The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Simply excruciating French "Zombie" film, badly dubbed(with horrendous dialogue), sleazy(plenty of full frontal nudity..but not erotic, just boring), & cheap(the zombie get up, face mask and hand gloves are easily recognized as rubber). It's about supposed living dead girls, who were former employees of a chemical factory with corrupt toxic waste disposal practices using an idiotic outside contractor, who seek revenge for those responsible for poisoning them with toxic milk. The zombies even rape a prostitute vaginally thrusting her with a sword! The protagonist is a scientist with a "diseased" hand, whose wife's bulging pregnant belly opens to expose a dead child! In the film's finished product, the villainess of this flick, the assistant to the chemical plant executive who is drowned by the zombies(in his pool, no less, we notice that the zombie girls' skin is proper pigment exposing the so-called rotted flesh that is so dormant on their faces and hands..just rotten effects), actually is shown picking up the zombies in her car after stealing money from the place of her employ. Shortly afterward, as we never understand why she'd stop for the zombie girls and why they would not attack her, the villainess and undead die in a car fire set off by the police who wanted the violence and bloodshed to end.Now there was an alternate ending(..which is infinitely better than the one placed in the film)which explains why the villainess picks up the zombie girls and why they do not attack her. This ending explains a lot of things, ESPECIALLY why the zombie girls are rotting on the face and hands, but not throughout the rest of their bodies. Still, the film as it stands is amateurish, badly edited, with messy resolution and inept characters.

This really is a truly bad film. Not bad in the sense of "fun bad", but "bad-annoying". I was sober when I watched this (unfortunately), and I still couldn't understand what was going on half the time. The only redeeming quality of this movie is some nice nudity and soft core sex scenes. Large plot holes that an asteroid could fall through, bad TV-quality filming, and substandard acting are only a few of the annoyances. The ending also makes no sense until you watch the alternate ending and then things kind of make sense.By the way, what is a milk producer doing making a chemical that brings dead people back to life? Milk really does do a body good!

REVENGE OF THE LIVING DEAD GIRLS (Pierre B. Reinhard - France 1987).The premise of spilling some toxic waste in awakening the dead is rather similar to Jean Rollin's girlie zombie flick LA MORTE VIVANTE (1981), in this case it's the spilling of contaminated milk that awakes three slumbering girls in a graveyard instead of one. Some even suggested Jean Rollin directed this one too, and that Pierre B. Reinhard was a pseudonym. Does three living dead girls mean more fun? Well, not exactly. Now, I'm not a big zombie fan, but sometimes it can be fun, even the bad ones, but the only thing this one delivers is a couple of truly sickening - but not too convincing - gore scenes, like a woman's abortion in the shower, a sword used as a dildo and some genital mutilation. Despite this, even gore lovers or those looking for a couple of laughs, better look elsewhere. In between the occasional and quite infrequent zombie action, we're treated with a hokum storyline, wooden acting and when talking atmosphere and cinematography, Jean Rollin's oeuvre begins to look brilliant in comparison. This one is plain dull, and Brigitte Lahaie isn't even in it. The pits.Camera Obscura --- 2/10

This is a great sleaze horror fest. Dead girls are brought back to life through the illegal dumping of chemicals in a cemetery by a corrupt corporate official. This is not a puritanical American horror movie with MTV style editing. So things are slower, quieter, the action/stunts are not as realistic, and the dubbing could be better (as always). But when was the last time you saw naked female zombies? Almost every female gets naked in this movie- why can't all movies be like that? There's plenty of shocking gore and outrageous violence here, things that no American filmmaker would dare try. You'll see a bloody naked pregnant woman, a girl pleasuring herself with a zombie's hand only to be killed later with a spear through her privates. And yet, this is not done in a malevolent perverse style but it's rather campy, and yes, even fun. So check it out! Now, this is a movie that needs a remake and sequels!