Dead Girl
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>>12 SERIES ISSUE #08 AUGUST ‘12
Queenie’s out there, I just know it.
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p.1 Plot p.4 The Cast p.5 Trivia p.9 Review
Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) and J.T. (Noah Segan) are two high school seniors who gaze at the girls they wish they could get, especially JoAnn, the object of Rickie’s affection, whom he has known since he was a child. One day, they decide to cut class and end up in an abandoned insane asylum. They discover a mute, naked woman in the basement, chained to a table. While J.T. is interested in raping her, Rickie refuses and leaves. J.T. confronts Rickie the next day, and the two return to the basement where J.T. reveals that the woman is undead, which he discovered after fruitlessly attempting to kill her three times. Rickie finds that J.T. invited their friend Wheeler to rape the woman, nicknamed Deadgirl, as well, and decides that it is time to free her. He is able to cut the chain on one hand free before he hears J.T. and Wheeler approaching. He runs to hide, and J.T. begins to rape the woman. After he notices that her hand is free, the woman attacks him and scratches his face. During gym class one day, Rickie asks JoAnn out on a date, knowing she has a boyfriend. She rejects him, and that afternoon, JoAnn’s boyfriend Johnny and Johnny’s friend Dwyer beat up Rickie and Wheeler. Wheeler rebuts that they “have their own pussy now”, and don’t need to hit on JoAnn. Johnny throws Rickie and Wheeler in his trunk, and he and Dwyer drive to the asylum to see Deadgirl. Rickie convinces Johnny to force Deadgirl to perform oral sex on him, and Deadgirl instead bites Johnny’s penis, infecting him. The next day, Johnny races to the bathroom during class and his intestines burst out of his body, leaving him in the same undead state as Deadgirl. Having figured out that this is an infectious disease, J.T. and Wheeler decide it is time to make a new Deadgirl with a fresh body. They wait outside a gas station, where JoAnn shows up to confront them about Johnny. J.T. and Wheeler capture her and take her to the basement. Rickie heads to the basement with a machete to free Deadgirl, and finds JoAnn and Deadgirl tied up to each other, being circled by J.T. and Wheeler. As J.T. tries to convince Rickie to let JoAnn be bitten, Wheeler feels up JoAnn. Rickie defends her by slicing Wheeler’s hand off with the weapon. Deadgirl is freed by JoAnn and feasts on Wheeler, then J.T. Rickie and JoAnn escape through one door but cannot find another one to get through. Rickie runs off to find an escape route, and when he returns, JoAnn is not where he left her. Rickie returns to the basement and finds Deadgirl, about to attack him. She runs into him, knocks him down, then breaks open the door and escapes. Rickie then sees JoAnn, who is about to collapse. He catches JoAnn just as she falls, then sees that J.T. has stabbed her in the back. J.T. urges Rickie to let him bite her as she will then be immortal. Rickie holds her for a moment, assuring her that he loves her and will save her. She tells him, “Fucking grow up,” and coughs blood into his face. The film then cuts to Rickie walking towards the asylum. There, a zombie JoAnn is lying tied to a bed in clean lingerie.
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SHIlOH FeRNANDez AS RICkIe NOAH SeGAN AS J.T. MICHAel BOWeN AS ClINT CANDICe ACCOlA AS JOANN ANDReW DIPAlMA AS JOHNNy eRIC PODNAR AS WHeeleR NOlAN GeRARD FUNk AS DWyeR CHRISTINA BlevINS AS AMANDA kelle CANTWell AS BRITT SHUSHIG DeRSTePANIAN AS elIzABeTH DAvID AlAN GRAF AS MR. HARRISON DUSTIN HeSS AS WAlTeR SUSAN MARIe kelleR AS NIkkI CHRISTINA MASTeRSON AS ROSIe JeNNy SPAIN AS DeADGIRl
The Cast
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In the scene where Jo hnny & Dwyer see the body, the three scratc orientation, the side hes on JT’s face chan of his face that they ge length, are on. After Rickie gets hit by JT, the split on his low er lip keeps erratically placement for the re changing shape, cons st of the movie. istency and When we see Wheeler raping the Deadgirl, he finishes up and be Ricky are talking (se gins pulling up his pa en in the background nts while JT and ). When the camera Ricky, he is still in the comes back to Wheeler process and finishes after being on JT and shortly after that.
