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."
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"The thing's pretty much fucking brilliant."
"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
– 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
- 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
"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
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