Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a 1974 film from Spain and Italy, directed by Jorge Grau, running 92 minutes. reelscum files it under fantaterror and zombie.
- Year
- 1974 · 1970s films
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Director
- Jorge Grau
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (33/100)
- Also known as
- Don't Open the Window · The Living Dead · Let Sleeping Corpses Lie · Breakfast at the Manchester Morgue
- Banned in
- UK
Defined in the glossary: Fantaterror, Zombie
A DPP video nasty under its UK title The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue.
Spanish-Italian, shot in England, and much smarter than its stablemates.
A Spanish-Italian production shot in the English countryside, and far smarter than most of the cycle. An experimental agricultural device reanimates the local dead, and a bickering pair of strangers get blamed for the killings by a reactionary police inspector who despises them on sight.
The environmental angle and the class-and-generation politics give it real bite, and the location shooting in Manchester and the Lake District looks like nothing else in Euro-horror. The final line is a perfect sour joke.
One of the best zombie films you have probably never seen.
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Written about
- Gut-munchers: the Italian zombie boom, 1979 to 1983
There was no first one. Argento recut Romero, Fulci forged the sequel, and Italy spent four years feeding the British censors.
- Fantaterror: the Spanish horror boom, 1968 to 1976
Two cuts of every film, one for the censor in Madrid and one for the drive-in. Democracy killed the trick in two years.
On these lists
- The Spanish horror shelf
Shot twice, dressed for the Madrid censor and naked for the drive-in. The blind Templars on skeletal horses are still the best monster on the shelf.
Filed alongside
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Eyeless Templars on skeletal horses in slow motion. Best monster design of the 70s.
Return of the Evil Dead
Blind Dead again, this time besieging a whole village. The best of the four.
The Ghost Galleon
The Blind Dead put to sea on a model boat in a visible fish tank. The runt of the four.
Night of the Seagulls
The Blind Dead ride out one last time. A quiet, sad closer to Spain's best monster series.
Cemetery Man
A cemetery caretaker shoots the returning dead and falls in love repeatedly. Beautiful and deranged.
Who Can Kill a Child?
Spanish, sun-bleached, upsetting. The opening newsreel is a hard sell.
The Blood Spattered Bride
Spanish Carmilla adaptation with an unusually pointed anger about marriage.
Hell of the Living Dead
Bruno Mattei rips off Dawn of the Dead with a Goblin score he also stole. Gloriously shameless.
The Grapes of Death
Rollin does an outbreak. A pesticide turns wine-country villagers into oozing killers.
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
Franco at his dreamiest. Distributors added zombies later without telling him.
The Crazies
A military bioweapon drives a town homicidally insane. Romero on institutional failure, again.
Shock Waves
Underwater Nazi zombies rise off a tropical island. Peter Cushing, John Carradine, and real dread.