"Living Dead Girl" is the second single from Rob Zombie

Rob Zombie

Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...

's solo debut Hellbilly Deluxe

Hellbilly Deluxe

* Danny Lohner - Additional Guitar on Meet the Creeper.* Tommy Lee - Drums on Meet the Creeper.-Chart positions:AlbumSingles...

. It was named after Jean Rollin

Jean Rollin

Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...

's 1982 film. The line, "Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?" in the beginning of the song is from the trailer of the film, Lady Frankenstein

Lady Frankenstein

Lady Frankenstein is a 1971 Italian horror film directed by Mel Welles. It stars Joseph Cotten, Rosalba Neri , Mickey Hargitay and Paul Müller...

. The music in the beginning of the song is taken from the trailer of the Wes Craven

Wes Craven

Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, particularly slasher films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the...

 film, The Last House on the Left

The Last House on the Left (1972 film)

The Last House on the Left is a 1972 horror film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Sean S. Cunningham.The story is inspired by the 1960 Swedish film The Virgin Spring, directed by Ingmar Bergman, which in turn is based on the 13th century Swedish ballad "Töres döttrar i Wänge"...

. In this song, Zombie sings, "Goldfoot's machine creates another fiend so beautiful they make you kill". This relates to the villain played by Vincent Price in the 1965 film Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine is a 1965 American International Pictures film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart and Deborah Walley...

and the 1966 film Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs is a 1966 Italian spy-spoof film directed by Mario Bava and starring Vincent Price, Fabian, Francesco Mulé, Laura Antonelli and the Italian comedy team of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia....

. Also, he sings "Operation Filth they love to love the wealth of an SS whore making scary sounds." This is possibly a reference to the notorious 1974 film Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS

Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS is a 1975 Nazi exploitation film produced in the USA. The film was directed by Don Edmonds, produced by David F. Friedman and written by Jonah Royston.- Plot :...

.

The song also appears on Rob Zombie's Past, Present & Future

Past, Present & Future

Lyrics1 Richard Raymond Finch, Harry Wayne Casey2 Lionel B. Richie, Ronald LaPread, Walter Orange, Milan Williams, Thomas McClary, William King3 Jeffrey Hyman, John Cummings, Douglas Colvin, Thomas Erdelyi...

, the greatest hits album The Best of Rob Zombie, and a remix is contained on American Made Music to Strip By

American Made Music to Strip By

-Personnel:* Rob Zombie - Vocals, Lyricist, Producer, Art Direction* Scott Humphrey - Producer* Frank Gryner - Additional Engineering on Tracks 6 & 9* Riggs - Guitar* Blasko - Bass* Tempesta - Drums-Remixing:* Charlie Clouser - Tracks 1, 4, & 11...

. The original mix was featured in both Bride of Chucky

Bride of Chucky

Bride of Chucky is a 1998 American comedy horror film directed by Chinese director Ronny Yu. It is the fourth entry in the Child's Play series. The film stars Jennifer Tilly and Brad Dourif...

and Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an American director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author. He is a two time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk, both of which were also nominated for Best Picture, and won the...

's Psycho

Psycho (1998 film)

Psycho is a 1998 American horror film produced and directed by Gus Van Sant for Universal Pictures, a remake of the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock...

remake, appearing on the album of the latter, the "Naked Exorcism Mix" appeared on the The Crow: Salvation Soundtrack

The Crow: Salvation (album)

The soundtrack to the third in the Crow film series, The Crow: Salvation album is once again compiled and produced by Jeff Most. As with the soundtrack to The Crow: City of Angels, Salvation includes an otherwise unavailable cover version by Hole: this time of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby...

in 2000. The song was covered by Sinus Giddy for The Electro-Industrial Tribute to Rob Zombie

The Electro-Industrial Tribute to Rob Zombie

The Electro-Industrial Tribute to Rob Zombie is a tribute album completely dedicated to Heavy metal musician Rob Zombie. It contains the original song "Dealt With" inspired by Rob Zombie's music.-Track listing:...

 in 2002. Also a version of the song is played in a club in the TV show Angel

Angel (TV series)

Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...

