One of the better zombie movies out there
Added 9/5/2009
There's a lot of hype surrounding Let Sleeping Corpses Lie AKA The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue from both both ends of the spectrum. Some praise it as one of the greatest zombie movies ever made, others are equally comfortable dismissing it as "pointless drivel". Personally I've always felt somewhere in between with this one. While it certainly isn't without its flaws, it has a number of outstanding qualities such as the atmospere, cinematography, and the eerie soundtrack.
A new form of radiactive pesticide seems to have an additional effect besides killing insects: Raising the dead! A couple of traveling strangers find themselves in entangled in the mystery behind the phenomenon of the walking corpses all while trying to prove their innocence to a detective who is convinced they have something to do with it all.
The main drawback to Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is the buildup, which is dead slow. As mentioned, there is a lot of great cinematography and atmosphere that saves the movie from being a complete borefest, and once it actually gets down to business with the zombies the rest is a great, gory time.
To say that Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a great zombie movie isn't much of an endorsement. Where zombie movies are concerned, you have a handful of good ones in vast sea of complete, mind numbing garbage. That being said, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a great horror movie in general. Nothing new or groundbreaking by any means, but it is a good, dark, amospheric zombie movie that is actually memorable.
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Pointless Drivel
Added 9/2/2009
The only thing that distinguishes this mess of a movie from Ed Wood's amateurish flicks is the sporadically better cinematography... Story line is only marginally interesting with clumsy dialogue, inept pacing, and plot credibility holes you could drive a 13 Spd, 450 Hp, 17 ton Peterbilt flatbed through... with room to spare. Also lots of shameless steals from George Romero: ground camera angles and direction during first cemetery scene, the catatonic heroine almost a carbon copy of the girl in NOLD,.... etc etc etc.
What really gets annoying is the incessant electronic music (?) score with quavery oh-so-scary one note 'flying saucer noises' which were already passe by the 1950s. Even Arthur Kennedy embarrassingly chews the scenery; but what else can he do with the high-school level script and dialogue here?
This is ultimately the same old boring hack and slice bloody flick without any redeeming features whatsoever. Don't waste your time and money; stick to Romero.
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Great Zombie Flick!
Added 7/27/2009
What a refreshing movie! The story is different and the special effects are creepy as well. If you're tired of the same 'ol hack em and eat em movies - check this one out! Not to spoil or give any detail - but the eyes are super creepy! Atmospheric, dark, chilling sets. Highly recommend; a cut above the avergae for sure!
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slow...creepy...suspenseful...A CULT.
Added 7/15/2009
Back in 1979 as a 13 year old going to the movies you are bombarded by low buget horror fan-fair from all over, be it the U.S. or overseas. The point that most reviewers of this movie don't get is that it depends on your age and what you have been exposed to. Of course that as an adult you might find it slow and ridiculous but is is the slow pace that is suspensul and the creepy-ness that gets you; it has diologue and a premise like other movies that make it so ridiculous this embodies the point (zombie movies are totally outlandish) . A zombie movie is suppose to be crazy that is what makes it so ridiculous along with the effects and sound it retains that Italian/Spanish style of cinema that is not American that is why it is so striking. so I urge you to see it late at night around 2 a.m. on a hot summer night in agust or in the middle of feburary in the dead of winter, with a bunch of friends that are cult fanatics and who remember that 70's style that is so much talked about. enjoy.
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One of the best zombie movies ever made.
Added 6/26/2009
George Romero is the king of zombie movies, his three original films are hands down the most popular of the sub-genre. Very rarely does a zombie movie come along that rivals those films. This is that movie.
The Living Dead of Manchester Morgue AKA Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a creepy atmospheric Zombie movie. Although slow at times the film is never boring, it sucks you in and has a very grim climax.
Radiation causes the dead to rise in a small town, George and Edna are caught in the middle of it all while the cops investigate a local murder. Can they convince the cops there is more to this murder before it is too late?
Blue Underground is currently the best dvd company around, they've finally given this movie the treatment it deserves with a two disc SE. Interviews with the director, actor, fx maestro Giannetto De Rossi, and much more.
Be sure to add this one to your collection!
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One of the better zombie movies out there
Added 9/5/2009
There's a lot of hype surrounding Let Sleeping Corpses Lie AKA The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue from both both ends of the spectrum. Some praise it as one of the greatest zombie movies ever made, others are equally comfortable dismissing it as "pointless drivel". Personally I've always felt somewhere in between with this one. While it certainly isn't without its flaws, it has a number of outstanding qualities such as the atmospere, cinematography, and the eerie soundtrack.
A new form of radiactive pesticide seems to have an additional effect besides killing insects: Raising the dead! A couple of traveling strangers find themselves in entangled in the mystery behind the phenomenon of the walking corpses all while trying to prove their innocence to a detective who is convinced they have something to do with it all.
The main drawback to Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is the buildup, which is dead slow. As mentioned, there is a lot of great cinematography and atmosphere that saves the movie from being a complete borefest, and once it actually gets down to business with the zombies the rest is a great, gory time.
To say that Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a great zombie movie isn't much of an endorsement. Where zombie movies are concerned, you have a handful of good ones in vast sea of complete, mind numbing garbage. That being said, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a great horror movie in general. Nothing new or groundbreaking by any means, but it is a good, dark, amospheric zombie movie that is actually memorable.
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Pointless Drivel
Added 9/2/2009
The only thing that distinguishes this mess of a movie from Ed Wood's amateurish flicks is the sporadically better cinematography... Story line is only marginally interesting with clumsy dialogue, inept pacing, and plot credibility holes you could drive a 13 Spd, 450 Hp, 17 ton Peterbilt flatbed through... with room to spare. Also lots of shameless steals from George Romero: ground camera angles and direction during first cemetery scene, the catatonic heroine almost a carbon copy of the girl in NOLD,.... etc etc etc.
What really gets annoying is the incessant electronic music (?) score with quavery oh-so-scary one note 'flying saucer noises' which were already passe by the 1950s. Even Arthur Kennedy embarrassingly chews the scenery; but what else can he do with the high-school level script and dialogue here?
This is ultimately the same old boring hack and slice bloody flick without any redeeming features whatsoever. Don't waste your time and money; stick to Romero.
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Great Zombie Flick!
Added 7/27/2009
What a refreshing movie! The story is different and the special effects are creepy as well. If you're tired of the same 'ol hack em and eat em movies - check this one out! Not to spoil or give any detail - but the eyes are super creepy! Atmospheric, dark, chilling sets. Highly recommend; a cut above the avergae for sure!
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