"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."
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IKR. Gotta be worried if you're date's in the mood after this!
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