Director: Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Exploitation
Plot:
Deciding to blow off school, a pair of high-school students decide to investigate an abandoned mental asylum nearby and discover a naked woman strapped down to a table in the basement of the facility who doesn’t seem to die, allowing their most perverse desires and fantasies to come true leading them into darker realms.
Review:
This was an overall intriguing and somewhat troublesome genre effort. One of the film’s brighter aspects is the means through which brings about a serious ethical and moral quandary as a means to launch into a series of unbridled and unrestrained sleaze. The initial concept of the two guys arriving at the facility and deciding to explore it and finding the woman tied up which sets them off on the first thing they imagine which is to continually engage in illicit sexual relations with her. The way it decides to immediately jump the gun on this angle being the first thing they can think of in the situation of finding a beautiful naked woman who’s unable to move or get free is an immense character decision that reveals so much about the two of them who decide against freeing her and leaving her a secret sex pet of theirs, especially for the one who’s initiating it all and brings up the issue in the first place.
What that does, as a result, is imbue the film with any number of sexually-charged and somewhat disturbing sequences. What starts out as fondling or light caressing is soon pushed aside for full-on sexualized shenanigans that progressively get more extreme and deranged. As they’re already well aware of the fact that she can’t die and seems to be able to brush off activity that should normally kill her, that gives them the impetus to go forth with overt sexual violence and far more depraved actions that test the boundaries on genuine logic. The explicit nature of all this, with the stark nudity in full detail and the sexual acts kept to realistic but still brutal depictions, there’s a generally dark and depraved atmosphere here that still features all the normal exploitative bits including all of these aforementioned pieces featured throughout her, making for a lot to really like here.
Aside from all this, there are some issues present in this one. One of the main problems is the central lack of explanation for anything that’s going on. While it’s understandable that the backstory and history of the woman is never explored, the issue still begs the question of what she is and how she got down there in the first place considering it’s way too valuable to have been left behind like this. Considering what we know about her as a result of what happens over the course of the film, some do get answered but far too many remain after the finale so it has a somewhat lackluster story as a result. This becomes even more necessary as a way things escalate with the inability to manage any kind of proper reasoning for what’s going on and how the person is unable to die after everything they do to and with her as some of this really deserves an explanation so the lack of one is somewhat frustrating.
The other issue to be had with this one is the overall lackluster pace due to several underwhelming and unnecessary secondary storylines that move this one along. The main part involves his inability to grow up and stand up to bullies which is an important part of the film so it’s a bit of a pass due to it being an important character-building piece but it still doesn’t make for an exciting time watching him be a rather weak and underwhelming figure. The one that doesn’t get a pass is the underwhelming point about the romance involving the unattainable girl at school which is hard to understand and goes as expected the moment it starts playing out so the entire thing is a giant waste of time stretching out the running time far more than it needs to trying to placate a storyline that has no chance of going anywhere and ends up bland. These are what end up holding this one back.
Overview: ***.5/5
A dark and disturbing genre effort with some big issues, there’s enough to enjoy here with fans of this style of exploitation efforts even if some of the flaws here do bring this one down. Any and all fans of extreme cinema or are intrigued by this one will be the most likely to go for this one due to the content here which is what will surely keep this one away from the film for the most part.
DEADGIRL trailer from MPI Media Group on Vimeo.
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