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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 06:22 EDT
Beyond the Multiplex - Salon.com
The undead chick in the basement
After building its aura of notoriety on the film-festival circuit, the indie horror flick "Deadgirl" reaches audiences this weekend through a highly unusual release pattern, playing Friday and Saturday midnight shows in a handful of big-city theaters. All the ingredients for a wannabe cult hit are in place: rumors of outraged walkouts; a lascivious advertising campaign featuring a woman's parted, reddish-gray lips viewed sideways (so they resemble a different part of the female anatomy); widespread Internet discussion, most of it on a sight-unseen basis. Salon's Tracy Clark-Flory wrote a Broadsheet post on "Deadgirl" earlier this month that inspired a heated exchange, and Annalee Newitz of io9 wrote a quasi-learned piece last fall about the tr
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