deadgirl: Still closing out '09 ...

Sunday, January 3, 2010

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

1 comment:

the jaded viewer said...: Wanted to mention you guys made my top 10 horror movies of 2009 at #3!!!

Congrats!!!; January 7, 2010 at 10:50 AM

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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