Good movie but grossly overrated

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This is a really good movie. I watch a lots of horror movies. Reading the reviews for this one, I always skipped it in favor of the more adult related ones. Big mistake.Deadgirl is an awesome movie that keeps you glued to your seat. There was probably only once or twice during the entire movie that I thought about something other than the movie. That's how you know it's good!It's about a group of teenagers that discover a living dead girl in an abandoned insane asylum. She can't die, and they learn that if she bites you, you remain immortal too. The teens have sex with her before they discover this though. I don't know. You cannot properly explain this movie to portray how great it is.What enthuses me most is that the storyline is so basic and stupid. But watching it, it has no real deep philosophical analysis of life nor are the characters' lives anything but ordinary. And yet I couldn't stop watching. Can't explain it.Really really good stuff.7 Stars

Yup, it's another 'zombie film.' In a market saturated by the undead, is there really room for one more? Actually... in this case, yes.'Deadgirl' may – unsurprisingly – be about a dead girl (who, for all intents and purposes, is indeed a zombie), but it's not just another story about a plague of flesh-eating ghouls overrunning a small town, village, college, whatever. In fact, there's quite a lot left up to the viewers' imagination (plot-wise, not nudity-wise).Two high school guys hang out in the local (abandoned) mental hospital, only to find an area with an attractive woman tied up and, presumably, left to rot. She doesn't talk much. In fact, the only things that indicate she's alive is the fact that she moves a bit (and occasionally tries to take a bite out of you). Therefore, one of the guy's first instincts is to have sex with her. Yes, he's not that likable – we're not expected to root for him throughout the film's runtime! His friend has other ideas and sees the distaste in all of this, yet he does nothing to really stop this and, before long, guys are queuing up to have a go on 'Deadgirl.' We never find out who she is, why she's there who left her. It's not really about her. It's about the boys and the choices they make. Plus we have aspects of peer pressure and bullying, driving those victimised to extreme courses of action that they wouldn't normally take.I mentioned the nudity. The deadgirl is nude at all times, so be prepared for 'rape' to play a major part in this film. However, there's not an awful lot of violence and, much of what there is, happens off camera. It's not an action film by any standards. Don't expect a fast-paced thriller. It's character-driven. Sometimes you'll agree with some of them, other times you'll be crying out for retribution to befall them. Some people have criticised the film over the fact that it just so happens that five high school boys all are rapists, but you'll have to gloss over that fact to watch the film.Just because there isn't much action or gore, don't be lulled in thinking that this film isn't a horror movie. Its horror is in the situation and the human actions to an inhuman experience.

Bullying jocks v disaffected stoners in a high school, with an other-side-of-the-tracks love interest playing along.Dull, but the zombie concept could have brought out some interesting twists.The dialogue was weak and I didn't like any of the characters. The hero especially was an ineffectual whiner, and the ending showed him up as completely worthless. JT was good as a sociopath, but there was no background for him except his resentment at being scum of the earth.The writers struggled to create drama, so they tossed in an uninspired punch-up and kidnapping to move the plot along. With half an hour left it turned into a fairly good comedy, as it looked like JT was falling in love with the zombie, with a funny fight scene in a gas station. But that fizzled out and it went back to being serious. There wasn't even an attempt to explain the zombie - she arrived and left a complete mystery, which made the fate of her victims pointless.As for the sex ... well, the idea is unpleasant for various reasons, but there's nothing graphic.

While some people accuse this movie of being a vile rape fantasy by the filmmakers, I think this totally misses the point: the protagonists are actually the villains of the movie. If anything, this movie takes a rather sympathetic view of radical feminism, which purports that society (in the form of a patriarchy) oppresses women, primarily through objectification and, ultimately, rape.Each of the male characters in this movie objectifies women in a different way. Our two protagonists have been crapped on for their entire lives. J.T., the more aggressive and dominant one, is desperate to find some way to turn the tables so that he can finally be the oppressor for a change. Richie, a wishy-washy "nice guy" type, spends his days nursing his stalker crush on the girlfriend of the local asshole jock, who, of course, treats his girlfriend like property.When these guys (and a couple others) discover a helpless, immortal woman (strongly implied to be a zombie) in an abandoned asylum, they realize that they can indulge every anti-social fantasy that they've ever had, no matter how violent or sexual. The movie deals with deeply misogynist subject matter, but the movie itself is not misogynist. Rather, it reverses the traditional roles in a horror movie. What would traditionally be the monster is instead victimized repeatedly by the "heroes". This leads to an admittedly somewhat clichéd theme: which is the true monster? Recommending this movie can be a bit tricky because of the controversial, disturbing subject matter, the lack of likable characters, and the deeply cynical take on society (and teenage boys in particular). If none of this bothers you, and you're familiar with the Troma-inspired approach to filmmaking (fast, cheap, and amateurish), then I'd suggest you give it a try. It's not for everyone, and there are perfectly legitimate reasons to dislike it, but I think many people are seriously misinterpreting the themes.