The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue or Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

My zombie film education continues. "The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" or "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" - I don't understand the title confusion. It has a different Spanish title and a few more English ones. Whatever. I had never heard of this film in any of its multiple titled iterations. Like any great zombie film, there's a take-away lesson - this one, it's environmental: don't mess with nature or . . . you will get zombies! Of course. This came out in 1974 and apparently nobody listened. And look where we are now! Anyway, this well-shot, well-enough-acted, and coherent film is one of the best of the zombie genre. I said "coherent" because a lot of the Italian zombie pictures of this same era don't really have a good story - they are just gross-out, gore-fests with people running around doing things at random. Most are hard to follow and don't make a lot of sense. "The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" has a plot: A young couple gets blamed for murders, murders committed by zombies! Ridiculous? Definitely. But there's some real suspense and mood here. This is a well-put-together film for a low-budget zombie movie from 1974. Some of the zombies are truly freaky - and everyone drives like lunatics through the English countryside which honestly just adds to the charm. I had a ball. If zombies aren't your thing, I get it - give this one a skip. But if you've got a taste for the undead, this is must-see stuff. It's more like a B film and normally I only write about A films here on the blog, but this is an A-level zombie flick, so it's getting a full entry here on the Marquee. You can find it streaming on Shudder.