The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

1975 "They tampered with nature—now they must pay the price …"
6.7| 1h35m| R| en
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When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.

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Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Ploydsge just watch it!
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
gilligan1965 I saw this when I was a child, and, I remember liking it!?!? Upon watching this again and seeing the nude woman running in the city, I thought, 'Wow...this is going to be great!' :)However...it isn't! I'm trying to figure out who's the most dangerous in this movie - the hot-chick who can't drive a car or walk across stones in a creek; the drug-freak woman who doesn't aide her husband as he's being attacked; or...the ritualistic-zombie reanimating the dead!?!?I love how that shotgun blast somewhat messed-up that female zombie's 'Englishly-swell' hairdo at 57:44!?!?Then...George; the hot-chick; and, the rookie cop figure it all out - must'a been those pest control blokes with their radiation toy!?!? The rookie-cop tells George "maybe you'll think better of the police if I can pull this off!" Almost immediately, "Serpico" the rookie-cop, gets knocked-down by a cemetery gravestone thrown at him by a zombie!?!? I suppose that George will think even less, if anything at all, about the police after that foolishness! What does that cop say to others in Heaven when asked how he died - "Some dead guy threw a big rock at me!" And, what will go on his own gravestone..."I got killed by one of these!"After the rookie-cop is dead, lead zombie looks as if he's going-down on him at 1:02:58...what-the-hell!?!?At 1:04:13, they show the rookie-cop's body with what looks like what's left of his junk!?!? Was this movie made for a gay audience?Later, the Agricultural Department guys cannot fight-off a lone-man (George)?!? Then, the lone-man wants a ride with them!?!? Ha-ha-ha-ha! :D I can't stop laughing! :DThe doctor cuts off the zombie's right tit (GAY...AGAIN); then, he gets swung at with a hatchet from the right, but, the cut to his head is on the left!?!?The hospital staff at 1:25:25, after hearing screams, is as useless as the police and don't help!?!?At 1:25:52, the gallant police show up at the hospital...no, wait...it's George in a police car!?!? How did he get that? The cops must be at Dunkin' Donuts!Now...I'm sure that this is a 'Gay-Zombie" flick! Look at that zombie-sissy coming down the stairs at 1:26:22!?!?The hot-chick ends as a cooked zombie; and, George takes the blame and dies!?!?As great as he is, I just cannot believe that Arthur Kennedy did this movie!?!? Then, again, maybe he was in a financial slump and needed some cash!?!? A lot of great actors did questionable movies at times.At 1:28:16 after shooting George, Arthur Kennedy says what the once-mob-boss of Philadelphia, Nicky Scarfo, said after a killing about...'bringing someone back to life so he could kill him again.' Or, maybe Scarfo got it from this movie!?!?I wonder if this movie was ever on "Mystery Science Theater 3000!?!?" It certainly qualifies!Although the idea of using radiation to turn insects on one-another is a good concept, and, this movie 'could-have' been great...it's not! This has to be the WORST zombie movie ever made, NOTHING HAPPENS EXCEPT...A LOT OF NOTHING...but, at the drive-in in the 1970s when we were kids...it was o.k. - because we didn't understand gay-sh*t! I've nothing against gays, I just don't want to see it...at all!I want to see scary zombies; terrifying vampires; impressive monsters; and, nude women running in the streets! :) Remember woman 'streakers' back in the 1970s? AWESOME! :)
poe426 LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE is one of the earliest of the Romero-inspired zombie movies, and it's one of the better ones, at that; it's exceptionally well crafted, and the cinematography is close to Art House quality. the only complaint (and it's a minor one, to be sure) is that it gets off to a rather slow start- but, unlike all too many of these movies, it at least attempts to explain the phenomena (granted, the "explanation" may be a bit far-fetched, but we ARE talking about a zombie movie, after all). The scenes of violence are sometimes as graphic as anything you'll find in a Lucio Fulci movie, but what I found interesting was that the number of the living dead are kept to a minimum during the attacks; this makes the attacks seem much more INTIMATE than what we're used to- something most such movies fail to take into account (the filmmakers tend to overdo the attacks, with hordes of zombies trailing after the victims). Another big plus is the music: it's appropriately spooky.
