La revanche des mortes vivantes (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

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:

sex | zombie | zombie violence | female full frontal nudity | white panties | 

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Taglines:

Shocking beyond belief

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

16 September 1987 (France)

Also Known As:

A Revanche dos Mortos Vivos

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.

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Alternate Versions

The 1995 UK Redemption video (released as "Revenge Of The Living Dead Girls") was cut by almost 3 minutes by the BBFC with heavy edits to scenes of gore and sexual violence including a woman's eye being gouged with a high heeled shoe, a man's penis being bitten off by a female zombie and the stabbing of a woman's vagina with a sword.

User Reviews

Gore & Nudity

Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)

*** (out of 4)

Ohhh...how I love a good French horror and this one here offers up three beautiful French whores. Incredibly bizarre, surreal and sometimes disturbing film that sounds dumb but manages to pack quite a little punch. A company, not wanting to pay for their chemicals to be dumped properly, put some into a truck of milk, which eventually kills three girls. The girls then return from the dead to seek bloody revenge. There's a lot of political overtones that get somewhat tiresome but the real reason to seek this film out is due to the incredibly violent and sexual nature of the film. Men and women's genitalia are torn to shreds, eyes ripped out, beautiful naked French ladies and there's even a foursome between a prostitute and the three dead girls. The film is certainly campy but there's some terrific atmosphere. The alternate ending on the DVD is a jewel.