The Living Dead Girl
The Living Dead Girl is a 1982 film from France, directed by Jean Rollin, running 86 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic and zombie.
- Year
- 1982 · 1980s films
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Director
- Jean Rollin
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (47/100)
- Also known as
- The Living Dead Girl
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic, Zombie
Rollin's best late film. Melancholy where the Italians were loud.
Jean Rollin's best late film, and his most emotional. A chemical spill revives a dead young woman who returns to her childhood home and her surviving friend, needing blood to stay animate, and the friend covers for her out of love as the bodies pile up. It is a zombie film that is really about grief and codependency.
Rollin trades his usual dreamy vagueness for genuine feeling here, and the ending is one of the most tragic in his filmography. The gore is real but the melancholy is realer.
Sad, strange and unexpectedly moving.
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The cycle in depth
- Fantaterror: the Spanish horror boom, 1968 to 1976
Two cuts of every film, one for the censor in Madrid and one for the drive-in. Democracy killed the trick in two years.
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