Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
- Original title
- Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti
- Directed by
- Jorge Grau
- Genre
- horror film, science fiction film, zombie film
- Country
- Italy, Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 236 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two strangers in the English countryside are blamed for murders actually committed by zombies. The dead are reanimated by a farm device using ultrasonic radiation to kill insects.
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What happens
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Italian: Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti, Spanish: No profanar el sueño de los muertos, lit. 'Do Not Profane the Sleep of the Dead'); also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue and Don't Open the Window) is a 1974 zombie horror film directed by Jorge Grau, and starring Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock and Arthur Kennedy. It focuses on two protagonists who are harassed by a local police investigator in the English countryside and are implicated in murders committed by zombies who have been brought to life by a farming tool designed to kill insects via ultra-sonic radiation. A co-production between Spain and Italy, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie premiered at the Sitges Film Festival on 30 September 1974, where it won awards for Best Actress (for Galbo) and Best Special Effects. Jorge Grau won the CEC Award for Best Director. In the following years, the film has become a cult classic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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