Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)
A film that's flawed practically beyond redemption. Zombies that can drive and write??? The chemicals which are poured into the graveyard only reanimate the same three corpses each night, never any others??? The film is also awash with continuity errors and general all round shoddiness. One of the zombies, all gnarly faced has perfectly manicured hands as she claws her way out of her burial place is another example of slack film making. However the sleaziness of it all overpowers all before it especially the rather graphic gore sequences.
Taking several plot elements from The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, Revenge of the Living Dead Girls doesn't come close to Grau's classic in style or execution but it is more in line with Rollin's The Living Dead Girl. Oddly for a film made in 1987 it feels very early seventies with it's Franco-esq levels of gratuitous nudity and over the top Italian style violence - The scene of vaginal mutilation is still quite shocking and the eye scene and miscarriage in the shower come close in the grue stakes.
Revenge of the Living Dead Girls isn't really a film to recommend but it is campy fun if you can get over the haphazard nature of it all.
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