Ok, so three movies in and I get a winner. Deadgirl from the start had me very interested. Seeing as how it’s “from the same people that brought you ‘Heathers’ and ‘Hellraiser'” written on the (digital) box. High expectations, sure. I was totally ready for this movie to let me down, and surprised when it didn’t.
Deadgirl is the story of Rickie and J.T. just your average everyday highs school slackers. One day they decided to skip school, as slackers are want to do, and drink beer at the “nut house” an abandoned mental hospital. After the usual montage of drinking and destroying things in the hospital, they decide to investigate the grounds, more specifically, the basement. What they find down there will be what drives the rest of the movie.
Chained to a gurney is the naked body of a girl. They don’t know how long she has been there and think that someone has killed her and left. They soon discover that she is not actually dead. J.T. then decides to “have a little fun” with her since no one is around. Yes… that kind of fun. Rickie wants no part of it and leaves. Later J.T. finds Rickie and explains that he choked the girl to death, and yet she still lives. Realizing that he has a girl chained to a bed, naked, that he can do ANYTHING with, J.T. become infatuated with her, to the point of insanity.
As the story goes on, things get more and more messed up. More friends (and enemies) are involved and a realization is made. The girl cannot die. Like no matter what is done to her, she never dies. After a rather outrageously creepy and yet funny scene the deadgirl is beaten horribly and J.T. realizes that he needs to have another girl be bitten by his sex slave in order to make another. In the end things go from bad to worse… for everyone.
Deadgirl does a really good job of basically being a movie about zombies, but never actually evoking the word zombie. The deadgirl feels no pain, never talks, she can’t die and occasionally bites people who then become living dead. As a character, J.T. is just straight up creepy. The movie itself never allows the viewer to really feel like it is anything other than just a “slice of life” kind of film. It’s very dark and at times was pretty uncomfortable to watch. Not that while viewing it I had any emotional attachment to the deadgirl, but for Rickie who was trying to stop his friends spiral into madness.
I doubt that Deadgirl will ever win any awards, however it is well worth watching. If you are a fan of horror movies that take themselves seriously, it is well worth a watch. Also the main character of Rickie is played by a guy that is a dead ringer for a young Joaquine Phoenix. I found it on Netflix searching for other movies to watch. Totally worth you time, and a nice surprise for me in the beginning of this marathon.
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