michaeltrivedi This is a really good movie. I watch a lots of horror movies. Reading the reviews for this one, I always skipped it in favor of the more adult related ones. Big mistake.Deadgirl is an awesome movie that keeps you glued to your seat. There was probably only once or twice during the entire movie that I thought about something other than the movie. That's how you know it's good!It's about a group of teenagers that discover a living dead girl in an abandoned insane asylum. She can't die, and they learn that if she bites you, you remain immortal too. The teens have sex with her before they discover this though. I don't know. You cannot properly explain this movie to portray how great it is.What enthuses me most is that the storyline is so basic and stupid. But watching it, it has no real deep philosophical analysis of life nor are the characters' lives anything but ordinary. And yet I couldn't stop watching. Can't explain it.Really really good stuff.7 Stars

bowmanblue Yup, it's another 'zombie film.' In a market saturated by the undead, is there really room for one more? Actually... in this case, yes.'Deadgirl' may – unsurprisingly – be about a dead girl (who, for all intents and purposes, is indeed a zombie), but it's not just another story about a plague of flesh-eating ghouls overrunning a small town, village, college, whatever. In fact, there's quite a lot left up to the viewers' imagination (plot-wise, not nudity-wise).Two high school guys hang out in the local (abandoned) mental hospital, only to find an area with an attractive woman tied up and, presumably, left to rot. She doesn't talk much. In fact, the only things that indicate she's alive is the fact that she moves a bit (and occasionally tries to take a bite out of you). Therefore, one of the guy's first instincts is to have sex with her. Yes, he's not that likable – we're not expected to root for him throughout the film's runtime! His friend has other ideas and sees the distaste in all of this, yet he does nothing to really stop this and, before long, guys are queuing up to have a go on 'Deadgirl.' We never find out who she is, why she's there who left her. It's not really about her. It's about the boys and the choices they make. Plus we have aspects of peer pressure and bullying, driving those victimised to extreme courses of action that they wouldn't normally take.I mentioned the nudity. The deadgirl is nude at all times, so be prepared for 'rape' to play a major part in this film. However, there's not an awful lot of violence and, much of what there is, happens off camera. It's not an action film by any standards. Don't expect a fast-paced thriller. It's character-driven. Sometimes you'll agree with some of them, other times you'll be crying out for retribution to befall them. Some people have criticised the film over the fact that it just so happens that five high school boys all are rapists, but you'll have to gloss over that fact to watch the film.Just because there isn't much action or gore, don't be lulled in thinking that this film isn't a horror movie. Its horror is in the situation and the human actions to an inhuman experience.

begob Bullying jocks v disaffected stoners in a high school, with an other-side-of-the-tracks love interest playing along.Dull, but the zombie concept could have brought out some interesting twists.The dialogue was weak and I didn't like any of the characters. The hero especially was an ineffectual whiner, and the ending showed him up as completely worthless. JT was good as a sociopath, but there was no background for him except his resentment at being scum of the earth.The writers struggled to create drama, so they tossed in an uninspired punch-up and kidnapping to move the plot along. With half an hour left it turned into a fairly good comedy, as it looked like JT was falling in love with the zombie, with a funny fight scene in a gas station. But that fizzled out and it went back to being serious. There wasn't even an attempt to explain the zombie - she arrived and left a complete mystery, which made the fate of her victims pointless.As for the sex ... well, the idea is unpleasant for various reasons, but there's nothing graphic.

Brian BarrSinister I'm a huge fan of both the zombie sub-genre, and ambitious indie films. I came across "Deadgirl" on a list of most underrated indie horror films. I settled in thinking that the premise had a lot of promise to actually generate some chills and nail biter moments and boy oh boy was I wrong. Deadgirl is a juvenile,unambitious, convoluted film that doesn't know what it wants to convey and has plot/event holes in it that you could drive a semi-truck through sideways.I allowed myself to follow the cliché main characters' angst-ridden journey to the abandoned mental asylum, all the way to the unsealing of the ominous door that contained the title character, The Dead Girl. What followed was a confused, lazy approach to story telling that left me asking more questions that it even attempted to answer. The cheesiness was overshadowed only by the depth of the misogynist,homo-erotic exhibitionist overtones.J.T and Wheeler seem not only OK with,but anxious to watch each other have sex with "Joann", and eager to bring Ricky into the fold(s)necrophilia, as a taboo subject matter, is nothing new to me as I saw Jorg Buttgereit's "Nekromantik" almost 2 decades ago, to much better effect. This story is so full of undefined,lazily written elements it became frustrating to watch. The school parking lot beat down and subsequent kidnapping of Ricky and Wheeler was both unbelievable and completely stupid. Follow that up by antagonist/jock/bad-boy Johnny's being goaded into oral sex with the carnivorous Joann and you have a clear picture of the childish,ridiculous devices used to tell this potentially interesting story. I won't even begin to question seemingly random,misused elements like: the ominous black dog that I had assumed had some supernatural link to Joann(boy was I wrong; why Wheeler's whining,screeching admission of having their own private sex-slave motivated Johnny to even bother to kidnap Wheeler and Ricky and investigate the asylum. There are so many completely unreal and stupid attempts at moving the story along, that this already lengthy review would be twice as long as it already is.I will concede that Joann's makeup special effects are masterfully done and chilling (see: Ricky's daydream.) If you are about 14 years old, completely bored, and have no sense of the art of story narrative, please watch this movie. Anyone else that watches this ridiculous B.S is pretty much wasting an hour and change that will leave you feeling dumber for the experience.