Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1986)

La revanche des mortes vivantes (original title): Director: Pierre B. Reinhard; Writers: Jean-Philippe Berger (adaptation), Jean-Claude Roy (screenplay).   A chemical company manager and his secretary are both involved in corruption, sabotage and blackmail, which leads to toxic waste turning corpses into killer zombies.

Sonia (Laura Clair) is looking for a ride.

It's a rural country road, so not much opportunity for hitchhiking. Finally a truck approaches.

It's actually a milk truck.

Sonia injures her leg running to the milk truck. The driver helps her into the passenger seat.

They stop at an old tower or grain silo. The driver carries her inside.

While they fool around in the building, a mysterious motorcyclist dumps an orange liquid into the milky haul.

Meanwhile, in a neighboring farmhouse, Mrs. LeGrand and her soon-to-be-wed daughter, Catherine (Véronique Catanzaro), are having breakfast.

Mrs. LeGrand shows the newspaper coverage of the wedding. Catherine is unhappy with the picture of her in the article.

Catherine stands up and drinks her bowl of milk (revealing she's wearing sheer panties at the breakfast table).

Catherine, feeling playful and giddy with the wedding, tosses the bowl. It shatters on the ground and she laughs about it.

Suddenly, Catherine feels ill and falls to the ground, dying instantly. Could it be something in the milk?

A couple more girls die when they drink milkshakes. The toxic milk soon becomes the talk of the town.

Jacques Alphan (Patrick Guillemin) is interviewed by the police. Jacques is the CEO of OKF, a big factory in this tiny hamlet being blamed for the rash of dairy deaths.

Brigitte (Anthea Wyler) is an evil bitch. She paid the motorcyclist to pour the toxic liquid into the milk truck - and she paid the hitchhiker to distract the trucker. And now we find that she's at it again, paying a prostitute named Senta (Christina Schmidt) to do another dirty deed.... to sleep with Jacques Alphan. Brigitte works at OKF and is sabotaging Jacques to climb the ladder.

Senta wants a bonus for this job. Brigitte agrees to her terms

Setting her plan in motion, Brigitte brings the paperwork to Jacques on a call girl. She is to be set up with one of OKF's new clients - standard procedure. Of course, this call girl is Senta and she'll be used to set up Jacques in a compromising situation.

We next find Jacques drunk and being led by Senta up a narrow staircase to a hotel room.

According to plan, Senta brings Jacques into the hotel room.

Brigitte has checked in to the room next door and is listening intently by the wall.

Senta takes off her clothes while Jacques admires the view from the bed.

Brigitte listens and is happy to hear that they're having sex. Everything is going perfectly.

After sex, once Jacques has fallen asleep, Senta knocks lightly on the wall. This alerts Brigitte to come over with the camcorder.

Senta lets her know that she's given Jacques a sleeping pill. So he's definitely not waking up.

Brigitte: Alright. Let's get to work.

Senta: What do I do?

Brigitte: Everything you know how to do with a man.

Senta: Even the Cambodian Wheelbarrow?

Brigitte: I don't care. I just want it to look real.

Afterwards. Brigitte pays Senta and leaves.

Jacques has paid a trucker to dump OKF's toxic waste illegally, and the trucker decided to dump its payload at a cemetery.

Three female zombies rise from their grave - Catherine (the bride from the farmhouse) and the two girls who died drinking milkshakes.

Valerie (Laurence Mercier) is Jacques' wife. She is cheating on him with another man and is preparing for his arrival. The three zombie women stroll through the front door.

Valerie is killed when one of the zombies stomps its stilleto heel through her eye. They carry her body behind the couch.

Brigitte is questioned by the police.

After he leaves, Brigitte fondles in preparation of what she's about to do next.

Brigitte tries to seduce Christian, one of OKF's chemists. Being a man of science, he'll have none of her shenanigans: "You're plumb out of your head! How many people have seen your breasts... exposed!? Look at yourself. It looks like an ad for a bra!"

While the scientist talks to the police on the phone, Brigitte shows him some legs. After, she reveals that she knows that Valerie was killed with a stiletto through the eye - and that he was having an affair with her.

Later, Brigitte pays a visit to Jacques.

She tells Jacques that shows knows everything - his theft of the company, his illegal waste disposal, and so on.

Brigitte removes her clothing. They don't realize the three zombie women are watching from the window.

The zombie girls lurk in the indoor pool.

After sex, Brigitte climbs off of Jacques and goes to take a shower.

The zombies lie in wait.

While Brigitte showers, Jacques is killed by the zombies.

Brigitte goes to the pool and sees Jacques floating in the water.

She reaches for his head.

Brigitte is horrified to find that Jacques is dead.

Christian lies awake - his skin damaged by the toxic waste. He starts to put the pieces together: the death of Valerie, the toxic waste dumped on a cemetery.... Christian gets up and goes to the police.

Sonia, the prostitute we met at the start of the film, is out turning tricks when she's attacked by the zombies.

The zombies gag Sonia and drag her home.

She's thrown onto the bed.

The zombies remove their gowns. One zombie (undead Catherine) grabs a sword mounted on the wall. Sonia is then impaled in the vagina.

Christian joins forces with the police inspector and Ingrid Schwartz (Cornélia Wilms), an attorney hired by OKF. They arrive at Sonia's place, but it's too late.

Ingrid recoils in horror. The inspector leans over Sonia's body.

The inspector reads a message scrawled in blood on the sheets - "you died where you sinned".

Christian's pregnant wife is having a panic attack.

Christian tries to calm her down by taking her clothes off and throwing her in the shower.

It works at first. She starts to calm down. But Christian touched her with his hand infected with the toxic waste. It causes her to deliver their baby - which looks like a pile of undead goo.

Brigitte is getting the hell out of town - things have gotten out of hand. She has three passengers with her - the three zombie girls. But they turn out to not be zombies after all - just Catherine and the two milkshake girls. They were all in on it to get rich. But their car wrecks and explodes on the way out of town. THE END

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I can certainly appreciate the massive amount of sleaze, and also the cool horror vibe that permeates many of these scenes.  But its big downfall is that it really isn't a zombie movie - perhaps technically more a drama than horror film.  Indeed, the zombies turn out to just be girls taking part in a ridiculously elaborate get rich scheme. Much of the film is taken up with plotting and scheming, like it's an episode of Dynasty and not a Euro-horror movie.  It's also rather confusing - the purpose behind much of the actions in this film are often hard to discern.  Once you figure out why they're disposing of the toxic waste, you'll then have to understand why the fake zombie girls would want to kill Valerie, and why and how could Catherine and the milkshake girls fake their own deaths.... so many plot holes, so many head scratchers.  But I suppose if you just let it go and don't bother to try and connect the dots, it's a pretty raunchy and fun zombie movie (even though there's no actual zombies).

Laura Clair was a prolific French actress, starring in over seventy exploitation films from 1977 over the next ten years.  This was actually her last film.  That means Clair's massive filmography ends with her final scene as a dead body just impaled in the vagina.  What a way to go out!

Anthea Wyler is great as the conniving Joan Collins style bitch. She's a compelling screen presence - and I was suprised to find this is her only film credit.  

Christina Schmidt is another actress who counts this as their only IMDb credit. 

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 7/10