Directed by Jean Rollin • 1982 • France
Starring Marina Pierro, Françoise Blanchard, Mike Marshall

Catherine Valmont (Françoise Blanchard), a wealthy heiress dead before her time, is accidentally reanimated when some unfortunate movers attempt to store drums of chemical waste in the neglected burial vaults below her uninhabited chateau. This “living dead girl” does everything that cinematic convention requires—she kills people, drinks human blood, devours human flesh—yet, for all this, we accept her as an innocent. Meanwhile, the effect that her resurrection has upon her childhood friend Hélène (Marina Pierro) is infinitely more conscious, deliberate, and evil. Bloodier and more violent than his own tastes preferred, THE LIVING DEAD GIRL forced legendary cult director Jean Rollin to work against the grain in his own preferred genre—and he transformed himself in the process, yielding an intense, emotionally incendiary experience more extreme than nearly anything else in his body of work.