The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Gets very boring, but be patient....
Summary: 3 Stars
...because at the 45-50 minute mark the movie does pick up a good amount.
First off let me say do not I repaet do not pay $30 or more for this.
There has been a set released called" Fright Pack-The walking dead" and features 6 Zombie flicks and they are City of the Living Dead, Let the Sleeping Corpses Lie ,Dead Heat, House by the Cemetary and Hell of the Living Dead.
Now let me get to the review:
1- The plot: is quit good but they only problem is there is to much dialogue and this film does get very boring and its hard to remain patient ,but please do so, the movie does pick up its pace quit a bit and you wont be dissapointed. The action gets started at about the 50 minute mark. Though they do show you at the 15 minute mark and the 30 minute mark one of the Zombies. Just be patient.
2- The gore- is there and it is very well done excpet for one part which is quit fake looking but its not really that bad. Gore hounds as myself will be satisfied i was.
3- The acting is very good, and the lead detective is a pisser and is funny as hell, not literally funny but he is always angry and its just fun to watch. The editing is also very good.
4-Zombies- This is a big factor for me the Zombies must be good in any flick or atleast convincable as the Zombies in this flick are excellently well done, they are not blue Zombies like Romeros and not dirty and Crusty and rotting like Fulcis, but very much looking like they do when they were burried with some blood on them as well as all them have red contacts which gives it a good look. These Zombies are slow, not incredibly slow but can move at a decent pace and are in much of a sense quit strong but not like human strong but more of to handle more than one your introuble.They walk very well and the looks on there face are very well done to, these Zombies are well done and in my opinion are way better than Romeros in all of his flick sand just as good as Fulci'sZombie featured in Zombi2 and The Beyond ( if you saw the beyond, the Zombies at the end are similar in way to the one in Let sleeping corpses lie.
5- The atmosphere is very good and this is probably one, if notthe creepiest Zombie films to ever be made its frightening in its own way and can make you get into it.
6-the ending , well not that great in a sense I wont be a spoiler but what i will say is it just ends out of no where i didnt expect it to end, and for that i didnt like it, but there is one thing I did likeI wont say it as its nothing major but its not one of those happy endinggs, i guess.
Overall this is a top notch Zombie movie,and the reason for the 3 stars is for the lack of action for the first 50 minutes and I wish there would have been some more scenes featuring Zombies cause when they are shown eating or killing or in action they are so well done and so creepy its a shame with more Zombie actiuon a better more action filled pace thismovie would be better than all of Romeros and as equally good as Fulcis.
Let the Sleeping Corpses Lie is amust for any Zombie fan to have, and a true fan I think will very much so enjoy this. Just like I said dont shut it off be patient very patient it gets quit good.
Movie Review: Creepy thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent movie. I saw this when it came out in 1974. It was called "Don't Open The Window" here in the States. This is a movie that I've been searching for a long time and add it to my collection.
What else can I say that everyone else has written in their reviews. A young couple trying to get the police to understand that it's zombies that are killing people, a hard headed detective who thinks they are the killers.
My favorite part was the cemetery scene where a cop gets his legs smashed by a tombstone throwing zombie and devoured. That scene was real nasty. I would have hated to meet my doom like that cop.
I give this film 2 THUMBS UP!!
Movie Review: Just this side of unwatchable.
Summary: 1 Stars
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Jorge Grau, 1974)
I have an ear for dialogue reminiscent of Beethoven during his last days. And I know it. So when I say I could write a better script than that of an actual movie, trust me, that's not meant as a compliment.
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (aka The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue) has one of the worst scripts ever written. I kid you not. It's horribly, horribly unintentionally funny. Not that it had much to build on, with the premise of the film being that the dead are returning to life thanks to sonic radiation. But really, some incredibly stupid scripts have been given the royal treatment and resulted in some surprisingly good movies. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is not one of those movies.
George (Ray Lovelock, recently seen in the long-running TV series Incantesimo) is an antiques dealer who's just bought a house in the country. While stopped for gas, his bike is run over by young, beautiful Edna (Cristina Galbo of Riot in a Women's Prison fame), who just happens to be headed the same way. The two of them immediately come under suspicion from the local police sergeant (western movie staple Arthur Kennedy, who turned to making bad horror after 1960; his presence alone should tip you off to the quality of this film) after George tries to run scientists killing bugs with sonic radiation off his land and Edna claims to have been attacked by a man whose description fits a bum who dies a week previous. Well, needless to say, despite George's memorable warning that "the dead only walk in very bad paperback novels, love," nothing could be further from the truth. (The living dead don't actually get to the Manchester morgue until very late in the film, but don't let that stop you.) The first half of this ninety-two minute dog is spent building up the characters, except they're all one-dimensional stereotypes, so there's not much to build up. The second half is spent with various characters trying to avoid the clutches of zombies in various dark places. And when I say dark, I mean dark like "makes David Fincher films look like Sunday in the Park with George" dark, as in you can't bloody well see anything dark. Which, actually, may be a good point, since what you can see when the camera has a bit of light to work with is so thoroughly uninspiring.
It's actually sillier than Tombs of the Blind Dead. The only reason it's not getting zero stars is because it's marginally better than The Day After Tomorrow. *
Movie Review: Let Viewers Sleep--Dull Film Without Action
Summary: 1 Stars
*Plot/ending analyzed*
After reading so many positive reviews of this film, I went through an extensive search in an attempt to find this rare film, well, suffice it to say, it was a complete waste of time. This boring rarity, should have never seen the light of day, it is a terrible film which attempts to classify itself as a "horror" or "zombie film". It takes one hour for us to even see any zombies in the film and when we do, they are so slow and boring, that we don't even care. The zombies are of the typical variety, very dim-witted and slow and yet at other times they use their own blood to invent other zombies, pick a door open with a key , throw a headstone at a policeman, etc, etc.
The lead actor is played by a moronic hippie who only whines instead of actually killing any of the zombies, if he were as tough with action as he was with words, then this mess would have ended a lot quicker but no one believes that there are any zombies. It's a premise that could have been very interesting if the director could have created a viable story that didn't bore us to death. The washed up, drunk-o actor Arthur Kennedy (from "Lawrence of Arabia" fame- he was the journalist who remarks on Lawrence's annihilation of a Turkish rearguard by saying his memorable line: "Here, let me take your god damned picture!") plays a cop who makes no sense and he goes as far as shooting the lead actor! Call that absurd, it was actually quite a stupid scene.
The ending was typical, and the whole film had no plot what-so-ever, I would suggest to people that they avoid this mess. There's a bit of extras on the DVD, namely the has-been director recalling the "glory days" of the film, and this is even boring.
Movie Review: The living dead at Manchester Morgue.
Summary: 4 Stars
Or whatever title they like to use for this film is an excellent zombie film, it might be slow in the begining but it does get along during the second half of the film.
Jorge Grau who has an introduction during the start of the dvd who tells us to suffur profoundly while watching the film is Spanish used both british and american actors, he also used some other foriegn actors and whatever so it has an international cast and made the film in England. You can tell that he used the locations to great effect because the film is very atmospheric especialy that creepy scene when the male lead and the female protagonist escape from the zombies in the underground cemetery.
There seems to be an explanation to why the dead have been rising and eating the living and it seems that its coming from some farming equipment that spreads some pesticide, very weird and atmospheric film with nice gory scenes in it ,I highly recomend this to horror or zombie fans.