Thursday 14 March 2019

(Not so) Guilty Pleasures: The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue




And, the official trailer:




This is a quite a favourite in our household and has a number of quotable lines, our favourite being:

"You look like an Edna"...

Going back to my previous post made a while ago that explored Romero's Dawn of the Dead; the Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue is one of the first truly great post Night of the Living Dead zombie movies.

Shot in England, and Spain, the film highlights issues surrounding pollution, the environment and a corrupt police force (which was *very* forward thinking for its time)

I saw this after DOTD and felt a twinge of disappointment (no shopping malls and a distinct lack of action) but over the years, it has grown on me (and Linda) due to the atmosphere, the cinematography and the way it "humanises" the genre as the story is mostly told through the eyes of two innocent, relatively normal people who have been dragged into events that are beyond their understanding.

Several years ago, Linda treated me to a birthday tour of the locations and I managed to take a few photos.

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Apart from being a great movie, it has an awesome soundtrack.


Enjoy!


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