The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)

Don't Believe the Hype

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This dreadful little stink bomb of a movie doesn't know if it wants to be a crime caper or a supernatural thriller. Seriously. In fact, there were two endings shot for it, one of which indicated the whole Zombie thing was a hoax. (The alternate ending actually makes slightly more sense.) Still, this movie has a gratuitous amount of nudity, quite a lot of violence, some passable special effects. It was probably made in French originally, but dubbed into an English Version, but still with a lot of the French character about it.Oh, Pierre, the town is being overrun with zombies... let's surrender!

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.

When I decided to rent this flick, I thought, "Well, here's a stupid movie that will give me a few laughs as I ridicule the thing." I really underestimated this one. It was far beyond stupid. I don't know that there's an appropriate adjective. Maybe... mindless. The acting was ridiculously bad. Everyone in the movie did things seemingly at random, an impression no doubt helped along by the complete lack of continuity (Keep an eye on the chemist's hand as it goes from normal to horribly decrepit to a little burnt and back again... in no particular order!) I could barely make heads or tails of the choppy editing. Day? Night? Who knows? Who cares? I thought it would be worthy of ridicule, but it was far more ridiculous than anything I could come up with to say about it. There are a few scenes that are good for a laugh, so nonsensical are they, but that's about it.At the end of the flick, there's a message displayed in French that says, "Don't be diabolical; don't arouse the interest of your friends in this movie. Thank you." I think that's pretty good advice.

This is one of those films that "irresponsibly" intermixes extreme sex and violence. This doesn't bother me, however, because the two things are like drinking cold beer in a hot tub--both are enjoyable but for completely different reasons. And just as no sane person is going to start bathing in cold vats of beer or drinking hot tub water, these kinds of movies aren't going to make gore erotic and sex repulsive, however much they mix the two. The real problem with THIS movie though is that it fails miserably both as a sex movie AND as a splatter movie.Three nubile young girls die and come back to life as zombies either because some misguided environmentalists poisoned their milk with chemical stolen from a chemical company OR because the same chemical company is pouring toxic waste in the graveyard--the incompetently plotted movie never quite makes up its mind on this. The zombie girls have dessicated faces and hands but perfectly firm young bodies when they disrobe (which is very often). They are thus neither very sexy nor at all scary. Maybe this was meant to be an absurdist comedy, but I sure wasn't laughing. The non-zombie girls aren't much more appealing (how do you say "sleazy skanks" in French?). They kind of look like refugees from "Traci, I Love You" (Traci Lord's French-made, only-legal porn flick) except that their acting is not quite up to the level of 80's Euro-porn.The splatter scenes are very puerile in their attempts to shock the viewer, resembling more the shot-on-video, sold-to-suckers-over-the-internet efforts of modern-day amateur filmmakers than the European horror masters like Argento and Fulci (or even the European horror hacks like D'Amato and Mattei). The director, another hardcore-porn refugee, apparently went on to helm the "French Lolita" (hardly a necessary film in the "zank 'eaven, for leetle girlss" French cinema).Not a good film in any sense of the word , but if you're still interested contact me--I'll sell it to you, CHEAP.