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Trivia
Discovered stark naked and strapped to a morgue table
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Discovered stark naked and strapped to a morgue table
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Once pesky moral constraints have been talked away, a succession of banal, camera-onthrusting-butts rape scenes commence Ryan Stewart
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Discovered stark naked and strapped to a morgue table in a remote corner of an abandoned mental hospital like some discarded Frankenstein experiment, the titular character of Deadgirl defies easy categorization: she doesn’t breathe, yet she’s free of visible decomposition or discoloration; she affects the eye-flutter and throaty growl of a zombie, yet remains docile when she’s happened upon by a pair of randomly loitering high-school degenerates. The dipshit vladimir and estragon of this go-nowhere, existentialist horror-drama, J.T. (Noah Segan) and Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) find themselves intellectually and morally unequipped to contend with the mysterious nature of this “woman,” thanklessly played by newcomer Jenny Spain, and instead become increasingly transfixed by her gorgeous, readily available body, which is invested with only as much humanity as they’re able to impart to it (i.e. not that much). “She’s our monster” is the formulation J.T. eventually comes up with to simultaneously assert the duo’s ownership over the girl and to effectively dehumanize her, a process that’s solidified with the bestowal of the existence-denying name, “Deadgirl.” Once pesky moral constraints have been talked away, a succession of banal, cameraon-thrusting-butts rape scenes commence, with poor Deadgirl helpless to resist in any way other than the occasional snarl of protest. These violations are halting at first, then the frequency escalates once J.T. deigns to bring in other friends for a piece of the action, such as witless Wheeler (eric Posnard), while strangely restyling himself as a smarmy, cornpone pimp
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with a Christian Slater-esque sneer. The escalating madness soon begins to wear on sensitive, sad-eyed Rickie. His erotic dreams, frequently visualized for us, focus on hottie classmate Joanne (Candice Accola), cueing us that he’s a closet norm who’s not down with all this perversion, while J.T.’s dreams go thankfully unexplored, considering they’d probably focus on Deadgirl, on whom he increasingly dotes, even gingerly applying makeup to her face in one creepy moment. The film’s rather abrupt third-act escalation into a z-grade monster movie, complete with copious amounts of running, screaming, and bloodletting, suggests that this ultra low-budget project was originally sold to its investors as something more consistently bland and predictable, perhaps for the direct-to-DvD horror market. If so, directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel at least had the fortitude to pursue a more audacious, if still half-baked, agenda than was required of them, and were able to put a couple of arresting visuals on the screen, though they amount to very little. The appeal of Deadgirl depends exclusively on the intriguing image at its center: a nude, softly writhing girl on a slab, who quietly growls like a wounded animal and struggles faintly against her restraints as if acting out the movements in a dream. The more we learn about what’s behind that image, the less power it has.
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12 series Issue eight
Dead girl
Queenie’s out there, I just know it.
Dead girl
8
Contents
p.1 Plot p.4 The Cast p.5 Trivia p.9 Review
Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) and J.T. (Noah Segan) are two high school seniors who gaze at the girls they wish they could get, especially JoAnn, the object of Rickie’s affection, whom he has known since he was a child. One day, they decide to cut class and end up in an abandoned insane asylum. They discover a mute, naked woman in the basement, chained to a table. While J.T. is interested in raping her, Rickie refuses and leaves. J.T. confronts Rickie the next day, and the two return to the basement where J.T. reveals that the woman is undead, which he discovered after fruitlessly attempting to kill her three times. Rickie finds that J.T. invited their friend Wheeler to rape the woman, nicknamed Deadgirl, as well, and decides that it is time to free her. He is able to cut the chain on one hand free before he hears J.T. and Wheeler approaching. He runs to hide, and J.T. begins to rape the woman. After he notices that her hand is free, the woman attacks him and scratches his face. During gym class one day, Rickie asks JoAnn out on a date, knowing she has a boyfriend. She rejects him, and that afternoon, JoAnn’s boyfriend Johnny and Johnny’s friend Dwyer beat up Rickie and Wheeler. Wheeler rebuts that they “have their own pussy now”, and don’t need to hit on JoAnn. Johnny throws Rickie and Wheeler in his trunk, and he and Dwyer drive to the asylum to see Deadgirl. Rickie convinces Johnny to force Deadgirl to perform oral sex on him, and Deadgirl instead bites Johnny’s penis, infecting him. The next day, Johnny races to the bathroom during class and his intestines burst out of his body, leaving him in the same undead state as Deadgirl. Having figured out that this is an infectious disease, J.T. and Wheeler decide it is time to make a new Deadgirl with a fresh body. They wait outside a gas station, where JoAnn shows up to confront them about Johnny. J.T. and Wheeler capture her and take her to the basement. Rickie heads to the basement with a machete to free Deadgirl, and finds JoAnn and Deadgirl tied up to each other, being circled by J.T. and Wheeler. As J.T. tries to convince Rickie to let JoAnn be bitten, Wheeler feels up JoAnn. Rickie defends her by slicing Wheeler’s hand off with the weapon. Deadgirl is freed by JoAnn and feasts on Wheeler, then J.T. Rickie and JoAnn escape through one door but cannot find another one to get through. Rickie runs off to find an escape route, and when he returns, JoAnn is not where he left her. Rickie returns to the basement and finds Deadgirl, about to attack him. She runs into him, knocks him down, then breaks open the door and escapes. Rickie then sees JoAnn, who is about to collapse. He catches JoAnn just as she falls, then sees that J.T. has stabbed her in the back. J.T. urges Rickie to let him bite her as she will then be immortal. Rickie holds her for a moment, assuring her that he loves her and will save her. She tells him, “Fucking grow up,” and coughs blood into his face. The film then cuts to Rickie walking towards the asylum. There, a zombie JoAnn is lying tied to a bed in clean lingerie.
