Steineded
How sad is this?
Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Verity Robins
Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
MartinHafer
This Italian movie was filmed in the UK and features mostly dubbed actors. However, Arthur Kennedy provides his own voice...and that's a real shame! THis is because you assume he's supposed to be Irish but his accent comes and goes...and often he just sounds like an American. It also is a movie with 16 different titles!The film is set in a rural part of the UK. Some folks from the Department of Agriculture have deployed a machine that kills bugs by using sonic waves or the like. However, folks don't realize it also causes gestating babies to be born evil and the dead become flesh- eating zombies. Some people witness this but, of course, the police are too stupid to listen. In fact, no one seems to learn anything from all this and it ends of a very downbeat note!The film is a mixed bag. On one hand some of the characters act like inexplicably like idiots. For example, in one scene Martin is being killed while his girlfriend just stands there screaming (a bad movie cliché) and when the zombie comes after her, her reaction is unintentionally funny! There's also a stupid scene where a guy can't start his car and his girlfriend is driving off...and he never bothers to honk the horn, just yell! Duh. Despite people being dummies now and then, the film IS pretty exciting. The blood, gore and other effects are excellent for the early 1970s and the movie does have a very scary aura about it. Worth watching...just make sure NOT to think too much while watching this gore-fest....and it really IS awfully gory.
skybrick736
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a film that really snuck up on me turning out to be a marvelous little zombie film. The story is very intricate with multiple characters being privy to scenes and spots and different ways. Unsuspecting to me too was the contrast in different feels and atmospheres of the film. Normally when I watch an English film I can tell its English, Italian from Spanish and so on. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie blends all these euro horror elements together to create an amazing unique setting and mood. The mood was doomful to boot, the zombies were unsettling and the base music was chilling. I loved the two main leads, George and Edna, they were spectacular and had great character development. The flow at times was halted with choppy edits and a couple unnecessary scenes but otherwise there is nothing major to hate. If you're a fan of Night of the Living Dead, which I can tell Jorge Grau is, you'll end up really enjoying this movie. I give it a solid 8/10 rating.
gavin6942
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh by chemical pesticides being used by area farmers.That description is what IMDb says is happening. But that is off the mark. First, there is not much of a "chase". Second, there are no hippies (even if one guy has shaggy hair). Third, any murders in this film are not really Manson-style. Lastly, unless I misunderstood, the farmers were using some sort of sonic waves, not pesticides.But anyway, a fantastic Italian-Spanish-British horror film with plenty of good colors and a fun plot. Some of it makes no sense. The eyeball-eating babies are odd. The ability of zombies to teleport across town is a bit bizarre. But this only seems to add to the fun of it all.No matter what title you see this under (it seems to have at least a dozen), it has to be among the better zombie films of the 1970s. Perhaps even of all-time, but that might be a stretch. At least better than almost anything in the last decade.
Scott LeBrun
Jorge Grau's "The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" (just one of the titles given to this classic) can rightfully take its place as one of the best zombie films ever made. It's an Italian & Spanish co-production set in England, and makes wonderful, memorable use of many striking locations. It's genuinely suspenseful, effectively gory, and has some absolutely great set pieces.The energetic Ray Lovelock and the gorgeous Cristina Galbo play George and Edna, two people who meet by chance and become reluctant travelling companions. As they near their destination, they start to encounter the dead who have come back to life. This is possibly the result of an agricultural device using ultrasonic rays to eliminate insects. George and Edna have a hard time as it is struggling to stay alive, but what makes matters worse is that a grumpy, conservative police inspector (veteran actor Arthur Kennedy) gets one look at them and assumes them to be Manson family type hippies who are responsible for the entire problem.Grau does an excellent job at slowly easing the viewer into the horrors to come, but once they do they're most enjoyable. The atmosphere of the film is just intoxicating, especially in locations such as the cemetery and the crypt. And speaking of the crypt, the best sequence of all in the film takes place there, as George and Edna try to escape while trying to hold off the zombies. The zombies themselves are lumberers in the classic tradition and look suitably intimidating, although makeup on them is minimal; the gore is saved for when they catch up to their victims. Fernando Hilbeck has a wonderful look to him as the very first of the zombies that we see. The acting from the leads is very good, with Lovelock and Galbo making for engaging protagonists and Kennedy creating the kind of character whom the audience will just love to hate. Giorgio Trestini as hapless police officer Craig, Jeannine Mestre as Edna's drug addict sister Katie, and Vicente Vega as the concerned Dr. Duffield likewise impress.All of them help to make this a richly rewarding horror film that builds and builds up to a fiery finale at a hospital and a nicely satisfying coda. This is just as good as anything done by George A. Romero and comes highly recommended to any lover of and newcomer to zombie cinema.Nine out of 10.
