The Living Dead Girl 4K 1982

“Who’s going to catch us, you idiot?” asks a minor character. Indeed, who? Under the pretext of making a horror movie, they get to ogle naked girls—which is exactly what the director and his crew are successfully doing. Despite this goal, there is still a plot of sorts.

Guided by Greenpeace’s principle—“You can’t pollute rivers”—a group of unknown individuals stacks barrels of chemical waste in the basement of an old castle. The crypt of the castle’s former owners—a mother and daughter—is also located there. To fully protect themselves from toxic fumes, these brave souls arm themselves with thin scarves and carry out their sinister deed—desecrating graves. In some inexplicable way, a girl comes back to life; to continue this semblance of life, she needs fresh “kroff.” Hee-hee, even her manicure hasn’t been ruined.

At this point, the director hits a snag, because Catherine is already there, but one isn’t quite enough. That’s exactly why her childhood friend Hélène appears on the horizon—a friend who would even go so far as to commit murder for the sake of her beloved.
The premise seems promising: “What is a person capable of in the name of love?” But that alone can’t justify the hour and a half spent watching this “masterpiece” titled “The Living Dead Girl.”
Even the seemingly heart-wrenching scene at the very end fails to evoke any emotion. “Kill me, I am evil,” pleads the main character, who undergoes a dramatic transformation as this horror story draws to a close.

The only conclusion one can draw at the end of the film is a bleak one: it’s people we should fear, not the dead.