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tonight's feature: The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (1974) on Shudder
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (also known as Let Sleeping Corpses Lie and 14 other titles) is a cult classic 70s Spanish-Italian horror movie with some fresh, flesh-hungry zombies that just might be the most quintessential zombie flick ever. Our hero, anti-authoritarian hippy George accidentally meets Edna after she backs over his motorcycle at a gas station. He guilts her into driving him to his destination in a nearby town. They bicker and get lost. George stops near a cemetery to ask for directions. He sees a large machine in a field. It turns out the Ministry of Agriculture are using experimental ultra-sonic radiation to kill all the insects for miles, inadvertently bringing the dead back to life.
While Edna waits at the car, she is attacked by the undead. More people get attacked, some people are eaten, but the cops eventually think George and Edna are a drug-addled hippy satanist cult. "Looks like a pretty typical case of satanists holding black masses" says one. George figures out that the root cause is the Ministry of Agriculture machine and shows up to destroy it. They think he's crazy and flee the scene while he yells out "Come back! We're all in danger!" Indeed, if the zombies won't get you, the cops probably will. The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue may seem pretty dated in 2022 but it hit all the right notes with this 1970s kid. Probably better than 90% of all the horror films I've watched in the last few years. 9 zombies feasting on your entrails out of 10.
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