Technically a zombie rather than a vampire film, Rollin creates one of his darkest and goriest meditations on female kinship and fated love in his signature haunting, dreamlike landscapes. A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood. “Bloodier and more violent than his own tastes preferred, The Living Dead Girl forced Rollin to work against the grain in his own preferred genre – and he transformed himself in the process. In the unsettling, bloody finale, Blanchard’s performance was so intense, so extreme in its confused appetite, revulsion, and glee, the take was nearly interrupted out of concern for the actress’s mental health. It’s one of the most emotionally incendiary finales in horror film history” –Tim Lucas, “The Depths of a Sister’s Love.”