The Living Dead Girl

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.