You Never Forget Your First Tee

Thanks to the fine folks at Cryptic Cotton, you can now purchase the first Official Deadgirl T-Shirt. Click here to see the sweet-ass model these guys "dug up" ... and while you're there, make sure to check out their other designs too!

Moore Thoughts

We never tire of seeing Deadgirl pop up on Twitter ... the good ("That DeadGirl movie was a trip..that movie is crazy as hell..but good" - Asali14; the bad ("Deadgirl is the shittiest thing ever" - CaptFunk) and the uncertain ("Just watched Deadgirl. Wtf was that!?" - Scarielley). But this was an especially exciting morning, seeing that Tony Moore, illustrator and co-creator of the phenomenal The Walking Dead (soon to be a kick-ass AMC series), watched the movie and dug it enough to share his thoughts. Very, very cool.

Well it's been quite a few months, so it's time for some assorted updating. As always, links included.

COMPLEX MAGAZINE / 10 Grossest Movies of All Time
"Fucking disturbed."

TOTALLY TOP 10 / Top 10 Horror of '09
"It’s morally and visually the most disturbing movie I think I have ever seen. "

HORROR VILLA / Top 10 Zombie Movies
"While not a traditional end of the world flesh eating saga, Deadgirl is more of an intimate look at the detachment of male teens and the objectification of the female body. More akin to River’s Edge than Night of the Living Dead."

Also, it was nice to see Eva Tushnet, a rather Conservative journalist who's written for the National Catholic Register and National Review, stick up for our little movie: "I defended Deadgirl for being about misogyny, and said it wasn't itself misogynistic. No women really have agency in the movie. And yet it still seemed to me to be a movie I could understand, enter into, relate to as a woman, because it never once presented the dead girl's violation as anything other than a horrific encroachment by human monsters. When she was simply touched, the camerawork and color control and acting made it clearly a desecration--if you're Catholic, a desecration of the temple of the Holy Spirit, this creature's body. In the end I didn't think Deadgirl, despite its advertising, presented rape as titillating or deserved or natural."

And while we're quoting:

"This shocking film builds organically, stacking on the tension scene after scene in a dark and frightening experience that will haunt you for days after watching." - CINCENTRAL

"This movie also projects a side of sexuality we are not commonly confronted with. A must-see film." - ODE TO HORROR

"To zombie movies what Unbreakable is to comic book films." - COOL SHITE

"It is the central message of the film which trumps all else. The casual acceptance by several otherwise 'normal' people of a warped situation in which they can forget all social boundaries and norms, regressing into a demi-monde of their own making. This is what packs the punch, and - although the film plays this out in an admittedly grotesque fashion - it's not quite as fantastical a phenomenon as we'd like to think. " - FLOWERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD

"I hated this movie. Most films that feature necrophilia are tongue-in-cheek. This one isn’t. My distaste for damn near everything in the film aside, I can’t help but admire the unique spin the obviously fucked-in-the-head filmmakers put on a common trope." - I LOVE HORROR

Did we just sell out?

We've been hearing from fans all over the country that Deadgirl is now available in Walmart stores. The unrated version, no less! It's pretty cool news and this awesome new video review says it all...

V-Day

Austin 360's list of Worst Date Movies Ever.

Turkey Day

According to Google Analytics, we've had 3 site visits from Turkey within the last fews weeks. So whether that means there's one, two, or three of you out there, this post's for you ...

Deadgirl has a couple of surprise midnight screenings this week at the Istanbul International Independent Film Festival. The first is tonight (2/12) and there's another next week (2/19). More info here.

Last Lists

It's 1/10/10, so these could be the actual final 2009 mentions.

JADED VIEWER / Top Ten Horror of 2009
"Deadgirl is like a depraved, warped up horror version of Stand by Me... when a movie like this comes along, you have to give it a standing O."

HOME MEDIA MAGAZINE / Top Ten Movies You May Have Missed
"Yes, this is eww-gross horror at its grossest, but it’s also a horror film that actually deals with its insane subject — a zombie woman tied in a basement who is sexually abused by adolescent boys — and the psychological dirt it digs up. And, despite the resurgence of quality horror in 2009 (Drag Me to Hell, Paranormal Activity, The House of the Dead), this is one of the few that took real chances."

DVD SPIN DOCTOR / Top DVDs of 2009
"In a mostly lame year for new horror films, "Deadgirl" returns us to the days when viewers could be equally repulsed and fascinated... Directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel belong on any horror fan's watch list."

FILM STALKER / Top Ten Horror of 2009
"If you can get past the nasty subject matter, it's really highly recommended; horror should make you feel uncomfortable and push boundaries."

HORROR DOSE / Top Ten DVD Releases of 2009
"Dark, chilling, intense... a good revisit to twisted, macabre roots of horror."

SHOOT FOR THE HEAD / Best Zombie Movies of 2009
"Dead Girl will turn your stomach but its strong writing and deep moral message will have you transfixed."

DAILY ATHENAEUM / Top Five Underrated Films
West Virginia University's student paper calls Deadgirl "The best independent horror film I’ve seen in years."

And ANCHOR BAY ENTERTAINMENT put together it's "Five Brutal Horror Scenes" of the year... but unlike the others on the list, included ALL of Deadgirl. "The whole movie."

Still closing out '09 ...

Seems a few people are frantically trying to clear their desks of the past year before moving on to '10...

ROUGH CUT REVIEWS / Top Five Movies of '09

EXAMINER.COM / Best DVD of the Year
At #1, Deadgirl "definitely takes the home-viewing horror cake!"

TRUST MOVIES / Year's Most Special
"This genre-jumper takes misogyny to new heights/depths -- and knows it -- forcing you to think, as well as wince."

EXPLOITATION NATION / Best of the Year
"Ugly, unpleasant, filthy, smart, sad, and at times really beautiful, this is what independent horror should be aspiring to. When most independent zombie films play for laughs, this plays for keeps."

and some other mentions ...

Posters of the Year
Best Films from Cats and Dogs
Exploding Heads Top Ten
Three "WTF" Movies of the '00s
Honorable Mention from Seattle Gay News
No Room In Hell's Decade of Horror