The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)

21 Aug 2023

Rating: 4/5

“We can’t even get the government to act on things with hard facts and data. Imagine getting anyone to do anything on a mere hypothesis.”

Zombie eco-horror, where farmers develop a machine that kills insects with ultrasonic rays by driving them to kill one another — the effect spreads to newborn babies and the dead

Indebted to Night of the Living Dead, but functions more like a spiritual sequel, focusing on the violence and upping the ante, and telling a similarly downbeat story

An underrated, brutal film that inspired Fulci to make Zombie, The Beyond, and House by the Cemetery, hiring this movie’s special effects artist Giannetto De Rossi for each


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