Film The Best Zombie and the Worst Zombie Movie
I went into this film knowing nothing about it beyond its stylish poster (a pair of luscious lips sideways, so as to resemble a vagina). Deadgirl is a horror movie about a couple of teenagers who discover a zombie chained up in the basement of an old psychiatric hospital. "Let's fuck her!" suggests one of them, and so he does. And gets some other guys in on it too. This opening and that quote demonstrates the entire problem with this movie.
However interesting its premise may seem, the characters are so implausibly horny, evil and vulgar, it is impossible to associate with them, the movie, or the message. It is unfortunate because it has, at its heart, an intriguing horror premise with a genuinely frightening zombie - a credit to both the make up team and the lead actress for creating such a hideous, painful, yet perversely attractive monster; emaciated, festering, jaundiced yellow, yet a once beautiful woman. That eerie creature is easily the best thing about the movie. Shame the director decided to instead focus on the "real horror"; sociopathic, juvenile delinquents.
Deadgirl wants to impart some satirical message about the desperation of guys on the bottom of the pecking order; about man's pathetic, yet dominating obsession with sex. But no one could be expected to take this seriously. This caricatured depiction of mankind is too absurd and gratuitous for that. With all the female characters getting brutalised or treated as property, and all the men depicted as sociopathic, testosterone junkies, this movie manages to be both misogynistic and misandric. It needn't have happened if the movie just gave us one character we could sympathise with. The only person I feel sorry for is the actress who played Deadgirl. Just think of all that talent wasted in this schlock. That's the real horror.
Film Symbols within Something Fucked Up
Deadgirl is about an immortal zombie woman that two teenage boys find in an abandoned hospital. one decides use her as a sex slave because she can't talk. he shares her with friends and keeps her chained up in the basement.
this whole idea is horrible and disgusting. what's freaky is when you start realizing all the metaphors. i'll start with Deadgirl herself: you see this creepy, undead thing. she either came from the hospital, or she was dumped there. but whoever left her in the basement took the care to chain her up. she could have been anyone. J.T. claims she's "beautiful, like something from a magazine" and decides that's a good excuse to take advantage. throughout the entire movie, she puts up with this. when she's finally free, she kills him and his friend. she is the abuse victim. the teenage boys are a little straightforward. Wheeler and J.T. abuse her and feel no remorse, Rickie is concerned about what's happening but he's unsure how to help her. there are plenty others, such as all the boys just being in different stages of abusing, but it's something you have to see for yourself to really understand it.
and isn't it ironic that in this horror movie the undead thing is the victim and all the teenagers are the monsters? i can honestly say i love this movie.