Suicide Girls Must Die (Review)

What is Suicide Girls? Despite the title, it’s not a bunch of girls who go around killing themselves. Suicide Girls is actually pretty much a brand at this point. It started as a softcore pornography website featuring an array of women who are culture-classified as pin-up, rock, and goth. The website itself features the pornography (like Playboy pornography) as well as message boards, articles, and interviews with celebrities in the community and the Suicide Girls themselves. Suicide Girls have appeared in various magazines, television shows like CSI: NY, Real Sex, Nightline, Californication, and the horror film remake Wizard of Gore. Suicide Girls even put on burlesque shows and have released two books and a comic book series.

In Suicide Girls Must Die, twelve popular Suicide Girls head to a remote cabin in Maine to shoot a calendar. From the get go, things don’t go exactly as planned. The Girls press on through the madness, but tensions begin to grow when some of the models begin to go missing. Did they walk off set or were they taken away? When bodies start to pile up it’s not suicide, it’s murder. Suicide Girls Must Die is written by Brian Fagan and directed by Sawa Suicide. Apparently everyone within the company shares a stage last-name of Suicide. The film stars Amina, Bailey, Bully, Daven, Even, Fractal, James, Joleigh, Mary, Quinne, Rigel, Roach, Roza, Sawa, and Soren.

I was at the Phili Comic Con this weekend and the Suicide Girls table was the first one I stumbled across. I knew I followed Suicide Girls on Twitter, but didn’t know about everything they did. Being a reality TV whore and a horror fan, I was sold by the fact that the cover says “world’s first reality horror movie.” Bought it! Yeah! The film starts with a very Blair Witch Project-like shot of a girl crying into the camera. I guess as a way to give off the reality TV feel, the house in Maine was fitted with cameras and even a confessional. When not shooting for the calendar, the girls were encouraged to keep a camera with them to interview each other, film the process, and “keep busy.” And right from the get go the women have a lot to talk about – being heckled by an angry white woman, being pulled over by a crazy cop, being shot at by a crazy groundskeeper. Is it any wonder the relationships between the girls are literally pulled apart in this movie?

I do give the women credit if their characters in Suicide Girls Must Die are just like their personalities in real life. They have the ability to laugh in the face of danger, stick together when times are rough, be professional and respectful yet have a frickin’ party, and they are really stunning. I think this is what drew me into the movie the most. Yes, it has a lot of naked modeling shots and ass and tits, but it’s weird – I really grew to care about the girls. I think the movie did a good job of showing that the girls have tattoos and the girls are nude models, but they are also people and pretty cool ones at that. I never imagined I would say a movie about nude models would be character driven, but this one is. It has very minimal suspense and almost no gore, but the characters are enough to keep you interested.

I know there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the practices of the Suicide Girls owner and a lot of negative reviews about this film, but I really enjoyed it. It ended up being a completely different experience than I had expected. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes character driven, slasher horror films…and anyone who likes naked, attractive women.