The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Jorge Grau
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Actor: Arthur Kennedy, Cristina Galbo, Fernando Hilbeck, Jose Lifante, Raymond LovelockDirector: Jorge Grau
Brand: WEA DES Moines Video
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 2015
Studio: Blue Underground
Product features:
- Two traveling companions, George (Ray Lovelock of AUTOPSY) and Edna (Christine Galbo of THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN), come across a small town infested with the living dead that are satisfying their cannibalistic hunger on anyone they come across. Discovering that an agricultural machine using radiation waves is at the root of all the havoc, George and Edna fight for survival and their innocence as
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DVD Review: A green planet may mean the dead will walk the earth!
Summary: 5 Stars
Now if you are a horror fan or a zombie fan, this film definately fits the bill. This takes place in the rural parts of England, mostly outside of Manchester. The premise is based around a newly introduced couple, one heading to visit her sister and the other a salesman in antiquities who mistakenly meet when the woman puts the salesman's motorcycle in shop after hitting it at a gas station. The two, taking trips to the outskirts of Manchester, head out together to their destinations, soon find that all is not well in the rural farm lands of Manchester. Odd attacks that lead to the deaths of folks have occurred and the leads are eventually placed in situations of life and death unaware of who is the murderer since it appears the murderer is mistaken for someone that is already dead. The lead male, however, soon concludes that an expirmental and environmentally friendly agricultural tractor using magnetic and radio waves to kill the insect pests of crops may in some way be causing the recently dead to rise from the grave.
A cat and mouse game begins between the local police chief, played by the splendid character actor Arthur Kennedy (Lawrence of Arabia), and the salesman who continues his rants about living dead, irresponsible government science, and having been at the wrong place at the wrong time during the deaths of constables. This leads to a number of scenes of suspense, horror, and unfortunate calamity. With the word of only the salesman, the police scoff at him and his rants and begin to believe with a great amount of circumstantial evidence that maybe he is the guilty one. When the small number of zombies do attack around the epicenter of the agricultural machine, they leave no one alive to validate his facts and soon the salesman finds himself wanted by the police.
This movie is a classic for the genre. The screenplay takes a great deal of care making the zombie epicenter a very localized occurrence. This makes the film feel much more realistic (for a subject that is supernatural). Having a lone survivor of a morgue attack at a cemetary or a hospital have no one backing their stories with the only evidence being recently autopsied dead bodies appearing defiled by the witness and doctors or morticians killed is ingenious. This is no apocalyptic film. This is pure horror, localized and limited to a small section of a small village.
The movie does have some flaws, though minor in detail. Some of the dialogue is dated (Arthur Kennedy's police chief rant about hippies was classic). The gratuitous B-movie blood and boobs crowd seem to get an unexplained full frontal nude woman in a wig run across the streets of Manchester for no apparent reason at the beginning of the film. I actually still don't know what the point of that was especially when the director could have gotten some non-gratuitious nudity in the film later for such a crowd. There were a few contrivances that could have been tightened up. And a tacked on ending was not needed and should have been dropped completely from the film; in the documentary on disk 2, the lead actor even says this stating the film could have been ended a minute earlier at a more brilliant conclusion.
The DVD has many extras and is definately a nice package. For the film, and its genre, it most certainly is rated 5 out of 5 stars.
Description of The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Two-Disc Special Edition)
The Epic Zombie Shocker Returns As You've Never Seen It Before!Two traveling companions, George (Ray Lovelock of AUTOPSY) and Edna (Christine Galbo of THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN), come across a small town infested with the "living dead" that are satisfying their cannibalistic hunger on anyone they come across. Discovering that an agricultural machine using radiation waves is at the root of all the havoc, George and Edna fight for survival and their innocence as they are pursued by a relentless detective (Arthur Kennedy of THE ANTICHRIST and FANTASTIC VOYAGE) who is convinced they are responsible for the ghoulish acts of violence plaguing the countryside. All this leads to a gruesome showdown at the Manchester Morgue - an ending that knots a horrifying twist in the lives of all involved!
Also know as LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE and DON'T OPEN THE WINDOW, this carefully constructed and beautifully photographed tale of the undead roaming the English countryside comes from acclaimed Spanish Director Jorge Grau. Now fully restored and remastered in High Definition from the original camera negative, Blue Underground is proud to present THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE in this 2-Disc Special Edition bursting at the seams with exclusive new Extras!
One of the best zombie shockers of the 1970s, this Spanish-Italian coproduction (also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue and Don't Open the Window, among other titles) is a real international affair. Inspired by George Romero's genre-shattering American hit Night of the Living Dead, it was shot in England by a Spanish director with a largely British cast, and supplemented by Spanish zombies and American character actor Arthur Kennedy as a bitter Irish police detective (with only a hint of a brogue). He's investigating a sudden rash of violent murders (the work of Satanists, he's convinced) and closes in on a pair of newcomers to the sleepy Northern England town, longhaired antique dealer Ray Lovelock and his nervous traveling companion Christine Galbó. Only they know the real culprits: newly deceased corpses, revived by agricultural experiments in ultrasonic radiation that are also turning newborns into vicious little monsters. Director Jorge Grau delivers all the stumbling zombies and gory flesh feasts you could hope for in a 1974 movie, but more importantly he creates the rare zombie thriller that manages to be both scary and smartly done. Some of the twists are a bit more far-fetched than others (why does dabbing blood on the eyes of long-dead cadavers magically bring them to life, and how would a zombie even know to try?), but it's a minor quibble in the face of the startling blood frenzy and Grau's satisfying dark dramatic twists.
The DVD also features an introduction and a 20-minute interview with Grau ("I hope you will suffer profoundly," he jokes in the opening), as well as a gallery of posters and stills, TV ads, and radio spots. --Sean Axmaker
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