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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL 2008
AFI2008 FEST
“Deadgirl will remind you of the best of Cronenberg.
“The thing’s pretty much fucking
Cleverly written, stylishly directed and morbidly fascinating. ”
- AINT-IT-COOL-NEWS
brilliant.”
SITGES
FILM FESTIVAL 2008
“One of the
smartest teen horrors I’ve watched in some time.” - INDIEWIRE
- FILM THREAT
Every generation has its story about the horror of growing up.
“An audacious, perverse shocker.
This adolescent fantasy-gone-wrong proves difficult to dismiss.” - Reuters / Hollywood Reporter
synopsis Daringly original and genre-busting, DEADGIRL is an odyssey into the soul of our alienated youth. But by injecting universal teen moral moorings into something fantastical and terrifying, the film takes the conventions of the horror and coming-of-age movies and turns them on their heads. When high school misfits Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) and JT (Noah Segan) decide to cut school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a woman whose body has been stripped naked, chained to a table and covered in plastic. When both react to the situation in extremely different ways, the boys soon find themselves embarking on a twisted yet poignant journey that forces them to decide just how far they’re willing to stretch their understanding of right and wrong. A no-holds-barred look at the horror of growing up, DEADGIRL stars Shiloh Fernandez (Red), Noah Segan (Brick), Michael Bowen (Kill Bill, Jackie Brown), and Candice Accola (Juno).
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“Legitimately frightening and surprisingly funny.” –Metro Canada
“NOT SINCE ‘SESSION 9’ HAS AN ABANDONED ASYLUM BEEN USED TO SUCH UNSETTLING EFFECT.” –VARIETY
“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 Deadgirl.” - IndieWIRE
the filmmakers Marcel Sarmiento & Gadi Harel, Producers/Directors Marcel Sarmiento was a participant in the new director’s program at Twentieth Century Fox’s Searchlab, His films include Heavy Petting (‘07), starring Malin Akerman, and Deadgirl (‘08). Gadi Harel spent his early career as an apprentice to a private eye and reporting for The New York Observer. His films include the post-modern noir Nights Like These (‘03) and Deadgirl (‘08). In 2006, Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel created Hollywoodmade, a Los Angeles-based production company for motion picture production and a wide variety of other creative pursuits. In 2008, Bloomsbury published The Modern Con Man, a tongue-in-cheek lifestyle guide that they co-wrote. Deadgirl is Hollywoodmade’s first feature film. Recenrtly, they signed a deal to write and direct their follow up for Gold Circle Films. It will be a remake of the Danish thriller, Morke. Trent Hagaa, Writer Trent Haaga has been involved in over 40 feature films as an actor, screenwriter, and producer. He is the co-author of the instructional/humor book Make Your Own Damn Movie, available from St. Martin’s Press. Deadgirl is his fifth produced screenplay.
the cast
Shiloh Fernandez (Rickie)
Noah Segan (JT)
Shiloh appeared in Gardens of The Night alongside John Malkovich, Jeremy Sisto and Harold Perrineau, and From Within (After Dark/Lions Gate). Shiloh also played the role of Pete Doust in the feature film Red, opposite Brian Cox. Most recently, Shiloh appeared in Cadillac Records for Sony / BMG, a period piece dealing with the rise and fall of the influential R&B label Chess Records. He plays the role of Phil Chess opposite Adrian Brody, Beyonce Knowles, Jeffrey Wright and Gabrielle Union.
Noah starred opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the Sundance-winning film Brick and Fox’s The Visitation. He re-teamed with Brick director Rian Johnson for a cameo in The Brothers Bloom, opposite Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weiss and Rinko Kikuchi. He can be seen in What We Do Is Secret with Shane West and Bijou Philips, a biopic about the seminal, legendary punk band The Germs. Noah also stars in Lionsgate Entertainment’s Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, and opposite Nikki Reed in Chain Letter, from the makers of the Saw franchise.
Candice Accola (Joann)
Michael Bowen (Clint)
In addition to Deadgirl, Candice has completed the independent feature On the Doll with Brittany Snow, and was featured in Juno, opposite Ellen Page. She also appears in Hannah Montana: The Movie.
Michael Bowen has been acting in television and feature films for many years, including guest spots on “ER,” “NYPD Blue,” “The X-Files,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” and “Lost.” Some of his feature film work includes roles in Jackie Brown, Magnolia, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Walking Tall, After the Sunset, and Bobby.
directors’ statement “We were interested in making a film that explored the pain of being young and the confusion of growing up, but in a way that felt altogether new. What excited us about Trent Haaga's script was the way it told a story that felt familiar at first, but then took a dramatic and terrifying turn into a direction no one could possibly anticipate. It touched upon typical teen fears – intimacy, abandonment, uncertainty – and spun from realism to the surreal, and then back again. We felt the very nature of the script embodied what it was like to be a teenager – uncompromising and rebellious, while at the same time maintaining an earnestness, even in the most desperate of circumstances. That emotion, as well as some pretty dark humor, was important to keep us connected to the characters, even when their actions turnedhorrifying or uncomfortable. There's a point in life when many see for themselves a disappointing future that differs greatly from the one they always expected. It can be a painful moment – what we see as the “horror of growing up”– and as filmmakers, we were excited to explore the theme through such an uncompromising, unique, and hopefully unforgettable story.” MARCEL SARMIENTO GADI HAREL
additional praise “I have never seen a film that so absolutely captured the sheer horror of peer pressure, of wanting to be accepted, of finally finding your own little piece of the world and what you’d do to protect it. Conceptually, this thing is playing with the kind of material that Carpenter, Romero and Craven were all playing around with early in their careers.
It is a film with something to say.” – Aint It Cool News
“A cautionary tale for the ages.” –San Francisco Bay Guardian
“A teen-angst-and-terror opus.”
–FANGORIA
“The horror genre is in need of vastly original ideas likes this.”
–FIRST SHOWING
“Floats smoothly between dark comedy and horror, and the result is
a coming-of-age film like you’ve never seen before.”
–SLASH FILM
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