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The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue

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Time Out says

Although made in the Lake District with a mainly dubbed cast, Arthur Kennedy as a very American English policeman, and a plot indebted to Night of the Living Dead, this works against all the odds. Through intelligent handling of locations, England becomes a very bleak place indeed, full of sinister quietness. Hero and heroine, thrown together by chance, find themselves pursued by both police and an army of cannibalistic living dead through this increasingly nightmarish landscape. It's a film of unrelieved blackness, from the seedy photographer who snaps his junkie wife cowering in the bath to homicidal babies, from mongol child at a petrol station to Kennedy's brutal sergeant. It's all the more absurdly fatalistic for refusing to draw political, moral or social conclusions.

Release Details

  • Duration:93 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Jorge Grau
  • Screenwriter:Alessandro Continenza, Marcello Coscia
  • Cast:
    • Ray Lovelock
    • Christine Galbo
    • Arthur Kennedy
    • Aldo Massasso
    • Giorgio Trestini
    • Roberto Posse
    • José Ruiz Lifante
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