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Release Date: 19 August, 2003 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $17.98 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: Complete Cast (6 total) |
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie Reviews
Creepy Zombie Movie.
First Of All I would like to say to those who compare this movie to Luci Fulci ,and George Romero. I respect some of your opinions but you cannot compare one movie to this director ,and one to the other because these directors all have there individual talent! This movies is not even inspired by night of the living dead. In My opinion it is more artistic, Creative, and completely diffrent than most zombie movies. I truly recommend this movie It Really creeped me out, The musie was Creepy and the zombies were very strange. Enjoy The Individual Talent Of This Director I Highly Recommend This Movie.
Agricultural anxiety? Or sub-par zombie flick?
I was not familiar with this film until recently, when I viewed it under the title 'The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue', which I'll bet carries considerably more weight for our British friends across the Pond. It looked like yet another 'infamous' Italian horror film, so I settled in prepared for a freak show and a good time. I have to agree with one reviewer who noted the film is simply not worthy of the hype, not at all. There are some things going for it, namely some of the atmosphere, the English setting and location shooting and a little bit of zombie action.
I want to say there's something more to the whole story--that fancy new insecticide technology is inadvertently causing the dead to get up and walk about the English countryside--but I don't think it's there. Perhaps a comment on the farming industry in the UK? Methinks I'm thinking too much.
However, the film does a great job of nearly talking itself to death for a good forty minutes or so. And when we do get some zombie action, it's nothing great. Some very sick looking people with sub-par makeup waddle around before chewing on what look like sweet-meats from the local butcher, 'grossing' us out. Our protagonist, a 'strong, silent type' in a leather jacket with a commanding attitude (the early scenes in the gas station are plain funny in a badly dubbed (or seems-like-dubbed) clumsiness. The director gives us an amusing introduction, hoping we don't have a good time watching the film, presumably because it's supposed to disturb us but actually does much worse: bores us.
However, how can I fault Anchor Bay? They've done an excellent job cleaning up a 'cult' movie (don't even know how cult this is) that was unavailable for a long, long time. They always do a very reverent job on these movies, and it's admirable. Perhaps some big studios could learn a thing or two.
Recommended if you have to inspect every zombie flick out there (particularly Italian). But there are far better, namely the original Romero film this is obviously inspired by, as well as Romero's sequels and even Fulci's demented foray into the sub-genre. Americans may get a chuckle out of classic Britishisms like 'And don't bugger me about!' (Character to gas jockey).
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