If you like twisted horror, Deadgirl is for you. There's really no way to discuss the plot without giving away the entire story, but it is a very interesting character piece as well as a disturbing zombie-ish horror. The two main characters seem harmless enough, and the plunge they take into showing their true colors as completely irredeemable psychopaths is riveting. The titular dead girl is so, so very creepy. The only aspect of this unique story that I found a bit tired was the old "loser boy loves popular girl who is supposedly nice even though she dates the biggest asshole in school." No sweet, popular girl who is dating the scumbag jock actually helps out the nerd that the jock is actively picking on and then continues to date him. Why not just make her a straight up bitch? Why try to pretend she's nice? The main character can still have a crush on a bitchy girl. It won't make a bit of difference, except that maybe we would feel a bit less sympathy for what happens to her in the end, but no one deserves that anyway so I think it would be fine. That cliche always bugs me so I was disappointed that they went that route on the love interest here. Other than that it was a pretty tight plot. I am almost hesitant to say we liked this movie because it's so gross and awful, but we really did. I kind of wish we had watched this first and then Jennifer's Body so as to cleanse the palate a bit, though. This was a rough one to go to bed after watching.
As a side note, about an hour into this, I admitted to Brandon that the main character reminded me so much of a young Joaquin Phoenix, and he yelled, "I KNOW!! He totally does!! But also... the other guy... young Andy Samberg?" TOTALLY!!! LOL! It was a nice light moment for us in an otherwise intensely dark movie.
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