Die Rache der lebenden Toten (1987)

Promoted as France's first gore film, Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (La revanche des mortes-vivantes) is a consumate shocker of horror and sex that as grown into a legend as being one of the sickest and most perverse of zombie films.

Director:

Pierre B. Reinhard (as Peter B. Harsone)

Writers:

Jean-Philippe Berger (adaptation) (as Philip Berger), Jean-Claude Roy (screenplay) (as John King)

Stars:

Cornélia Wilms, Kathryn Charly, Anthea Wyler

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Cornélia Wilms	...	Ingrid Schwartz
Kathryn Charly
Anthea Wyler	...	Brigitte
Véronique Catanzaro	...	Jocelyne (as Véronik Catanzaro)
Sylvie Novak
Laurence Mercier
Patrick Guillemin	...	Jacques Alphan
Gábor Rassov
Christina Schmidt
Georges Lucas	...	Le gardien du cimetière
André Kay	...	Le camionneur
Michel Tugot-Doris	...	L'artificier
Sylvain Salnave	...	Le patron du bistrot
Laura Clair	...	La première prostituée (uncredited)

Storyline

Promoted as France's first gore film, Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (La revanche des mortes-vivantes) is a consumate shocker of horror and sex that as grown into a legend as being one of the sickest and most perverse of zombie films.

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Plot Keywords:

gore | sex | zombie | bloodbath | blood splatter | 

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Taglines:

Shocking beyond belief

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Genres:

Horror

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

11 May 1989 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

Rache der Zombies

Company Credits

Production Co:

Samouraï Films, Tanagra Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

76 min 82 min (uncut)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

At the end, when the car is on fire and the money is "blowing away", you can tell the money is actually being dropped on the burning car and the scene is being shown in reverse - watch the fire and smoke go back *into* the car instead of blowing *away* from it.

User Reviews

France of the Dead!

The French and movies about the living dead don't really seem to match together very well, do they? Remember "Zombie Lake"? Well, "Revenge of the Living Dead Girls" is almost as awful as that one, only it wasn't so fortunate to hoard a gigantic cult status and became pretty much forgotten over the years. Nevertheless, this is entertaining bad cinema in case all you're looking for is no-budget exploitation, sleaze and a handful of repulsive gore sequences. The film opens like standard zombie guff, with three recently deceased teenage girls coming back from the dead after toxic waste has been spilled on their tombs. The girls immediately go after the management of the local dairy factory since poisoned milk caused their deaths to begin with. Or at least so it seems, because the whole factory hangs together by fraud, conspiracies, scandals and bribery. There's a fairly ingenious plot-twist near the end but, until then, all we get to see is terrible acting, pointless red herrings and completely hilarious dialogues ("a little bit of necrophilia never hurt anyone"). The gory scenes, albeit amateurish, are effectively nauseating and offensive! Some woman gets her eyes poked out by high heels, another one poor soul gets a sword inserted in her vagina and THE most stomach-turning moment involves a totally random but incredibly bloody miscarriage in the shower. That was just too much! Proceed at your own risk...