minutes
- Release date : September 15, 2009
- Actors : Michael Bowen, Noah Segan, Candice Accola, Shiloh Fernandez
- Studio : Dark Sky Films
- ASIN : B002EOVXBK
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #81,848 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,945 in Horror (Movies & TV)
- #4,203 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #13,671 in Drama DVDs
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To be sure, if you're the kind of extreme horror fan who likes the pushing of taboos just for the sake of pushing taboos, and if you're well-versed in the genre, this might seem like a relatively tame example. For instance, it lacks the explicitness of A Serbian Film (though it's plenty explicit by comparison with more mainstream films), the existential brutality of Martyrs (though again, it's brutal enough), or the almost cartoonish over-the-top-ness of something like Cannibal Holocaust. But what you actually get is, like other examples of the best of extreme horror, is a masterful use of the shocking and disgusting to explore the dark side of human existence.
Admittedly, some of the allegory in this film might seem a little too "on point." For instance, the action begins while the characters explore an abandoned insane asylum. The message--that the film is going to explore characters who've lost their sanity and that the rest of the world no longer invests in correcting their failures--is clear. But even though some of its allegory might be a bit heavy-handed, the characters are interesting enough and their actions are shocking enough to actually carry that message surprisingly well anyway.
It's hard to do anything original with zombies, so saturated is the subgenre. However, this is decidedly unlike any other zombie movie I've seen, and one of relatively few truly original entries into the genre.
The ideas at work in "Deadgirl" are so complex that calling this a "horror film" is perhaps not really accurate given the limitations by which the genre is judged. Admittedly, the film employs standard horror grammar, but by keeping an eye firmly fixed on economy and purpose, the directors avoid the pitfalls and cleverly make those limits work in their favor.
For example, the girl in question, while an "object" in strictly horror terms, is carefully crafted to be something other than a person - she functions as a perfect cipher onto which alternative meanings can be projected. Unlike typical "horror girls," she becomes as profoundly disturbing a concept as anything that contemporary horror has given us. She seems less an external creature than something within the characters. A fever dream of sexual, pathological-narcissism or trauma-porn-attachment made flesh. The context in which the story functions, an abandoned asylum is also rendered abstractly enough that one might read it equally as a metaphor or a place in the real world; an image of the rotting mind where deviance lurks - normally it's just a spooky ol' building when used in horror
The characters enter such a bottomless pit in terms of real human behavior that whether intentional or not, a sense of allegory provides grounding for the audience, while grounding is desperately missing in the world these characters occupy.
The film's male protagonists are are certainly of their time and they seem quite real to me. As with many kids today their sensitivities seem bleached away by what we all witness, a relentless, post-narrative media blast from earliest childhood and education without adequate social breadth. Their personal, familial inadequacies here seem to create a hunger for an effortless, narcissistic attachment. These are familiar kids. Placing them into this particular tale and intelligently imagining an outcome is what the directors have done. It is startling how effective it is.
While "Deadgirl"could easily have come across as a simply ghastly spectacle, the film transcends genre, as well as outflanking the need to simply entertain, shock or titillate. By its solid execution, its restraint and through the indigestible, dark brilliance of its idea, the film rises to the level of art.
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It doesn’t take long to dislike the ‘lads’ and the feeling gets worse when they come across the girl, but the film is misleading. This had the makings of a hilarious fun comedy [in a bizarre ‘Wasting Away’ sense] but starts way too seriously to ever become a comedy. It’s a twisted and cynical view of the world but that’s not a bad thing. As the film progresses the negative feelings give way to acceptance and then compelling fascination as the character interactions come into play in a philosophically scathing social indictment sort of way.
The single disc opens to three trailers before offering play, scene select, extra features [commentary on/off, behind the scenes, make-up effects gallery, trailer] and audio set-up [5.1/2.0]. Rated 18 this has violence, nudity and swearing [F & C words] plus a whole range of disturbing ‘taboo’ topics thrown into the mix from necrophilia, sodomy, rape, murder…. [you get the idea]. The real disconcerting issue here though are the thought processes and reactions of the boys but its not the real gore fest you’d expect, although there are a few good ‘jumpy’ moments in the first half. Highly disturbing but also thought provoking but not without flaws, but still a good ***** view.
It's also a great movie (What i saw anyway)... great, original premise, messed up story line. I would recommend this. but it is fairly explicit (scenes of sex, violence, and swearing), so don't watch it with your parents!