Deadgirl

Heidi and I watched it and we both liked it! It's a bit unsung at the moment but likely deserves a bit more attention. I give it a thumbs up!

my friend andy said this was one of the best films of the year.

i thought it was definitely one of the more original zombie pictures ever made.

my favorite scene was the botched abduction at the gas station. had i seen that in a theater, i'd have burst into applause.

this film would be a good discussion topic for ax wound radio.

It was *genius*. I have often complained about the classic Hollywood knockout. The series Lost (as much as I love it) does that often. Someone gets knocked on the back of the head and they just go to sleep for awhile. It's retarded. It also doesn't work.

If you hit someone hard on the back of the head, chances are, they'll bleed a lot and then get *REALLY* angry. People do not knock out as easily as Hollywood likes to pretend. Especially from the back of the head. That's about the hardest part of the skull.

If you want to knock someone out, clip upwards into their chin, or maybe the temple. Even then, it ain't guaranteed by a long shot.

Deadgirl was written by Trent Haaga, who is a really good screenwriter. I don't know how, but Troma, after putting people through the ringer, ends up spitting out really great writers, like Trent and James Gunn.

Trent Haaga hangs out with Chris Seaver's posse. I liked Trent's performance in Mulva, Zombie Ass Kicker. I like it when he goes, "Aww, what couple of BIIITCHHHES!" and flexes at the camera. He's also in LBPs latest release Ski Wolf if I remember correctly (only seen the trailer).

I LOVE Seaver and his films. I'm in one, that was never released: karaoke Kid.

though I truly believe Appolyon The Destroyer may be my fave.

Can't wait for Ski Wolf

Heidi exposed me to Chris Seaver's films as well as Teen Ape's penis. I'm now going to therapy and recovering nicely.

Actually, the art of knocking someone out with a blow to the head is crazy fucking hard in general. Most cases result in brain damage, death or waking concussions. When you hear about classic "Knock you on the head and mug you" stories like were popular in 1800+ literature it wasn't very realistic. It's true that people would wop you on the noggin and take your cash, but you didn't wake up later and carry on with your life so often as you suffered long term damage or you just died from the damage it caused. And aiming for the temple is a hell of an easy way to kill someone, not so much knock them out.

Exactly.

I mentioned clipping the chin from boxing (watching, not participating, lol). The chin seems to be a bit of a knockout button.

Still. It just might as easily hurt them and then really piss them off!

I really enjoyed this film conceptually and I found a lot of great, dark humor but I had a hard time getting past the two leads in here. Ricky looked like Joaquin Phoenix without being able to act like him and JT looked like a horsey faced Christian Slater and I kept getting the giggles because of it. *sigh* The dead girl herself, to me, was the best actress in this entire affair. I had a really hard time believing these characters. I didn't believe for one second in Ricky's obssession with that girl and even she put me off in the acting department. JT was better but I was just never really convinced with these boys and their relationship. I still really liked this movie just because it's such a departure and I did really enjoy this sordid tale. It's gutsy to be sure. The better film for me though was Grace! I adored Grace. Found it to be much creepier.

I wanted to buy Karaoke Kid but it wasn't on Amazon. Heidi, you were in that movie? (swoons) I saw the hilarious trailer, where Debbie Rochon informs the contestants that second prize is prison and rape, and how "that's not so bad". Loyd Koffman was in the trailer as well. I remember when I was a kid my friend and I would hang out at recess going over the finer points of the Toxic Avenger.

I'm a mainstream LBP fan, meaning I've only seen the ten or so movies they have available on Amazon. I'm poor, so I have to go for the best deals, which is why it might be awhile before I get to watch Terror at Blood Fart Lake, Taintlight, and Ski Wolf. Those movies are 20 bucks a pop, which seems a bit much considering they're only an hour long. It's hard to pay 20 bucks per movie when I'm used to paying that price for a 5 pack of LBP flicks on Amazon. 4 bucks a movie is a sweet deal.

I think Seaver jacks up the price when the movies first come out to give any rich folks or die-hard, have-to-have-it-now LBP fans the chance to make him some money (which is totally understandable). Then he drops the price for the rest of us after awhile.

My favorite LBP purchase so far is still the first one I ever bought, a double feature disc with Mulva, Zombie Ass Kicker and the original Filthy McNasty. I think I like all of Seaver's movies the same. The only one I thought I might not like was Quest for the Egg Salad, and then they went into that dance routine at the end and I loved it.

Yeah, Quest is highly underrated. I like it more than most people. I don't like Filthy McNasty 3: Filthy Mcnastiest as much as most people like it, however. The first two are better, in my opinion.

I play The Kid's mom in Karaoke Kid.

Now is the part where I mention I did all of Seaver's DVD and promo art (including re-designing their logo) from 2004 to 2008. The Tempe releases altered my designs to varying degrees, but I did get paid for it.

I will never forget Chris's kindness, letting me split a convention table with him one time so I'd have a place to sell my movies. They also gave us a ride to and from the airport. LBP are good people.

yes they are! Man, I cannot wait for their Twilight riff!

I never did hear back from Chris after I sent him my resume.

I wouldn't turn down the chance to work with you, Jessica. It's on my list of things to do before I die.

Really looking forward to seeing this. Loves me some deadgirls, yo.