Reviwed by Chris Wright, MoreHorror.com
Directed By: Jorge Grau
Written By: Juan Cobos, Sandro Continenza Marcello Coscia, Miguel Rubio
Starring: Cristina Galbo (Edna), Ray Lovelock (George) Arthur Kennedy (The Inspector), Aldo Massasso (Kinsey), Giorgio Trestini (Craig), Roberto Posse (Benson), Jose Lifante (Martin), Jeannine Mestre (Katie), Gengher Gatti (Keith), Fernando (Guthrie), Vera Drudi (Mary), Vicente Vega (Dr. Duffield), Francisco Sanz (Perkins), Paul Benson (Wood), Anita Colby (Nurse)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a forgotten Spanish-Italian zombie movie from the middle 1970s that deserves more viewers in its camp. This title has so many alternate titles in its numerous releases that it can be difficult to track down. The original title is “Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti” and the most common title that was released in America was “The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue.” It was also released in some theaters in America as “Don’t Open the Window.
Directed By: Jorge Grau
Written By: Juan Cobos, Sandro Continenza Marcello Coscia, Miguel Rubio
Starring: Cristina Galbo (Edna), Ray Lovelock (George) Arthur Kennedy (The Inspector), Aldo Massasso (Kinsey), Giorgio Trestini (Craig), Roberto Posse (Benson), Jose Lifante (Martin), Jeannine Mestre (Katie), Gengher Gatti (Keith), Fernando (Guthrie), Vera Drudi (Mary), Vicente Vega (Dr. Duffield), Francisco Sanz (Perkins), Paul Benson (Wood), Anita Colby (Nurse)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a forgotten Spanish-Italian zombie movie from the middle 1970s that deserves more viewers in its camp. This title has so many alternate titles in its numerous releases that it can be difficult to track down. The original title is “Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti” and the most common title that was released in America was “The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue.” It was also released in some theaters in America as “Don’t Open the Window.
- 6/7/2013
- by admin
- MoreHorror
by Nick Schager
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Quentin Tarantino's slavery-themed revisionist Spaghetti Western Django Unchained.]
Unrelated to Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966) save for its title, which was tacked on at the last second for marketing purposes, Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! takes the Spaghetti Western into the realm of the grotesque and surreal—and, in the process, proves to be one of the genre's all-time unsung gems. Giulio Questi's saga is a mishmash of the biblical, the Shakespearean, and the outright peculiar, tracking an unnamed Stranger (Tomas Milian)—ostensibly the story's Django, though he never drags around a coffin—as he rises from the dead to chase down the bandit comrades who double-crossed him out of his share of gold and then shot him and his Mexican mates. The Stranger's Christ-like resurrection will be followed much later by his crucifixion at the hands of a crime boss named Sorrow (Roberto Camardiel). Such continuity screwiness, however, is part and parcel of...
[This week's "Retro Active" pick is inspired by Quentin Tarantino's slavery-themed revisionist Spaghetti Western Django Unchained.]
Unrelated to Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966) save for its title, which was tacked on at the last second for marketing purposes, Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! takes the Spaghetti Western into the realm of the grotesque and surreal—and, in the process, proves to be one of the genre's all-time unsung gems. Giulio Questi's saga is a mishmash of the biblical, the Shakespearean, and the outright peculiar, tracking an unnamed Stranger (Tomas Milian)—ostensibly the story's Django, though he never drags around a coffin—as he rises from the dead to chase down the bandit comrades who double-crossed him out of his share of gold and then shot him and his Mexican mates. The Stranger's Christ-like resurrection will be followed much later by his crucifixion at the hands of a crime boss named Sorrow (Roberto Camardiel). Such continuity screwiness, however, is part and parcel of...
- 1/3/2013
- GreenCine Daily
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