Dead Girl - Horror Spot DVD Review

Dead Girl - Horror Spot DVD Review

By Jose

Plot:

Two high school boys discover an imprisoned woman in an abandoned mental asylum who cannot die.

Cast:

Shiloh Fernandez (Rickie), Noah Segan (JT), Candice Accola (Joann), Eric Podnar (Wheeler), Jenny Spain (Dead Girl), Andrew DiPalma (Johnny), Nolan Gerard Funk (Dwyer)

Review:

Two young intrepid explorers find their way into an abandoned mental hospital. While exploring the place they come across the body of a young girl in restraints naked on a bed. What do you think they are going to do? If you think they are going to call 911 and report it to the police so an investigation can happen, you thought wrong. This is one of the more disturbing morality plays that you can see in a movie. The morality tale here is what do you do with a naked dead girl in restraints?


So these two boys do many things, from beating the girl, to shooting the girl, to raping the girl, and yet the girl cannot die. This is what makes it disturbing, rather than calling the authorities, the girl becomes a play thing, something to be used, abused, and tortured. The movie explores the base level of humanity, the humanity that creates torture, demonizes people, and otherwise reduces human life to less than something to be cherished and protected. The interesting part of all this is not the inhumanity, but what happens when Ricky and JT get infected by whatever is keeping the dead girl alive. We get to see zombies, with overtones of vampirism and being infected by the dead girl comes to mind.


We also get to see JT’s girlfriend get killed and get turned into the next dead girl sex slave, along with a lot of other dead girl issues throughout the entire movie. We also get a brutal if not uncommon high school bullying scene that if you ever went to high school you either saw or participated in depending on where you ended up in the high school food chain.


Overall depending on where you are from and what your particular needs are in a horror movie, this one has a little bit of everything. Power, control, rape, murder, bullying, beating, strangulation, and a ton of other standard horror movie bits and pieces that truly work here. While jumping from the basement of the abandoned mental hospital back to scenes in the school makes the movie feel disjointed and random, the effect works here. You can see the characters struggle and then not struggle with the morality of finding a naked woman zombie in a basement in four point restraints. That is what keeps the movie interesting, and finding out that at times we will degenerate to our baser instincts will make some people cringe.


Final Thoughts:

The gore was superb, the horror was of the queasy, "I can't believe I'm watching this" kind, and all of the technical bits were perfect. Movies like this don't get made by the mainstream, commercial studios. It's movies like this that make me well and truly believe that the indie market will be the savior of horror films in general.

The moral conflict, coupled with great acting and great scripting, make this a must see for true fans of the genre. But at the same time this is not for everyone.

Ratings: 3 out of 5