The Living Dead Girl (1982) (Remastered)

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When an earthquake and a toxic waste spill disturbs 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 hungers for flesh and blood and sets out to find childhood friend and blood sister Helene. Helene decides to help satisfy Catherine's bloodlust by luring people into their lair.

A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress (Francoise Blanchard as a zombified Paris Hilton look alike) who needs blood to live and lots of it. Living Dead Girl is an unholy mix of sex, zombiesque violence with some truly poetic and poignant moments amongst the carnage. Nowhere is this contrast in styles more pronounced that the film's shocking and extremely gory finale which is now shown in its complete form.

This is one of director Jean Rollin's few attempts to explore outside of the vampire genre for which he is best know and was very successful both artistically and commercially. This version restores all previously censored scenes and presents them fully remastered from the original negative.