Dead Girl (film)

Dead Girl is an American film written and directed by Adam Coleman Howard, who costars with Anne Parillaud. The cast also includes Teri Hatcher and Val Kilmer.

Plot
Ari Rose, an unsuccessful actor, falls for a beautiful woman named Helen-Catherine but strangles her when she rejects him. Ari then takes the dead woman home, has sex with her corpse, and comes to believe that she is still alive and in love with him. He's soon taking her out in public without anyone seeming to notice her condition.

Reception
A retrospective very negative review in The New York Times stated, "Certainly Very Bad Things and Dead-Alive, among other films, have proven that tasteless material can be funny, and even -- as in the wonderfully morbid The Loved One -- satirical. The real problem here is that Adam Coleman Howard is equally inept in all three of his capacities on this film. His script is poor (satirizing Hollywood even less incisively than the wretched Burn, Hollywood, Burn), his direction is hamfisted and self-indulgent, and his onscreen persona is completely devoid of charisma or interest. It is usually the case that when tasteless subject matter is handled poorly, it seems even more offensive than it really is. In this case, however, it is handled sopoorly as to merely provoke yawns."

"Moments of explosions of madness, frequent visits to psychiatrist Dr. Dar (Val Kilmer) -crazier than he is- are the most effervescent moments in the film. To spice things up, Frida (Amanda Plummer), Helen's roommate, falls in love with Ari. Monotonous moments are also part of it, like Helen's eternal apathy.", commented Folha de São Paulo in a brief review.