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2008 · horror · thriller · music · coming-of-age

Deadgirl

Directed by Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel1h 41m2008
ElsewhereIMDb5.520kRT33%Metacritic36
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • bleak
  • cold
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, extreme horror / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When high school misfits Rickie and JT decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a body of a woman stripped naked, chained to a table and covered in plastic and soon realize she is anything but dead. Quickly the boys find themselves embarking on a twisted yet poignant journey testing the limits of their friendship, and forces both to decide just how far they're willing to stretch their understanding of right and wrong.

Our read · Deadgirl (2008) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal horror · thriller · music entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want transgressive teen horror examining how far boys rationalize monstrous choices.

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Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditysexual violencegraphic violencegore

Skip it tonightSkip if necrophilia horror, nudity, and sexual violence will leave you sick.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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