Tonight is the last of our three Stockholm screenings. We're anxious to here how they went so if you were there, let us know.

Ticket info here.

Deadgirl, a childrens' fantasy

Not sure what this site is, but if you come across it looking for information about Deadgirl, be warned; their synopsis is just a slight bit misleading: "Catweazle is a magician from the time of the Normans who is cast into the future by magic. With the help of two boys he uses magic in an attempt to return to his own time."

I am tearing up.

Head over to Deadgirl screenwriter Trent Haaga's blog (click here) for what he's calling – and he might be right – "Best. Deadgirl. Review. Ever."

This week's screenings

Cucalorus Film Festival, Friday, Midnight
Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Wilmington, NC
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Leeds International Film Festival, Saturday, Midnight
Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds, UK
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Lone Star International Film Festival, Saturday, Midnight
312 Houston Street, Fort Worth, TX
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Audacious!

The Hollywood Reporter begins by calling Deadgirl "an audacious, perverse shocker" and finishes with "this unsavory adolescent fantasy gone wrong proves difficult to dismiss."

Best part is it got picked up by Reuters, and then by a bunch of other sites – so here's the Yahoo link to the entire review.

Deadgirl is featured in this AFI Daily News article, which spotlights documentary aesthetics in feature films. Honestly, it seems like a little bit of a stretch to include us in the piece, but at the same time it's always nice to be included and Marc Lee is clearly a fan. He wanted to fit us in and it's great that he managed to.

Thanks

We just wanted to thank everyone who came out to our incredible AFI screenings. (And an extra little thanks to Quam and Chris over at Reserve Result for the polaroid of us and Deadgirl-star Noah Segan).

"Deadgirl will sometimes remind you of the best of Cronenberg. Cleverly written, stylishly directed and morbidly fascinating. It isn't your average cookie cutter horror film... Deadgirl gets it just right." - Film Threat

San Sebastian Sneak

There was another surprise one-night-only screening of Deadgirl the other night in San Sebastian, Spain. Again, thanks to Google translator...

From Cementerio de Historias:
" The last film of the day, and surprise of the night was Deadgirl. A film about teenagers who find a woman chained zombie in a madhouse, and decide to use abandoned as a sex slave... but "Deadgirl" is more than that, its development approach and the dramatic situation of living actors make the movie... Intense, dirty, dramatic and even funny, this film keeps the suspense at all times thanks to a very neat picture, an assembly and intelligent direction, and a soundtrack that portrays the grisly sadism perfection of situations.

From Semana de Terror:
"But the best of the night was undoubtedly the film surprise. DeadGirl is a discovery. Has much merit to keep the viewer's attention after so many hours of movies.

Death March

AFI kicked off last night with Deadgirl's stroll down the red carpet. See links below for a few shots of our beautiful cast. (Somehow, directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel seem to have been accidentally cropped out)

MSNBC, Yahoo, Zimbio

AFI Preview at AICN

"ALT_Cinema is the name of the programming section where some of the harder-to-define films are playing this year, and it doesn’t surprise me to see DEADGIRL scheduled there. I’ll have a full review for this one soon, but the short version is it’s RIVER’S EDGE with a disgusting supernatural twist ... [but] the film manages to be more stylish and emotionally affecting than its “too-sick-to-be-believed” reputation would indicate."

Win tickets to Deadgirl

Twitch is giving out a few tickets to next monday's AFI screening of Deadgirl. Click here to find out how to win.

Halloween surprise

Like slipping the proverbial razorblade in an apple, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival has just added Deadgirl as its surprise Halloween screening. It's playing at 10:15PM, this Friday, and you can buy tickets here.

We're very curious how the Florida crowd will react. Since we have our own Los Angeles premiere that very same night, please let us know how it goes if you happen to make it over.

Surprise in Sitges

"At the world’s leading festival for fantastic cinema... THE BEST SURPRISE: Deadgirl, which turns a River’s Edge-type scenario into a creepy adolescent freak-out. The miles-wide eyeballs of viewers exiting the theater, shaking their heads, testified to that fact." – Paste Magazine

Best Screenplay

Deadgirl news from Down Under: the movie picked up another award this week with Best Screenplay at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, presented by Grolsch beer (!). Pop one open and toast Trent Haaga.

Someone tell Hernan Migoya

Another review, straight outta Sitges, by way of Google Translate:

"Deadgirl is a wonderful example of how the big stories are recycled, as the symbols are mixed resulting in exciting experiments generics. In the field of popular culture, myths are expanding, fly too high or are impregnated mud, but we can never appreciate them in their original purity. Deadgirl begins as a novel by Jack Ketchum, continues as one of Stephen King, and ends like a fairy tale where there is a hero with a machete, a princess, a dragon, a villain, his lackey and the dungeon their host. And by the way mutates, tilts between horror and humor adolescent: from a love story näif the chronicle of a friendly that evaporates; of the class struggle in a high school in the Midwest to be an essay on objectification of the body, or even could be defined as the total demystification of an archetype of the genre, which is sodomized. Deadgirl wants to be many things, maybe too much, but goes flying colors because it is narrated with conviction, with a lot of bad milk and believing in what is counted... the result is brilliant ... someone tell Hernan Migoya." - Miradas de Cine

The audiences in Sitges seemed to really go for the film. While this has resulted in what seems like a lot of enthusiastic blogging, we don't read Catalan and have had to turn to online automatic translators...

...the stimulant, hypnotic, minimalist and certainly unhealthy (but directly sick) Deadgirl, Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel, a chilling psychopathological incursion into the most obnoxious ghosts associated with youth sex, gender difference and growth. A small jewel (sadistic necrophiliac that leaves most of the alleged scandalous tapes of the contest almost to the height of any Disney product).

and: "The directors achieve this mix of show death and sex from a completely original."

and also: "Deadgirl ventured into the deviations of torture with a teenage movie that endorses the wake of Saw and Hostel while maintaining a substantive inherited both chronic teenage John Hughes and the recent Juno...Extremely gore and deemed as one of horror films the most daring and clever we saw long Deadgirl squatter festivals and do not delay to redo about him."

Deadgirl will be making its West Coast / Los Angeles Premiere at the AFI Fest. Our screening times are:

Friday, October 31st at 7:15pm
Monday, November 3rd at 12:15pm
(Both screenings are at Arclight Hollywood)

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Trent talks some more

Deadgirl-screenwriter Trent Haaga once put a gun to Edward Furlong's head. More recently, he was interviewed by Twitch. You can read that interview by clicking here.