Product Details

• Actors: Marina Pierro, Francoise Blanchard, Mike Marshall, Carina Barone, Fanny Magier
• Directors: Jean Rollin
• Format: Anamorphic, Blu-ray, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English, French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Redemption
• DVD Release Date: August 28, 2012
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0083Q4K2C
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,634 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

SYNOPSIS: When both an earthquake and a toxic waste spill disturb her grave, a deceased girl comes alive to walk the earth again in French filmmaker Jean Rollin's macabre tale of zombie carnage. After rising from her tomb, Catherine (Francoise Blanchard) hungers for flesh and blood and sets out to find childhood friend and blood sister Helene (Marina Pierro). Helene decides to help satisfy Catherine's bloodlust by luring people into their lair.

SPECIAL FEATURES: Introduction by Jean Rollin, Interview with Jean Rollin, Interviews with cast and crew, Original Theatrical Trailers and more!

THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW TRANSFER WAS RESTORED AND REMASTERED IN HIGH DEFINITION - - FIRST TIME EVER ON BLU-RAY!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars From naked female vampires to naked female zombies... July 18, 2000

By A Customer

Format:DVD

Yet another well-done, beautiful-looking Jean Rollin film. Some workers storing chemical waste in a crypt decide to moonlight as grave-robbers and open a coffin containing an astonishingly well-preserved young woman. But oops, there's this earthquake, y'see, and chemicals spill and o' course this brings the girl back to life and she starts killing (sharp fingernails!). Then she wanders off to a large chateau, of which her undead brain contains vague memories. There she meets her best friend, who's so glad to see her back among the living (sort of) that she decides to help her get the blood she craves by luring in victims. This leads to some pretty heavy gore - more graphic than what you usually see from Rollin - and o' course there's plenty of nudity, all of it beautifully, poetically filmed. Pretty extreme in all counts, and has that dreamlike suspension-of-logic that'll make you not worry about details (like why didn't the girl decay at all? and is there anything worse than the accordian-rock of The Fireflies?). Another good 'un from Rollin.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great French Gore Romp July 16, 2000

By frankenberry

Format:DVD

THE LIVING DEAD GIRL is easily my favorite of the 7 Jean Rollin DVD's released thus far by IMAGE on DVD and it's the only one in my permanent collection. If you like your euro-horror a little sexier, a lot GORIER, and even quite humorous, you cannot go wrong here. From the opening scene with the graverobbers being disfigured by toxic vapors (hilariously fake) to later ultra-gory scenes as our tragic zombie-female-vamp dispatches one victim after another with her long sharp fingernails or devours their necks in extra-long munching scenes, this one DELIVERS the goods! It has a very euro-horror feel to it and is not as esoteric and heady as some of the other Rollin films. Although french, it easily would appeal to fans of italian horror as well...so if you're not a big Rollin fan, you may want to give this one a chance anyway. The DVD looks great and includes a trailer with ALL the highlights of the film in it (so watch the movie first). Check it out!

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Movie good, DVD horrible... December 9, 2010

By M. Heggemann

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is more about the DVD itself than the movie. The 1 star is for the quality of the DVD, I would give the movie 3.5-4. The movie is standard Jean Rollin fare - gratuitous nudity, lots of blood, and a dreamlike atmosphere. The DVD, however...

First off, the Amazon display image is NOT the actual DVD artwork. The image shown is featured on the back of the DVD case, but the front has a nice picture of the female star naked and covered in blood. So much for the good...

This DVD has some severe strikes against it:

1) The "widescreen" notation on the technical specs on the back of the case is a complete and utter lie. The movie is presented "widescreen" in the sense that its ratio is not quite 1:33 - it looks to be about 1:64 or 1:66 - which is fine, except that the movie is presented in a non-anamorphic format, and is also slightly windowboxed inside the 4x3 frame, so it's kinda like watching a moving postage stamp in the middle of your HD TV.

2) The DVD looks to come from a poorly converted PAL source, and the image has more combing than a salon full of 'tween girls getting ready for the homecoming dance. In fact, the combing is so bad in some scenes that characters almost look like they are leaving trails behind them as they walk. The combing can cause the whole scene, even static objects, to seem to be in motion. I would recommend dramamine before viewing. (Oddly enough, the included short subject "Les pays loins", looks beautiful.)

3) The running time listed on the back of the case (96 minutes) is a full 10 minutes off - the movie runs a few seconds over 86 minutes.

4) The whole thing seems to have been slapped together without much regard - there are mis-spellings on the back of the case (for example: the short included as an extra is listed as "Les pays lion", instead of "Les pays loins", which is its real title), the previously mentioned incorrect running time , and if you put the DVD in your computer, you will find out that the DVD is named "Untitled Project"!!!

In short (I know...too late), I could not really recommend this DVD and was severely disappointed by it.