Two "wrong side of the tracks" teenagers are hanging out in the catacombs of an abandoned Mental Hospital when they happen upon what appears to be a dead girl tied down to a table and wrapped in plastic. I wont spoil much of what happens next, but safe to say that decisions are made and things are found out about what initially appears to be a corpse that leads to the backbone of the film.
The two leads are pretty damn awesome, Noah Segan as JT and Shiloh Fernandez as Rickie, and they both elevate the script. Anyhoo, JT, upon realizing the girl is not quite dead, decides he wants to have some fun with her. Rickie argues against it but gets sent away. We will find out later that the girl, although not dead, is not quite alive either.
From there the movie follows a couple of paths. JT's descent into madness as he spends more and more time with the girl, using her as a sex slave, and Rickie who wants to not have anything to do with what's happening, but having no way to un know what he knows. Rickies story is further diverged as the film explores the feelings he still has for his boyhood sweetheart and although it's a rather familiar story, the actor does great work with it.
Eventually all roads collide as more people are made aware of what's going on down in the catacombs and the secret gets harder and harder to keep, leading to a pretty sweet ending.
Much of the movie is rather pedestrian in dialog and build up, but as I said, the actors convey the emotions so well that they rise up over the lulls. The last 30 minutes of the film are it's strong point as the gore and comedy sort of come together before the morality tale reaches it's conclusion.
Not in any way your typical zombie movie, but a strong use of the genre nun the less, Deadgirl is a pretty damn good film. Think Pretty In Pink from a male point of view with 2 unrequited loves. One alive, the other a Deadgirl.
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