Dead American Woman is a dark comedy micro-budget horror film, shot in 2006 and the final cut was released by Massacre Video in 2018, from director Peter Romeo Lambert (Nurse Jill). The film is about a go-go dancer who is killed in a snuff film and a year later rises from the grave to get revenge.
So this movie is very obviously done on a low budget and I think even shot on digital video, I think so, I can't tell completely. Either way the acting and writing are okay, what there is of gore effects is pretty well done. The movie has a rather interesting atmosphere that is a mix of John Waters-esque Surreal Melodrama and slasher film cliches I mean the Waters vibes are strong here, one of the performances is reminiscent of Divine and one character reminds me of Mink Stole as Taffy in Water's Female Trouble. From a technical standpoint the movie looks rather cheap and the audio isn't that great but that is the fault of the shooting format, and not the filmmakers. Either way it gives the film a rather interesting aesthetic. The movie is pretty well paced and stays interesting, not a single boring moment I think.
On the Gore Meter from one to ten
One being something like Nosferatu
Ten being something like Peter Jackson's Braindead
Dead American Woman is a 3.5
While this film doesn't contain any extremely graphic gore it does have its nasty moments.
The movie is far more sleazy, wild and graphic than Nurse Jill was. Which might turn fans of Lambert away. Personally I think it helps set it apart from the surreal, almost, classy nature of Nurse Jill. I'd recommend it to fans of Jill and fans of weird cult cinema like Female Trouble and The Greasy Strangler. And I will say it Peter Romeo Lambert is the John Waters of this century.
8/10
