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