Synopsis
A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.
A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.
Scare - Dead or Alive?, La muerta viviente, Lady Dracula, Живая мертвая девушка, 活死人少女, 리빙 데드 걸, A Morta-Viva
I've heard of lesbian vampires, but never a lesbian zombie. What next, a lesbian doctor?
Reanimated flesh eater begins to recollect her past life via her closest companion and now caretaker. Stylistic simplicity filled with equal parts tender friendship and unnerving bloodshed—and the consequences of each on both characters. Fueled by personal emotion, a living dead premise that feels more vampiric than zombie, deliberate pacing and striking visuals that both breathe like a fine table wine, and a tragic, highly disturbing (and inevitable) finale that will leave an impression—regardless if you saw it coming.
I didn’t expect to love this as much as I did and be moved as much as I was this go around, but I’m an idiot for thinking that... fully aware of how easily Jean Rollin has fucked with my emotions in the past. I’m a fool.
Utterly eerie, unnerving, uncanny in both performance and atmosphere; the presence exuded by Francoise Blanchard is the void beyond life and death. Her silences, her voice (fighting past the void), her slightly alien movements all craft not a heartless, murderous vampire but a reluctantly uncontained thirst. Her love is muted by her need; her death has transformed her heart. This is both a classic vampire story and a strange mutation, sewn into the ancient stones and palatial rooms and blooming countrysides. (Even the monster is an innocent victim. Dying for lost love is better than no dying at all.)
October count: 5/31
If you die first, I'll follow you. I swear it with my blood
vampirism & cannibalism?? so perfect 🩸i wanna be a sexy cannibalistic vampire so bad 🧛🏻♀️🖤
“There’s so much blood all around me.”
A lesbian tragedy depicting love transcending the confines of mortality woven into a zombie splatter film... and it’s a masterpiece!
The Living Dead Girl sees Jean Rollin at his most audacious and bloodthirsty! The film starts out like any number of trashy zombie films and sees a couple of thieves spill toxic waste in a crypt, which revives a dead countess; who goes on to rekindle her relationship with her childhood sweetheart. Once the plot gets going properly, the film becomes an interesting examination of love and death. It's an exquisite concoction - on the one hand, you have plenty of violence and gore (most of which is really quite graphic), but on the other is somewhat tender love story. Each compliments the other too - the violence, along with the soundscape, which features plenty of blood curdling screams, really…