Revenge Of Living Dead Girls / (Dol)

Promoted as France's first gore film, Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (La revanche des mortes-vivantes) is a consumatte shocker of horror and sex that has grown into a leend of being one of the sickest and most perverse of zombie films. Director Pierre B. Reinhard, a compatriot of auteur Jean Rollin (some even suggest Rollin himself, behind a pseudonym), is better known for his porno films with Brigitte Lahaie, but he equally relishes fantasique, with other outrageous outings in the genre (Ghost Soldier and Le Theatre Du Grand Guignol). Working from a script by producer Jean-Claude Roy, Reinhard delivered a cautionary tale of environmental contamination that advanced the cause of horrid retribution with more outr?hocks than Rollin's own toxic nightmare, The Living Dead Girl, an influence on the Reinhard film that also shares the same special effects man, Benoit Lestang. Scenes of gential mutilation and pregnancy hell, as well as delirious shots of bare-breasted zombie girls with decayed skulls, are part of the film's diseased charm and sweat-inducing notoriety. Its makers perhaps wisely chose pseudonyms for theatrical release. Now, in its premier presentation on any format in the United States, you can be the judge if this film went too far!