Living Dead Girl (1982), aka La Morte Vivante
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director: Jean Rollin
(spoilers)

Only a French guy could invent an atmospheric gore film with serious
lesbian overtones. A beautiful heiress is revived from the dead via
the mechanism of a toxic waste spill in her family crypt.
Unfortunately for the clumsy gentlemen present, our heroine's
fingernails have continued to grow during her sepulchral snore,
making them the perfect instruments to gouge the human flesh which
she now craves.  Thoughtfully, the deserted tomb is luminated with
flaming bracketed torches so we can get a good view of her embarkment
upon the usual zombie rampage. Though unlike most cimematic zombies,
she has perfect skin and is naked a lot.

The supporting characters include an American couple, the female of
which is overbearing and self-righteous and the male of which is
Whipped and cranky. Hmm... I wonder why Europeans always portray
Americans as being obnoxious, displaying complete oblivion and
disregard for local customs and mores... At any rate, the audience
hopes throughout several scenes that curiosity will kill the nosey
American feline.

These are a few of my favorite things:
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-juxtaposition of explicit gore with haunting atmospheric scenes

-rare point of view from the perspective of the undead

-jugular blood spurting rhythmically on tits (woohoo!)

-tasty ending

Some criticisms of the film: 
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-melodramatic acting and slow pacing; aloof acting of the female
 leads

-once our heroine regains her voice, she doesn't shut up, and laments
 about what a drag it is to be alive, how she should really be dead,
 and how it is wrong to eat others, blah blah blah, thus dragging the
 film down. Her best friend is bringing her all the blood she can
 slurp without her having to lift a fingernail, but all she can do is
 bellyache.

-too much screaming throughout the film

-bad French countryside ho-down

Overall
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Certainly worth seeing if you are into gore. Perhaps worth seeing
if you happen to be into the lesbian vampire genre.