Italy, 1974
85m (USA – R rated version), 93m (Spain; USA – unrated), 95m (Italy)
35mm film, Eastmancolor
Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround 5.1 (DVD), Spanish, English, Italian
An Italian horror film, filmed in the UK under the direction of Spaniard Jorge Grau. Under the title The Living Dead it was branded a “video nasty” in the UK despite it being released in a truncated version.
Plot Summary
An experimental pest control device that uses ultrasound to drive insects to kill each other is being tested in the Lake District in the North of England. But the device also acts on the nervous systems of the recently dead and reanimates the inhabitants of a local cemetery. A mismatched group of characters find themselves up against an ever growing army of the undead.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Jorge Grau
© 1974 Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche S.r.l., Rome
An Edmondo Amati production
Written by: Sandro Continenza, Marcello Coscia
Lighting Cameraman: Francisco Sempere
Film Editor: Vincenzo Tomassi
Music Composed & Conducted by: Giuliano Sorgini
Sound Recordist: Antonio Cardenas
Seamstress: Carmen de la Casa
Special Effects: Luciano Bird
Special Optical Effects by: Giannetto de Rossi
Production Designer: Carlo Leva
Art Director: Rafael Ferri
Filmed on location and at Cinecitta’, Rome and Cinearte Studios, Madrid
Cast
Ray Lovelock [George Meaning]
Christine Galbo [real name: Cristina Galbo] [Edna]
Arthur Kennedy [McCormick]
Aldo Massasso (Kinsey)
Giorgio Trestini (Craig)
Roberto Posse (Benson)
José Ruiz Lifante (Martin)
Jeannine Mestre (Katie)
Gengher Gatti (Keith)
Fernando Hilbeck (Guthrie)
Vera Drudi (Mary)
Vincente Vega (Dr Duffield)
Paco Sanz (Perkins)
Paul Benson (Wood)
Anita Colby (nurse)
Joaquin Hinjosa (autopsy doctor)
Vito Salier (naked man)
Isabel Mestre (telephonist)
Alternative Titles
Breakfast at the Manchester Morgue – USA
Don’t Open the Window – alternative USA
Fin de semana para los muertos – alternative title
Invasion der Zombies – West Germany
Das Leichenhaus der lebenden Toten – West Germany
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie – USA
Levende doden in het lijkenhuis – Netherlands
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue – UK, USA
The Living Dead – UK (video)
Le Massacre des morts-vivants – France
No profanar el sueño de los muertos – Spain
No profanéis el sueño de los muertos – Spain
No profanes el sueño de los muertos – Spain
A Revanche dos Mortos-Vivos II – Brazil
Sdejen que los muertos duermen
Weekend per i morti – Italy (alternative)
Zombi Epidromi apo to nekrotafeio – Greece
Zombi 3 (Da Dove Vieni?) – Italy (1980 re-release)
Zumbi 3 – Brazil
References
Periodicals
- Arteries no.3 p.60 – review
- The Dark Side no.58 p.59 – review
- The Dark Side no.71 p.26 – review
- The Dark Side no.89 p.37 – review
- The Dark Side no.158 (March/April 2014) pp.4-8 – illustrated article (Zombie dales diary by John Martin)
- The Dark Side no.203 (2019) p.8 – illustrated interview (The gore the merrier by Calum Waddell)
- Delirium no.1 p.34 – review
- Delirium no.3 p.50 – review, credits
- Is It Uncut? no.3 p.31 – review
- Necronomicon no.1 pp.23-25 – illustrated review
- Psychotronic Video no.21 p.71 – review
- Samhain no.1 p.20 – illustrated article
- SFX no.92 p.101 – review
- Shivers no.102 p.62 – illustrated article
- The Very Best of Video Horror p.15 – review
- Video Watchdog no.66 pp.34, 57 – article, review
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror (2nd edition) pp.294-295 – review, credits
- Hoffman’s Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991-1992 p.134 – credits, review
- Unsung Horrors by Eric McNaughton & Darrell Buxton (eds) pp.210-211 – illustrated review (by Jonathan Dabell)
- The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by Peter Dendle pp.103-104
