More Recent Deadgirl Reviews

"The thing's pretty much fucking brilliant."

– Ain't It Cool News

"One of the smartest teen horrors I've watched in some time...Two new faces at Toronto who show more artistic verve and bravery than many of the festival's masters are co-directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel, the filmmakers behind the clever, scary, unsettlingly sexual teenage bondage thriller..."

– IndieWIRE

"Deadgirl will remind you of the best of Cronenberg. Cleverly written, stylishly directed and morbidly fascinating. It isn't your average cookie-cutter horror film."
- Film Threat

"An audacious, perverse shocker... this adolescent fantasy gone wrong proves difficult to dismiss."
- Hollywood Reporter

"An immediate indie classic and one of the best teen horror thrillers in years."

– BloodyDisgusting

"Floats smoothly between dark comedy and horror, and the result is a coming-of-age film like you've never seen before."

– SlashFilm

"Skirts the edge without going over, and judging from the raucous reception, twisted auds clearly do exist for such blatantly 'wrong' material."

– Variety

"The bastard child of John Hughes and David Cronenberg!"

– Colin Geddes, Toronto Film Festival

"Deadgirl will sometimes remind you of the best of Cronenberg. Cleverly written, stylishly directed and morbidly fascinating. It isn't your average cookie cutter horror film... Deadgirl gets it just right." - Film Threat

"A teen-angst-and-terror opus."

– Fangoria

"The horror genre is in need of vastly original ideas like this."

– FirstShowing

"Legitimately frightening and surprisingly funny."

– Metro Canada

"Doesn't ever fall to exploitation or even chastisement of the 'protagonists,' but rather affords the viewer an intriguing examination of character, virtue, karma, and some really cool plot twists along the way."

– The Culture Pin