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Catherine Valmont, the Living Dead Girl

Also called: La morte vivante
FilmUndeadScience gone wrong1968 to 1999

Catherine Valmont returns from her crypt needing blood and slowly recovers speech and some humanity. She ends by asking to be killed. Jean Rollin's film was banned in Germany for its gore.1

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First appeared
1982
Released 1982
Source work
The Living Dead Girl (1982)
Jean Rollin
Age rating
18 (UK)
Made in
France
What causes it
Science gone wrong
Toxic waste spills into a family crypt during an earthquake.
How you become one
A woman dead for years is revived by the spilled chemicals.
Intelligence
Some intelligence

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1982

Released 1982

field notes

What the sources say

1

She needs human blood to go on1

2

She recovers some of her humanity and is taught to speak again1

3

She asks to be killed1

4

Played by Françoise Blanchard, who collapsed from exhaustion on set1

5

Banned in Germany in 1986; passed uncut in Britain only in 20071

Sources

  1. The Living Dead Girl - Wikipedia

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Same era: 1968 to 1999

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