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The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
A chemical leak causes a zombie outbreak amid the picturesque landscapes of the Lake District, in this superbly chilling undead classic.
Director: Jorge Grau
Overview
George and Edna are out driving in the English countryside when they run into some awful trouble with a murderous zombie. It seems that experiments with a new pesticide on local farmland have been awakening the dead and turning them into ravenous, blood-hungry cannibals. George and Edna try to raise the alarm about the impending danger, but will the authorities believe such an unusual story?
One of the few zombie films to emerge from European cinema before George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead reinvigorated the genre in the late ‘70s, this Spanish-Italian co-production was shot in numerous genuine locations around North West England, including Barnes Hospital in Cheadle. The films copious gore scenes amid British scenery make for an incongruous viewing experience, given UK cinema’s tame standards at the time, and led to it later becoming associated with the ‘Video Nasty’ furore of the early 1980s. Its reappraisal in recent years, including championing from the likes of Edgar Wright, has since cemented its reputation as one of the finest of all non-Romero zombie flicks. The film has also been known by the alternative titles Let Sleeping Corpses Lie and Don't Open the Window.
Contains strong violence and gore
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