Director – Pierre B. Reinhard (France Nymphos, French Lolitas)
Starring – Cornelia Wilms (Gwendoline, Fire Under the Skin), Kathryn Charly, and Anthea Wyler
Release Date – 1987
Rating – 2.5/5
Blu Release – 3/5
Tagline – “Shocking beyond belief”
Horror is a funny thing and so it contradicting yourself. I just reviewed Severin’s release of the 1982 Indonesian horror film Satan’s Slave. In my review I mentioned how the artwork lead me to believe that the movie was going to be boring or dull. I was shocked by how amazing the movie actually was.
I was looking forward to checking out Severin’s release of The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls. The artwork was absolutely amazing and made my mind wonder with the possibilities. Sadly, it was the exact opposite of Satan’s Slave. The artwork was amazing but the film lost traction as it went on. I want to thank Severin for sending this one my way to review.
**Spoiler Alert**The film follows a rich executive working for a chemical company who has been embezzling company money meant to pay for the proper disposal of a dangerous chemical. Instead, he’s been dumping the chemicals in a cemetery which has poisoned some of the local women. What he doesn’t know is that the chemicals he’s been pumping into the ground at the cemetery have reanimated the corpses of the young women he accidentally poisoned and now they are out for blood.**Spoiler Alert**
The film started out on the right foot. I loved how the story started, the setting in which the film took place, and how the dead became to be. However, once we reached the halfway mark on the film it quickly switched gears and started to wonder away from the initial premise. I’ll discuss that more in a few moments.
The acting in this one is solid but very uneven. Most of the cast delivers a decent performance but there was a few scenes where the cast just ran through their dialogue with no attempt at acting. It weighted the scene down and made the impact of the story miss it’s mark. The story for this one starts out perfectly. We get a solid enough reason for corpses to rise from the grave with the chemical dump but the movie comes off the rails by the halfway mark. The extramarital affair and the conspiracy to cover the tracks is rather boring at takes the horror out of the story. It really needed to stay straight forward like it was instead of jumping genres like it did.
Finally, this one has the kills you know and love from a zombie flick. We get some blood and several practical effects that fit in nicely with 80s zombie flicks. They are fun and work for the film. With that being said, the zombies are laughable. They don’t look bad but there is something about them that doesn’t look right. From the moment you see them on screen you find yourself wanting to laugh. Overall, The Revenge of the Living Dead Girls starts out great but couldn’t hold it together. It still has it’s moments but don’t expect your next favorite movie with this one. The blu does look great and looks great on any collector’s shelf but that’s about it.
Special Features:
Interviews
Theatrical Trailer
