deadgirl: June 2009

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Where few have dared to go

"An indie winner. Goes places few horror movies have dared to go before in its frank and disturbing depiction of necrophilia (combined with a surprisingly effective coming-of-age story!") - Fangoria

The August issue features a page about Deadgirl-star Noah Segan, but there's a more comprehensive piece in the September issue which we're anxiously awaiting. Perfect for our 9/15 DVD release...

Some reactions from over there

Deadgirl (or as they're writing it, Dead Girl) was released in the UK this month and we've gathered some online reactions:

"A film that will no doubt stay with you for a long time to come." - World of Film

"Delightfully dark and thought provoking. Could not recommend this any higher." - Rough Cut Reviews

"It is a deeply troubling feature, but also, perhaps oddly for a film steeped in the supernatural, utterly honest and believable – and its capacity to haunt will never die." - Eye For Film

"A great change of pace, hitting on the horrific potential inside everyone. Deadgirl is really about how the freedom of being outside of society can make you power hungry, vicious, and obsessed with the alternate world where you have control." - Horror Yearbook

"A mini-masterpiece. And, in an age where audiences seem near impervious to trauma, it manages a rare feat: to genuinely shock." - Den of Geek

[click each quote for full review]

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Official Poster

Deadgirl screenwriter Trent Haaga called to tell us to get back to this blog and start updating since there have been a lot of reviews and write-ups and new developments about our upcoming release. As always, he's right. So here's to a new beginning...

[click to enlarge]

Saturday, June 6, 2009

"Fascinating and Vaguely DIstasteful"

Total Sci-Fi previews Deadgirl for the UK release next week. We'll save you a few minutes by giving you the highlights here:

"Fascinating and vaguely distasteful"'
"An interesting blend on coming of age and horror themes"
"Deadgirl is at least a film that provokes debate."
"An original, if vaguely sleazy, twist on the undead"

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"The thing's pretty much fucking brilliant."

– Ain't It Cool News

"A dark, violent satire. Supremely disturbing."

– The Washington Post

"One of the smartest teen horrors I've watched in some time...Two new faces at Toronto who show more artistic verve and bravery than many of the festival's masters are co-directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel, the filmmakers behind the clever, scary, unsettlingly sexual teenage bondage thriller..."

– IndieWIRE

"Forget what you've heard. Past any controversy, Deadgirl is a film beautiful in every way: about friendship, love, rejection, obsession and all the horror that comes along with such teenaged emotions. See it and make it the classic it deserves to be."
- Fangoria

"Deadgirl will remind you of the best of Cronenberg. Cleverly written, stylishly directed and morbidly fascinating. It isn't your average cookie-cutter horror film."
- Film Threat

"Unsettling. Audacious. This adolescent fantasy gone wrong proves difficult to dismiss."
- Hollywood Reporter

"Goes place few horror movies have dared to go."

- Fangoria

"You'll find yourself glued to the screen. It's sick. It's gross. It's lurid. But you can't say it doesn't work."

- Kansas City Star

"Sick, twisted, and delightful. Deadgirl brims with unpleasant moments that are sure to polarize audiences – either utterly repulsing them or making them laugh with discomfort."
- Detroit Metro Times

"A nihilistic teen horror film that plays a both a grim morality tale and insanely dark comedy."
- msn

"An immediate indie classic and one of the best teen horror thrillers in years."

– BloodyDisgusting

"Floats smoothly between dark comedy and horror, and the result is a coming-of-age film like you've never seen before."

– SlashFilm

"Built around a stellar premise and a nonstop flow of shocking imagery and set pieces, Deadgirl is sure to be one of the most talked about films of the year."

– Twitch

"A disturbing adolescent male fantasy... Skirts the edge without going over and judging from the raucous reception, twisted auds clearly do exist for such blatantly 'wrong' material."

– Variety

"The bastard child of John Hughes and David Cronenberg!"

– Colin Geddes, Toronto Film Festival

"A teen-angst-and-terror opus."

– Fangoria

"The horror genre is in need of vastly original ideas like this."

– FirstShowing

"Legitimately frightening and surprisingly funny."

– Metro Canada

"A cautionary tale for the ages."
– San Francisco Bay Guardian

"The premise alone is pure brilliance, but where the film takes its teenage characters to is a real revelation of both talent and the male psyche."
–JustPressPlay

"Affords the viewer an intriguing examination of character, virtue, karma, and some really cool plot twists along the way."

– The Culture Pin