The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)

The title of this film alludes to it possibly being a sequel and the only film I could think of that it could be a sequel to is one of the two good Jean Rollin films, 'The Living Dead Girl'. This film actually has nothing to do with said film and has no relation to it beyond also being French; but Pierre B. Reinhard's film is at least bad enough to have been made by Jean Rollin. Like Rollin's other good film, The Grapes of Death, this one focuses on a food supply being contained, except instead of grapes it's milk. Three girls fall victim to the contaminated milk and end up dead. Then, the same company that infected the milk pours toxic waste on their graves and the trio returns from the dead for revenge. The plot is thoroughly amateurish and ridiculous and this is carried on throughout the whole film. The only real reason to see it is for the gore and sleaze and the film does feature plenty; culminating in scenes that feature eye-gouging and necrophilia. The zombie make-up is terrible and the make-up department either couldn't be bothered or was doing the effects badly on purpose. The film is slightly original on the zombie front, as the ones featured are your average lumbering corpses; but that's hardly enough to make up for the rest of the pitiful film. This one comes highly not recommended.

A chemical company CEO boost profits by illegally dumping dangerous chemicals. The lackey dumps the chemicals, where else, but in a graveyard and when the chemicals soak into the ground, some recently dead young women get up out of their graves and decide to exact some revenge.My appreciation for this movie demonstrates my weakness for campy B movies. While ostensibly a zombie movie, the zombies are quite unusual in that they only come out at night, are very cunning, can open and shut doors, can put on or take off clothes, swim, have sex and even drive cars. The explanation for all this was so obvious I admit I didn't guess it until I watched the alternate ending on the DVD. It also explains why the director played fast and loose with the plot throughout the movie attempting to obfuscate the obvious and I guess he succeeded with me.The zombie girls have some issues with make-up continuity; their hands will be dead looking in one scene yet normal in the next. More continuity issues plague the victims whose state of dress changes from scene to scene. One female victim, her clothes ripped off in the attack, is once again covered a moment later as the zombie girls drag her from the room. The acting is terrible and the direction uninspired, technically the movie doesn't deserve a 6/10 but it manages to be entertaining despite its flaws and ultimately that's what movies are all about. Kudos to the casting department, the women are all very attractive without looking like bimbos.

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.

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