Absolutely the worst movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Thought a while before watching this film as I am not a great lover of gratuitous gore. The subject matter is of course shocking but it shines a light on a very real phenomenon i.e. peer pressure amongst young men.Whilst I don't believe for a moment that so many lads would suffer from the colossal lack of empathy shown in this film it does play into the 'I dare you' mentality culture shared by adolescent males all around the world.Putting any sentiment or morality aside it's actually a well made movie albeit clearly on a tight budget. It's very insular, by that I mean what is going on outside the group involved (police investigations re missing people etc) is not even mentioned and in this instance nor should it be.The film is like a tidal pool of 'what ifs' left behind after the ocean of the unthinkable has receded.

I gave this the second chance it didn't deserve, listened to the commentary track thinking even if they didn't successfully justify the misogyny, if they at least addressed it, mentioned it even, I could give them some leeway, because the film's technically well-made, well-shot, well-directed, well-edited, the sound design's good, the acting's usually fine. In an attempt to be fair to the filmmakers, I'll try to quote them accurately. This is what we get:"When we finished the movie we were wondering if people were gonna say the movie's misogynistic or not. If you didn't get it, it'd be an easy thing to throw out at us. But it's not.""I mean I wrote the thing, and you know, I love women and I respect them, and I feel that this was more of an indictment of like this stupid drokking pumped-up sex idiocy of kids than anything. I mean ultimately Ricky objectifies Joanne the same way as JT does to the dead girl and it all ties in together. But some people just think we're getting off on the rape aspect of it.""The point is you're not really getting off on torture, you're using her as a sex object."So that's all right then. In my experience, the phrase "I love women" when used defensively is revealing in its generalisation.Earlier they say, "The truth is that when you're young, I think a lot of people can relate to not really thinking of consequences...or what's right or wrong, you just sort of react." Okay right yeah, I'm sure we can all remember being teenagers and thinking some drokking embarrassing stuff, and if Deadgirl was made by 14-year-olds it'd be fairly impressive. You'd want to make sure they all got some counselling and maybe spoke to some girls now and then, but still, fairly impressive. But these smugfunts don't sound 14 unless all their voices already broke. Just pathetic emotionally-immature little men who hate women and feel like boasting to the whole world about it like we're going to be impressed. As it is no self-respecting woman would drokk any of them with a ten-foot cattle prod, even if they were dead. Basically if you're a 14-year-old Peter Sutcliffe you'll love this film, but instead of watching it you should probably kill yourself.Being generous, there are two main female characters in this. The first, the dead "girl", isn't really a character, but an object. The filmmakers explicitly describe her as an animal rather than a person. She has copious hair on her pubis - "she would not be getting waxed" - but no armpit hair. The second female character is bound, killed and raped for the crime of turning down sexual advances from a male character. Without any obvious irony, they state "This movie is about female empowerment," because after a woman is hit in the head with a crowbar, she doesn't die.Sake, I mean...unless you're a religious nutter you've surely experienced a degree of existential angst, and can see the value of something provocative, and I completely relate to that. But there's so little substance to the provocation here it's not worth it.

"Dead Girl" begins thusly: Ricky and J.T., two teens from the wrong side of the tracks are killing time outside, and decide to have a few beers. It's a hot day, and apparently they live in a town without trees, because J.T. suggests they retire to the town's old, dilapidated mental asylum to for shade -- a strong case for carrying of the parasol if I've ever heard one! Once inside, they come across a door barricaded shut, force it open, and find a young woman gagged, and bound to a table. Naturally, they decide to use her as a rape-slave, but all is not as simple as it seems... I'll stop here. If this sounds like a movie you might want to watch, I don't want to spoil anything for you. If you're one of those preachy, repressed puritans that thinks "So the protagonists of this film are rapists? Not even some sort of deranged, Law and Order: S.V.U.-type rapists driven by some pathological compulsion (that could maybe at least be interesting), but just regular guys who find someone tied up, and think, 'What should I do? I KNOW - RAPE! This is my lucky day?' Casual rapists? Are there even casual rapists? I don't think if I'll be able to sympathize with the characters in this movie." Well then you're probably right. I felt the same way, and when paranormal forces started to make things dicey for the fellas, I couldn't be bothered to be interested whether they survived or not. They had it coming.I did give it a three stars, because it's not shot on videotape and the sound matches the picture.

I think a zombie movie should have more than one zombie in it. That's the whole crux of zombie movies - so many of them, so few of us, whatever shall we do? Deadgirl has one zombie, a young woman tied to a gurney who occasionally does zombie-like things (like obliterating a ferocious dog with only her bare teeth), but mostly she just passively lies there and gets raped (alot), sodomized, beaten, etc.But that's okay because we have this in-depth study of the teenage boy psyche to compensate for the total lack of zombie-ness. And here it is in a nutshell; whether he's a jock, a rebel, a nerd, a loser, or a stoner - the teenage boy is perfectly fine with sticking his penis in a zombie he's found tied up in a basement. It doesn't matter that she smells from festering bullet wounds, or that his friends have already dumped multiple loads in her and there's not a shower or garden hose to be found, or that... she's a zombie.Additionally, teenage boys have no moral compass. Teenage boys have minimal problem solving skills. Teenage boys lack the ability to articulate any thoughts more complex than "F_ck you, homo!" or whatever. Essentially, teenage boys have only slightly more brain activity than the zombies they're raping.Now, back to how much this movie sucks as a zombie movie. JT, the lead rapist, proves how deadgirl can't die by beating her, shooting her, etc. Near the end of the movie, however, he casually thrusts a machete into her skull. That should have killed her, but it doesn't.There's a clip showing how one of deadgirl's bullet wounds is oozing pus. She would have to be alive to generate pus.JT gets scratched by deadgirl, two jocks get bitten by deadgirl and none of them turn into zombies. A girl gets bitten and she does become a zombie. Why? So, the circle of deadgirl rape can continue, of course.The only high point of this movie was when a would be victim of two of the rapists soundly beats the crap out of them in a gas station parking lot.BOTTOM LINE: Basically, this movie is a misogynistic rape fantasy fest for emotionally stunted teenage boys and men.