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Posted on July 06th, 2009 in Hollywood Movies

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Dead Girl (2009) Movie Details: DVD, Theatre Date, News, Trailers & More Dead Girl Movie Review
8 out of 10 Skulls
Written by: Meh
Release Date: July 24, 2009 (limited)
Studio: Dark Sky Films

I don’t know if I am just a weirdo but the weirder the movies get the more I find them entrancing. Dead Girl is genre bending, weird, gruesome and one of the most interesting films I have seen in years. Once again we must turn away from Hollywood if we want to see something really unique that will mess with your head and leave you feeling really really wrong inside.

Much like Martyrs as violent and perverted as this movie can be at times, it is done within the context of a larger story which is what makes it compelling and even moving. This review is going to be VERY vague on plot because you really need to see this movie and experience it untainted but here is the basic spoiler-free gist;

When high school misfits Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) and JT (Noah Segan) decide to cut school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a woman whose body has been stripped naked, chained to a table and covered in plastic.

When both react to the situation in extremely different ways, the boys soon find themselves embarking on a twisted yet poignant journey that forces them to decide just how far they’re willing to stretch their understanding of right and wrong.

I really do not want to say anything about what happens in this movie outside of what I already have. The movie is Jack Ketchums The Girl Next Door times one hundred. It has about the same production values and much like Jack Ketchums The Girl Next door it will stay with you for a long time.

It starts out as a gruesome discovery, becomesa very perverted affair and quickly turns into a terrifying blood bath and a moral dilemma all in one. Thought provoking, disturbing and easily one of the best horror movies to come off the indie scene in a VERY long time. Driven by great characters, an interesting tale and some perverted and gruesome moments Dead Girl is easily one of the more disturbing movies I have ever seen.

This movie is not for the faint of heart and I strongly suggest if you do not have a strong stomach when it comes to sexual perversions you will want to avoid this movie. I am not myself a sexual deviant don’t get me wrong but I can set myself back from the film and appreciate the art of the movie without being overwhelmed by the gruesome and sadistic content. If you cant do that best avoid this one. Although not as graphic as Martyrs its definitely on par with Jack Ketchums Girl Next door as noted, and easily as perverted.

If you can get past the intense and perverted subject matter this is easily one of the most unique and original horror movies made in years. Kudos to the filmmakers for trying hard to not just entertain me but scar me for life!

With her debut feature Blue Car, Karen Moncrieff zeroed in on a troubled adolescent girl and a relationship with her favorite teacher; the film had the focus of a short story (a mixed blessing for a feature film). In The Dead Girl, her scope widens but that sharpness remains. The girl of the title is found in a field, and Moncrieff spends time with four women affected by her death: Arden (Toni Collette), who finds the body; the morgue attendant/student (Rose Byrne) who receives it next; Ruth (Mary Beth Hurt), the wife of a man who may know more about the death than he lets on; and a mother (Marcia Gay Harden) in town to identify a body.

Following these sideline characters, the screenplay circles the girl herself, a prostitute played by Brittany Murphy in a final, haunting segment. This structure eschews typical ensemble payoffs — only a few of the characters intersect and they sure as hell don’t learn valuable lessons from each other — for its own subtle rewards. These narrative threads, never running over 20 minutes, are as close to short fiction as Blue Car, but the new film also has the unity of a fine, slim story collection.

In one of the shortest and most affecting segments, we catch a glimpse into the life of the morgue attendant (Byrne) whose sister is missing and presumed alive — at least by her parents, specifically her eternally hopeful mother (Mary Steenburgen) — for many years. When the dead girl turns up, Byrne finds herself tantalized by the idea that it might be her sister — and that this sad chapter in her life may be forced to end. A mealtime confrontation between Byrne and Steenburgen will break your heart from two different directions.

The film is full of strong, brief performances by actors who, like Byrne, you may not have thought much about in who knows how many other movies. (Toni Collete and Giovanni Ribisi are exceptions in their segment together, not because they aren’t effective, but because they’re both as they always are: Collette excellent and Ribisi playing a hillbilly man-child.) Even the usually mannered Marcia Gay Harden reins it in as a sheltered, shell-shocked mother, breathing new life into what used to be a cartoonish specialty for her.

Despite working small wonders with her large cast, Moncrieff remains a better writer than director: A surprising percentage of The Dead Girl is shot in close-up, with a droning score piped in with unnecessary frequency. The resulting claustrophobia may be fitting, but the tight quarters also make the movie feel oppressive, at odds with its own observant reflection, even more so than the fact that the non-dead leads are so united in meekness.

But while a little breathing room would’ve been appreciated, it’s hard to quibble with how well Moncrieff the director preserves the stark sadness of Moncrieff the writer — that is, so carefully that the faces of The Dead Girl, and their ways of reacting to utter awfulness, are preserved in your memory for days afterward.

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