The Living Dead Girl (1982)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

The Worst Film Ever

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

With having discovered his work during last years October Challenger on IMDb's Horror board,I decided that one of my French fest viewings would be from Horror auteur Jean Rollin. Taking a look at a fellow IMDbers reviews,I spotted a fabulous looking Rollin title,which led to me getting ready to meet the living dead girl. The plot:Looking for a place to dump barrels of toxic waste,two grave robbers decide to put the waste in the crypt of an empty family castle (which since the death of Catherine Valmont has now become a tourist spot.)Putting the waste down,the robbers decide to open Valmont's grave.As they open the grave,an earthquake (!) takes place place,which causes the toxic waste to spill.Hit by the waste,Valmont comes back from the dead.Desperate for blood,Valmont drains the blood of both robbers.Stepping out of the crypt,Valmont starts to walk to the family mansion,in search of her childhood friend Hélène.View on the film:Made with an eye on the US market, (an English version was filmed at the same time,which is now sadly lost)director Jean Rollin & cinematographer Max Monteillet drive the film into an enchanting culture crash,by Valmont's Gothic Horror revival being surrounded by cars,cameras and phones,all of which allow outsiders to enter Valmont's world.Stabbing the movie with rough shots of gore,Rollin impressively makes the lingering effects shots pull open Valmont's feeling of being dead to the world.Weaving the childhoods of Valmont and Hélène in lavish flashbacks,Rollin soaks the film in a decaying fairy tale atmosphere,as elegant tracking shots cover the morbid silence from the Valmont castle,and restrained close-ups unveil the passionate love that Valmont & Hélène have for each other.Whilst being open handed with the gory sides,the screenplay by Rollin & Ralf takes an excellent delicate approach to the love between Valmont and Hélène,as Valmont's realisation over what she is leads to Valmont sinking into despair,and causes Hélène to try and keep Valmont safe from the outside world, until the utterly haunting ending breaks the wall down.Despite being called "Vain" by Rollin, Marina Pierro gives a fantastic performance as Hélène,whose longing love and desire to keep Valmont alive Pierro opens up with expressive body language.Taking on a role that Rollin originally offered to Teresa Ann Savoy,the alluring Françoise Blanchard gives a superb performance as Valmont,thanks to Blanchard's anguished face revealing the sorrow digging into Valmont and the aching,blood- drenched love of the living dead girl.

A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.Is this another Jean Rollin vampire film? Not really. We have the gratuitous nudity, and we have a woman who thirsts for blood. But she is not really a vampire so much as a zombie... if she can even be called a zombie (she is a bit of her own sort of creature). So, I would say this is a different Rollin.I enjoyed the film to a point. I like the claws, I like the blood, and I especially like the almost comical way that blood would squirt from victims on to surrounding people (other films of his seem to really downplay the blood). It tends to drag on after a while, but I suppose that is a risk you run.

Living Dead Girl, The (1982) *** (out of 4) French horror film from director Jean Rollin, which mixes tons of sex and nudity with plenty of the red stuff. After some toxic waste falls on her grave, a young woman returns with a hunger for blood. This is probably the best place for a newbie to Rollin to start as this perfectly captures the atmosphere of his best movies but also throws in plenty of over the top gore scenes, which will probably make a casual viewer sick. As with other Rollin films, there's plenty of beautiful women getting naked but the film does move at a snail's pace, which will probably put some to sleep.

Grisly, potent shocker from Jean Rollin regarding how a dead young lady of two years, the body surprisingly fresh without rot during that time(?), is revived from a spilled can of toxic waste, put there by some corpse looters, after a minor earthquake. She has vampire mentalities(..not to mention terrifying fingernails which can tear into flesh with ease) meaning this uncontrollable thirst for flesh and blood from human beings..the girl, Catherine(Françoise Blanchard), calls the evil inside. A "blood sister", Helene(Marina Pierro)did not know her best friend from childhood had been dead and after a phone call leading to Catherine's discovery(hearing the sound box playing music both listened to as children)she races to the villa to see about her. What Helene sees is a bloody mess, several unfortunates who became blood donors to Catherine's unhinged feeding time. Helene will slowly grow obsessed with keeping her beloved "sister" alive doing whatever it takes, meaning luring those unaware of what awaits them, to become victims for Catherine. A photographer, Barbara(Carina Barone)sees Catherine walking in a daze upon leaving her crypt and takes a snapshot. That snapshot fascinates her..the image that compels her to seek out the identity of Catherine might seal her fate. Perhaps, Barbara's husband(Mike Marshall)will be able to keep her from harm before it's too late. Or, will Barbara's obsession with learning more about Catherine, and taking more pictures of her, lead to a gruesome demise. What the people around this villa need to worry about is Helene's mad desire to find fresh bodies for her Catherine.The most important story element, and what I feel is the most haunting aspect, is that as days go by Catherine is realizing the monster she becomes when the evil hunger returns. She wishes to be put away and begs for Helene to see this through. The idea of losing her friend a second time, and not being able to come to terms with the fact that Catherine is dead, I think Helene is the tragic character of the film. Friendship and love seem to be very powerful emotional drives within this plot while Rollin often cuts into this with a furious rage when he shows Catherine's eating habits. She just doesn't suck blood with any form of sophistication, but tears into her meal like a crazed, starving animal. And, believe me, the feasting is extremely unsettling as we watch the flesh of throats, arms, and stomachs ripped with vengeance by Catherine who seems out of control with her senses with the primal urge to munch operating in overdrive. The direction is rather straight-forward, I felt, and followed a projected path. It ended about the way I imagined it would. The ending leaves only despair for the victim who just wishes for the blood lust and torment to leave her.