, while the character Faith tears apart a dance club. The sleeve for the CD single features an image of Rob Zombie's wife, Sheri Moon

Sheri Moon

Sheri Lyn Skurkis is an American actress and fashion designer. She legally changed her name to Sheri Moon and later Sheri Moon Zombie after she married her longtime boyfriend Rob Zombie. She has been described as a "scream queen".-Personal life:Moon was raised in Connecticut and graduated from...

.

A trance remix of the song also featured on the English trailer for the film Day Watch

Day Watch

Day Watch , is a 2006 Russian dark fantasy action film marketed as "the first film of the year", opened in theatres across Russia on January 1, 2006, the U.S. on June 1, 2007 and the UK on October 5, 2007. It is a sequel to the 2004 film Night Watch, featuring the same cast...

 in late 2007.

Music video

The music video for "Living Dead Girl" derives its imagery from a 1920 silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, with Zombie in the role of Caligari, and the eponymous girl in the place of Cesare the Somnambulist. The video imitates the appearance of aged, silent films, using intertitle

Intertitle

In motion pictures, an intertitle is a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action, at various points, generally to convey character dialogue, or descriptive narrative material related to, but not necessarily covered by, the material photographed.Intertitles...

s and artificially grainy and jumping film. Like Caligari, it also uses black and white film that has been tinted

Film colorization

Film colorization is any process that adds color to black-and-white, sepia or monochrome moving-picture images. It may be done as a special effect, or to modernize black-and-white films, or to restore color films...

 sepia, aqua, and violet for expressionistic effect. The video was directed by both Joseph Kahn

Joseph Kahn

Joseph Kahn is an American music video, advertising, and feature film director.-Early life:Kahn was born in Jersey Village, Texas, a suburb of Houston. He is of Korean ancestry. He spent part of his childhood growing up in Livorno, Italy until his family moved to Texas...

 and Rob Zombie.

Personnel

• Tom Baker - Mastering
• Paul DeCarli - Additional Programming
• Frank Gyner - Additional Engineering
• Scott Humphrey
  Scott Humphrey
  Scott Humphrey is a Canadian record producer and mix engineer. He began his music career as a keyboard player and programmer. He is best known for his work with multiplatinum recording artist Rob Zombie and has co-written, co-produced and mixed all of his records up until 2007's Zombie Live...
  
   - Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Programming
• Chris Lord-Alge
  Chris Lord-Alge
  Chris Lord-Alge is a mixer who has worked on various albums. He is the brother of Tom Lord-Alge, another audio engineer. Chris Lord-Alge is known for his extreme use of dynamic range compression in both hardware and software plug-in versions....
  
   - Additional Mixing
• Blasko
  Rob Nicholson (musician)
  Rob "Blasko" Nicholson is a Heavy metal bassist who was born on November 24, 1969. His influences include the metal bands Iron Maiden, Motörhead, and Corrosion of Conformity...
  
   - Bass
• Riggs
  Mike Riggs
  Mike Riggs, a.k.a. Riggs, is a heavy-metal guitarist born April 23, 1971 in Ozark, Arkansas. Highlights in career include his guitar work for Rob Zombie's first two solo albums and currently his skills as a guitarist, vocalist, and producer for Scum of the Earth.-Career history:His career as a...
  
   - Guitar
• Tempesta
  John Tempesta
  John Tempesta is a heavy metal drummer who has worked several bands including: Exodus, Testament and White Zombie. He also played with former White Zombie singer Rob Zombie as a solo artist and served as drum technician for heavy metal band Anthrax earlier in his career...
  
   - Drums
• Rob Zombie
  Rob Zombie
  Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...
  
  - Vocals, Lyrics, Artwork
• Sheri Moon Zombie - Living Dead Girl

Charts

Chart (1999)	Peak Position
Mainstream Rock Tracks	7
Modern Rock Tracks	22