Have you seen Deadgirl?

yeah i have. i rented it on dvd ages ago - i read the synposis and was quite intruiged.

turns out to be reasonably good - it shouldn't be because it's very wrong in places :), but i quite liked it.
 
I was disappointed. The basic idea is intriguing, but it doesn't do much with it, and the protagonists are just stupid and evil.
The guy didn't know she was a zombie when he first decided to keep her chained up as a sex-slave. Later we see him trying to abduct two other women. So the zombie element was pretty irrelevant to him; he could as easily have abducted and kept and raped non-zombies.

The character of the zombie was intriguing, but was ultimately left unexplored.
 
Pretty much the most horrifying aspect of it is just how lame the whole production is. One vaguely interesting idea stretched beyond breaking point, largely by the inept execution of it all.

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Mark
 
Why not? At the point the first guy left the first time, she looked to me like a normal girl who'd been abducted, chained up and left for a period without food or water. She seemed alive but weak. Maybe a bit deranged too, and maybe she didn't speak English. I didn't see any sign of power.

It was as if they'd found the victim of a serial killer. The first guy wanted to set her free and get her to a hospital, which made sense. The second guy wanted to keep her and rape her. The second guy was evil, basically. And stupid - she obviously hadn't chained herself up, so at least one other person knew she was there, and was liable to return. Since she was still alive, she probably hadn't been more than a few days without being watered by someone.

Then the second guy discovers she is a zombie - basically by beating her to death and noticing she doesn't die. I think it's clear he'd have done the same had she not been a zombie, and she'd have just died. His later actions confirm this. Which, OK, it's a horror film and it neeRAB evil and stupid people. But it did undermine the premise of the film somewhat for me. Her being a zombie became almost irrelevant, until the final scene (which wasn't enough pay-off for me).
 
I never sawa that,she always looked not normal in the slightest to me. Her face was never normal. Maybe the audience camera angle was more ambiguous or whatever, i don't remember, but I don' t remember her ever being quite a normal girl which is why she was never that sympathetic to begin with. If she had been a normal girl the entire situation would have felt far differnet.
 
I'm sure the doubt about her being alive was because they had to force their way in as the door was rusted shut so hadn't been opened for a long time. Whether or not you can actually tell that from door rust I don't know as I'm not experiened in the opening of rusty old doors in abandoned mental institutions. ;)
 
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