deadgirl: 2009 Top Tens (part 5)

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

2009 Top Tens (part 5)

With just a few days left in the year, here are links to some recent additions ...

HORROR YEARBOOK / Top Ten Horror of 2009
"Deadgirl really gives us something completely different... The film is really about what horrible things one can be tempted to do and how lack of acceptance and belittlement can make you turn to find power and control in dark, twisted places."

HORROR-MOVIES / Top Ten Horror of 2009
"Truly one of the most disturbing movies I have seen in a long time and equally a truly well written and fascinating experience."

ALL THINGS HORROR / Top Eleven Horror of 2009
"Some say it's vile, unwatchable garbage, others laud it with praise for its unwavering horror... a film that horrified me, made me think, and made me want to watch again immediately with a scrutinizing eye."

WILDSIDE CINEMA / The Best of 2009

DEAD LANTERN / The Best Horror of 2009
"A well made, original flick in a sea of unoriginal zombie films... the performances are outstanding but it was this weird morally ambiguous narrative going on throughout the film that really succeeded in creating a reaction in viewers, be it positive or negative."

THE SCREAMSTRESS / The Best of the Decade

UPDATE: And already a few more have trickled in. So there'll probably be one more post before New Years. Huge thanks to everyone who continues to champion the movie.

1 comment:

the jaded viewer said...: Awesome flick. I recently reviewed your movie as well. Head over to the jaded viewer for my review

Deadgirl is on my top 10 list for sure (check back next week about Thursday)

One of the best movies of 2009!; December 30, 2009 at 5:45 PM

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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