fedor8 Already the intro to LSCL lets us in on a little secret: you the viewer are about to watch a tremendously dumb eco-horror. A dead bird on the road; pedestrians wearing face-masks; smoke rising out of various apertures; and a naked girl running through the streets of London. You read that right; I have no idea how this scene fits in with the movie's cretinous ecological message, but a pair of boobs is always welcome, under any circumstance, so I shall forgive them. You gotta love it when those sadistic exploitation flicks have a "relevant" socio-political message to convey. Brainwashed film buffs eat this stuff up, thinking/hoping it lends a movie importance and elevates it from the B-movie mud from where it tries so desperately but futilely to get out. The more intelligent viewer, however, recognizes the blatant stupidity of using a dumb zombie film as means of conveying political ideas. The baby-faced, effeminate blond hero makes an ass of himself right away; aside from his asocial behavior, he offers his dumb views on pollution and scientists – even telling a few men to stop their "dumb experiment" because he, the wise plucky hero with a high school diploma, knows all about ecology and the environment. In that sense he reminded me immediately of Robert Redford, another blond bird-brain, when in the 70s he tried to convince the scientific community that he understands solar energy better than they do! There is no arrogance like left-wing arrogance, especially in the deepest depths of Hollywood's horse-manure pseudo-intellectuality.This is how the self-righteous, cocky, effeminate, perpetually snarling hero responds to a snide anti-hippie remark about him going "back to nature" on a remote Pacific island: "Yes, and then I have to worry about the atomic fallout." Amazing. May I remind you: this paranoid idiot and chronic conspiracy-theorist is the movie's hero and "voice of reason".The left-winger who wrote this drivel forgot that chauvinism isn't politically-correct, however. (Never mind that political correctness didn't exist back then in its full "glory" as it does now.) The way the script treats the beautiful red-head is chauvinistic to the extreme. Wet and panicky, she tells the men that she'd been attacked by a strange-looking person, but the effeminate-faced hero refuses to believe her, treating her much as you would a child. I've seen little boys and drunken hobos who were taken more seriously when reporting UFO encounters to disbelieving B-movie folk. Even when the red-head's sister gets attacked by the zombie and he kills her husband, still nobody takes the red-head seriously! The detectives – faced with a bone-smashed corpse – snicker at her claims that she was attacked by a man who fits the description of her sister's attacker! It doesn't get any dumber than this. But this is only the beginning.Chief Inspector: "This might have been a sadist, who did this." Inspector's Assistant: "Or a lunatic."Ed Wood wouldn't have written it any "better". Rather than mere mortals being resurrected, I think the dead spirit of Ed Wood was brought to life in order to write yet another insipid script. A sadist IS a lunatic; I'd at least expect cops to know this. But these aren't any ordinary cops; they're dubbed Cockney B-Italian-movie cops: the dumbest there are. In fact, the Chief Inspector behaves like a Gestapo officer, and I do promise unintended laughs to anyone who watches his treatment of suspects. "The police are NEVER right!" says our eco-friendly left-wing rebel hero. Well, of course, cops in THIS kind of script can't even tie their own shoe-laces, let alone solve murder mysteries. Another scene worth mentioning is when the inspector – quite by chance (as if being clairvoyant) – walks into a photo shop, finds his suspect there, and comments on the photos as "evidence" that the red-head's sister killed her husband; too stupid for words: "You're all the same, people like you, with your long hair and faggot clothes, drugs, sex, every sort of filth… and you hate the police." (Actually, it's the writer who hates the police – and capitalist democracies, I should imagine.) The young rebel responds to this idiotic speech by doing the Nazi salute and saying "heil, Hitler!" No, I am not joking. At the latest here we find out that this dumb flick's writer isn't just a left-winger, but a bonafide Marxist misfit, and a buffoon to boot.Hitchcock was notorious for over-milking the innocent-man-accused-of-murder shtick, but at least there were no zombies running around in his movies, playing hide-and-seek with the police, and there was certainly no low-grade hippie counter-culture gobbledygook. The Chief Inspector and his cop posse miraculously manage to never be around when zombies are killing people, so he conveniently keeps showing up at the worst times and then blames the effeminate rebel; this series of astounding coincidences is more supernatural than any zombie resurrection."The dead don't walk, except in very bad paperback novels", our quasi-hippie effeminate hero says. Talk about a script shooting itself in the foot.Believe it or not, I haven't addressed even 10% of the nonsense that takes place in this astoundingly brainless movie. I've hit the 1000-word review limit, so if you want to find out the plethora of other garbage that goes on, watch it. The second half in particular is rather fast-paced: 2-3 very stupid things get said or done per minute. Make sure you don't miss out on the INCREDIBLY IDIOTIC ending: it will leave you speechless (unless you're a film-buff zombie, of course).However, as much as I would heartily recommend this dumb flick to the Cinematic Titanic and Rifftrax teams, I do very much commend the cameraman for the marvelous visual quality. The English countryside looks amazing, very 70s, and is worth the price of admission alone – or the few minutes spent downloading this turkey for free, as is the case with me.
callanvass I hate using the word overrated. It's very derogatory in my opinion, and sounds rather crass as well, so I'll use a more polite term. It's over- praised by Horror fans in my opinion. I actually thought this might end up being something special when I first started this one. It was very atmospheric and has a rather tense first zombie sighting, but then that's where the problems started with me. It moves like molasses. It's very slow moving, and my interest started to wane big time. I also had trouble getting invested into the two lead characters. Cristina Galbó;s whiny performance grated my nerves quickly. I found her to be very unsympathetic in my opinion. Ray Lovelock tries to play it all cool, but he was rather nonchalant and annoying. I didn't care for him at all. Arthur Kennedy is even worse. His performance as the inspector quickly tested my patience. His anger wasn't enjoyable to watch. Chill. The gore is decent, but nothing like you'd see in a lot of zombie flicks. The zombies themselves are actually pretty creepy; too bad the movie is so boringFinal Thoughts: This tries to rely on atmosphere, but it failed miserably. The slow pace, the grating characters, and overall lack of thrills sink this one. It seems to have a big cult following, so maybe it's just me…4/10