The Living Dead Girl

The Living Dead Girl
by Jean Rollin

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Actor: Carina Barone, Fanny Magier, Françoise Blanchard, Marina Pierro, Mike Marshall
Director: Jean Rollin
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-11-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment

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Movie Review: Incomprehensible and Slightly Boring...
Summary: 2 Stars

Hot French babes! Full frontal nudity! An axe to the head! A person in flames! Lots of blood! You think that these things would add up to a pretty darn good zombie movie wouldn't you? Well you would be wrong, at least in the case of this bizarre and often ridiculous story of friendship that goes beyond the grave, brought to us by the nation of France.

The movie starts out with some inept Frenchmen bungling the storage of some toxic waste goo. It's underneath a building where there happens to be a coffin containing a dead girl by the name of Catherine Valmont (Françoise Blanchard). You know what comes next...the waste is spilled. Oops! And since everyone knows that toxic waste awakens the dead, bad things happen. These guys weren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.

The story unfolds as Catherine makes her way back to her home, which is on the market to be sold, and gets in touch with her best friend named Helene, from her "alive" time. Of course Helene comes right over, only to find her friend naked and killing people. I know what you're thinking, "A naked zombie? There's no doubt I love zombies, but come on, I don't wanna see that!." Well that's simply not the case because this zombie is one hot dead chick. She gets my vote for the Hottest Dead Babe Award.

Jean Rollin decided that for this movie, dead people don't decompose. After 2 years of death, Catherine's still lookin' good. Maybe they had some makeup budget problems so this was the easy way out. Actually, it was to make their illogical story seem more credible. Had Catherine looked like a Fulci creation, Helene obviously would know she's dead. Instead, Helene just refuses to believe that her friend has risen from the dead, even after she sees Catherine feeding on the blood of humans. Helene seems to think that she's just going through some kind of phase because she actually helps Catherine to feed by going out and murdering people. Alright, stop right here. Maybe it's just me, but this is friendship taken way too far. You have to draw the line somewhere and in my book, killing people so your friend can feed on their blood is where the line is drawn! I don't care if you are "blood" sisters!

The case can be made that THE LIVING DEAD GIRL isn't even a zombie movie at all, and you could make some very good points on why it's not. One being the fact that Catherine's preference is the blood of her victims, not the flesh, and we don't get any indication that she's into brains either. Director Jean Rollin has a history of making vampire films, so this could be just another of his offshoots on that vampire lore. The bottom line is that she's undead either way you look at it. I prefer to put her into the zombie category for the simple fact that she's awoken by toxic waste, an oft-used movie method of zombification.

I can't complain about the acting on this one, it's actually acted out generally well. The gore is in full force and they do a good job. For me, the movie would have easily been an average film, if only the story hadn't fallen so short. So many things just didn't make sense and I simply wasn't able to overlook them.

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Summary of The Living Dead Girl

One of cult director Jean Rollin's most successful and commercial films. Cut to bits by Britain's state censors, this is the rarely-seen complete version. "The Living Dead Girl" takes in resurrection, despair and a desperate addiction to blood. A dark, beautiful and tragic film presented here in all its gore-filled glory.

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