Deadgirl

"You wanna see real scary though? You gotta get down to the tunnels."

The two main characters, your typical high-school stoners cutting class, are exploring an abandoned asylum, only to discover a macabre, yet zestful secret, hidden in those dark tunnels. A classic case of teenage dare suddenly turns into a story about right versus wrong, if it’s possible to have intercourse with a bullet wound, and whether or not it’s ok to kill someone to keep them forever.

Zombie, living dead, undead: the words are never actually pronounced, but the presence of the classic George A. Romero-styled flesheater lingers over Deadgirl like the stench of rotten meat over a battlefield. All the same, this is not a generic horror flick. The gore-obsessed freaks will get their share, that’s for sure. But it’s more your typical, adolescent coming-of-age movie, hotwired and crossed with a necrophiliac’s highest desire. Throw in a Marxist underdog perspective, "people like us are just cannon fodder", as self-proclaimed loser JT so insightfully puts it, and you have quite the bizarre tale.

Premiere Status
Nordic Premiere: Cast
Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen: Producer
Gadi Harel, Marcel Sarmiento: Script
Trent Haga: Cinematography
Harris Charalambous: Music
Joseph Bauer: Spoken language
English