Make-Out with Violence
The Deagol Brothers, 2009
Catalog No.: FTF-013
Length: 105 minutes
Make-Out with Violence is a genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the dead. Set against the backdrop of a summer of cicadas and swimming pools, the film blends elements of up-beat teenage melodrama with the strange gravity of classic coming of age stories.
It tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the unexplained disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy’s mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the undead Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life.
As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.
Official Selection of SXSW, Mar del Plata, Boston, Maryland and the Cologne Conference Film Festivals. Winner of Best Feature at the Atlanta, Nashville, Oxford and Magnolia Film Festivals. Features an award winning original pop soundtrack by The Non-Commissioned Officers.
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“One of the best Indie Films of the decade!”
– Cinematical
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– Jim Ridley, Village Voice
“One of the most original films I've seen at a festival.”
– Kim Voynar, Film Essent
“One of the Top 10 films of 2009! It’s the "American Graffiti" of Zombie love stories.”
– Tim Anderson, Bloody-Disgusting.com
“The Greatest film of the decade. A truly beautiful masterpiece.”
– Gutter Magazine
“Haunting and heartfelt, a striking, impressive debut about love and loss, life and death, full of suburban strangeness and dark splendor.”
– James Rocchi, MSN Movies