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Plot
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SHIlOH FeRNANDez AS RICkIe NOAH SeGAN AS J.T. MICHAel BOWeN AS ClINT CANDICe ACCOlA AS JOANN ANDReW DIPAlMA AS JOHNNy eRIC PODNAR AS WHeeleR NOlAN GeRARD FUNk AS DWyeR CHRISTINA BlevINS AS AMANDA kelle CANTWell AS BRITT SHUSHIG DeRSTePANIAN AS elIzABeTH DAvID AlAN GRAF AS MR. HARRISON DUSTIN HeSS AS WAlTeR SUSAN MARIe kelleR AS NIkkI CHRISTINA MASTeRSON AS ROSIe JeNNy SPAIN AS DeADGIRl
The Cast
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In the scene where Jo hnny & Dwyer see the body, the three scratc orientation, the side hes on JT’s face chan of his face that they ge length, are on. After Rickie gets hit by JT, the split on his low er lip keeps erratically placement for the re changing shape, cons st of the movie. istency and When we see Wheeler raping the Deadgirl, he finishes up and be Ricky are talking (se gins pulling up his pa en in the background nts while JT and ). When the camera Ricky, he is still in the comes back to Wheeler process and finishes after being on JT and shortly after that.
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Trivia
Discovered stark naked and strapped to a morgue table
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Discovered stark naked and strapped to a morgue table
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Once pesky moral constraints have been talked away, a succession of banal, camera-onthrusting-butts rape scenes commence Ryan Stewart
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Discovered stark naked and strapped to a morgue table in a remote corner of an abandoned mental hospital like some discarded Frankenstein experiment, the titular character of Deadgirl defies easy categorization: she doesn’t breathe, yet she’s free of visible decomposition or discoloration; she affects the eye-flutter and throaty growl of a zombie, yet remains docile when she’s happened upon by a pair of randomly loitering high-school degenerates. The dipshit vladimir and estragon of this go-nowhere, existentialist horror-drama, J.T. (Noah Segan) and Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) find themselves intellectually and morally unequipped to contend with the mysterious nature of this “woman,” thanklessly played by newcomer Jenny Spain, and instead become increasingly transfixed by her gorgeous, readily available body, which is invested with only as much humanity as they’re able to impart to it (i.e. not that much). “She’s our monster” is the formulation J.T. eventually comes up with to simultaneously assert the duo’s ownership over the girl and to effectively dehumanize her, a process that’s solidified with the bestowal of the existence-denying name, “Deadgirl.” Once pesky moral constraints have been talked away, a succession of banal, cameraon-thrusting-butts rape scenes commence, with poor Deadgirl helpless to resist in any way other than the occasional snarl of protest. These violations are halting at first, then the frequency escalates once J.T. deigns to bring in other friends for a piece of the action, such as witless Wheeler (eric Posnard), while strangely restyling himself as a smarmy, cornpone pimp
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with a Christian Slater-esque sneer. The escalating madness soon begins to wear on sensitive, sad-eyed Rickie. His erotic dreams, frequently visualized for us, focus on hottie classmate Joanne (Candice Accola), cueing us that he’s a closet norm who’s not down with all this perversion, while J.T.’s dreams go thankfully unexplored, considering they’d probably focus on Deadgirl, on whom he increasingly dotes, even gingerly applying makeup to her face in one creepy moment. The film’s rather abrupt third-act escalation into a z-grade monster movie, complete with copious amounts of running, screaming, and bloodletting, suggests that this ultra low-budget project was originally sold to its investors as something more consistently bland and predictable, perhaps for the direct-to-DvD horror market. If so, directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel at least had the fortitude to pursue a more audacious, if still half-baked, agenda than was required of them, and were able to put a couple of arresting visuals on the screen, though they amount to very little. The appeal of Deadgirl depends exclusively on the intriguing image at its center: a nude, softly writhing girl on a slab, who quietly growls like a wounded animal and struggles faintly against her restraints as if acting out the movements in a dream. The more we learn about what’s behind that image, the less power it has.
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Dead girl
