Dark, dark film, tackling the taboo of necrophilia in a whole new way, using the zombie mythology as a warped means to make a statement on alienated youth and their yearning for something more. The film focuses on Rickie(Shiloh Fernandez), a teenager with absent parents(..his mother working two shifts, his father nowhere to be found, sometimes his only company is a pathetic drunk who is allowed to hang around the house because he's an old boyfriend of his mom's)and no friends, looked upon as a loser with no bright future. His only real pal is JT(Noah Segan), also a teenager without guidance, his only parental figure a sickly grandmother. They are cruising an old ramshackle asylum, trashing up the place even more than the way they found it, when Rickie and JT come across a naked female body covered in plastic and latched to a table. The right thing to do would be to leave the premises and contact the local authorities, but JT, as we soon discover, is a perverse, quite repulsive fellow who finally finds a means to release his sexual frustration and this power of control is all his. Rickie, rather impotent when it comes to playing the hero, allows JT to continue his depraved behavior, soon involving another teenager they smoke dope with, Wheeler(Eric Podnar), a hanger-on who joins in gladly on the sodomy of the helpless girl. Meanwhile, and this plot element is important, Rickie is enamored with JoAnn(Candice Accola), the school "it girl" who is girlfriend to the start football player, Johnny(Andrew DiPalma). He's head-over-heels and she finds him rather undesirable.
The film's central question is how long Rickie will allow his buddies' deviant activities to continue. He seems unable to "man up" in regards to taking control of the current situation, putting an end to these unpleasant shenanigans. The secret starts to spread, through an admission by an angered Wheeler, Johhny and his jock friend, Dwyer(Nolan Gerard Funk)force Rickie and him to reveal the dead girl. This sets off a chain of events that leads to the expected chaos that will ensue.
The movie parallels NEKromatik is many ways, particularly in the sexual assault of a dead body. JT doesn't necessarily take to the girl with love and adulation, but uses her for his own devises. He gets his gratification by hitting her and molesting her and it seems that she likes it. While the girl is a zombie, certain traits are different, her body doesn't quite deteriorate or rot like the normal undead we are accustomed to(..she starts to stink, and bullet holes ooze puss), she seems more "human", feral and primal(..more due to being trapped in some asylum room naked for however long the place had been shut down, and who knows what her symptoms were as a patient or what kind of experiments were conducted on her), but more alive than the typical Romero creature. Jenny Spain must be credited for spending most of the film naked and in uncompromising positions. Really disturbing subject matter, but the directors don't actually wallow in the details, though enough is established that we are able to recognize what is happening to the victim. The ending is appropriately off-putting but understandable considering Rickie's obvious obsession. Can be quite violent, but a lot is shot off-screen and handled through dialogue where we can still cringe even if we actually don't see an visceral act(..such as when a victim is getting deadgirl to blow him and she bites into his penis). Like the usual zombie, deadgirl's bite leads to death. Funniest scene would have to be when JT and Wheeler attempt to kidnap a girl so that they can have her bit, a new sex slave due to the facial beating Johnny gives the deadgirl when she harms him. If anything, the film's explores the response to being isolated as a derelict in society, a future prisoner in the making who finds his jollies in the pleasure and pain inflicted upon this girl who "no one knows about or even would care since's she just a deadgirl."
The film's central question is how long Rickie will allow his buddies' deviant activities to continue. He seems unable to "man up" in regards to taking control of the current situation, putting an end to these unpleasant shenanigans. The secret starts to spread, through an admission by an angered Wheeler, Johhny and his jock friend, Dwyer(Nolan Gerard Funk)force Rickie and him to reveal the dead girl. This sets off a chain of events that leads to the expected chaos that will ensue.
The movie parallels NEKromatik is many ways, particularly in the sexual assault of a dead body. JT doesn't necessarily take to the girl with love and adulation, but uses her for his own devises. He gets his gratification by hitting her and molesting her and it seems that she likes it. While the girl is a zombie, certain traits are different, her body doesn't quite deteriorate or rot like the normal undead we are accustomed to(..she starts to stink, and bullet holes ooze puss), she seems more "human", feral and primal(..more due to being trapped in some asylum room naked for however long the place had been shut down, and who knows what her symptoms were as a patient or what kind of experiments were conducted on her), but more alive than the typical Romero creature. Jenny Spain must be credited for spending most of the film naked and in uncompromising positions. Really disturbing subject matter, but the directors don't actually wallow in the details, though enough is established that we are able to recognize what is happening to the victim. The ending is appropriately off-putting but understandable considering Rickie's obvious obsession. Can be quite violent, but a lot is shot off-screen and handled through dialogue where we can still cringe even if we actually don't see an visceral act(..such as when a victim is getting deadgirl to blow him and she bites into his penis). Like the usual zombie, deadgirl's bite leads to death. Funniest scene would have to be when JT and Wheeler attempt to kidnap a girl so that they can have her bit, a new sex slave due to the facial beating Johnny gives the deadgirl when she harms him. If anything, the film's explores the response to being isolated as a derelict in society, a future prisoner in the making who finds his jollies in the pleasure and pain inflicted upon this girl who "no one knows about or even would care since's she just a deadgirl."