Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a film that really snuck up on me turning out to be a marvelous little zombie film. The story is very intricate with multiple characters being privy to scenes and spots and different ways. Unsuspecting to me too was the contrast in different feels and atmospheres of the film. Normally when I watch an English film I can tell its English, Italian from Spanish and so on. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie blends all these euro horror elements together to create an amazing unique setting and mood. The mood was doomful to boot, the zombies were unsettling and the base music was chilling. I loved the two main leads, George and Edna, they were spectacular and had great character development. The flow at times was halted with choppy edits and a couple unnecessary scenes but otherwise there is nothing major to hate. If you're a fan of Night of the Living Dead, which I can tell Jorge Grau is, you'll end up really enjoying this movie. I give it a solid 8/10 rating.

On his way from London to a meeting in the northern part of England, "George" (Ray Lovelock) has his motorcycle damaged when a young lady named "Edna" (Cristina Galbo) accidentally backs her car into it at a gas station. Since she is at fault she reluctantly accedes to George's request to drive him to his meeting but manages to convince him to drive her to her sister's house first. However, when George stops to ask for directions she is attacked by a strange man and barely manages to escape. Unfortunately, George doesn't believe her and they continue on. Not long afterward, Edna's sister "Katie" (Jeannine Mestre) is also assaulted and her husband "Martin" (Jose Lifante) is killed by the same person who attacked Edna. When the police arrive "the Inspector" (played by Arthur Kennedy) immediately considers George and Edna to be his prime suspects and becomes even further convinced as the death toll increases and both of them blame "dead people" as the culprits. Anyway, rather than detail the rest of the movie I will just say that this was a pretty good zombie movie which resembled "Night of the Living Dead" in several ways. Admittedly, there were some parts which were pretty slow and some of the lighting in certain scenes could have been better but by and large it was still an enjoyable film for the most part. Accordingly, I rate it as slightly above average.

I hate using the word overrated. It's very derogatory in my opinion, and sounds rather crass as well, so I'll use a more polite term. It's over- praised by Horror fans in my opinion. I actually thought this might end up being something special when I first started this one. It was very atmospheric and has a rather tense first zombie sighting, but then that's where the problems started with me. It moves like molasses. It's very slow moving, and my interest started to wane big time. I also had trouble getting invested into the two lead characters. Cristina Galbó;s whiny performance grated my nerves quickly. I found her to be very unsympathetic in my opinion. Ray Lovelock tries to play it all cool, but he was rather nonchalant and annoying. I didn't care for him at all. Arthur Kennedy is even worse. His performance as the inspector quickly tested my patience. His anger wasn't enjoyable to watch. Chill. The gore is decent, but nothing like you'd see in a lot of zombie flicks. The zombies themselves are actually pretty creepy; too bad the movie is so boringFinal Thoughts: This tries to rely on atmosphere, but it failed miserably. The slow pace, the grating characters, and overall lack of thrills sink this one. It seems to have a big cult following, so maybe it's just me…4/10

Jorge Grau's "The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" (just one of the titles given to this classic) can rightfully take its place as one of the best zombie films ever made. It's an Italian & Spanish co-production set in England, and makes wonderful, memorable use of many striking locations. It's genuinely suspenseful, effectively gory, and has some absolutely great set pieces.The energetic Ray Lovelock and the gorgeous Cristina Galbo play George and Edna, two people who meet by chance and become reluctant travelling companions. As they near their destination, they start to encounter the dead who have come back to life. This is possibly the result of an agricultural device using ultrasonic rays to eliminate insects. George and Edna have a hard time as it is struggling to stay alive, but what makes matters worse is that a grumpy, conservative police inspector (veteran actor Arthur Kennedy) gets one look at them and assumes them to be Manson family type hippies who are responsible for the entire problem.Grau does an excellent job at slowly easing the viewer into the horrors to come, but once they do they're most enjoyable. The atmosphere of the film is just intoxicating, especially in locations such as the cemetery and the crypt. And speaking of the crypt, the best sequence of all in the film takes place there, as George and Edna try to escape while trying to hold off the zombies. The zombies themselves are lumberers in the classic tradition and look suitably intimidating, although makeup on them is minimal; the gore is saved for when they catch up to their victims. Fernando Hilbeck has a wonderful look to him as the very first of the zombies that we see. The acting from the leads is very good, with Lovelock and Galbo making for engaging protagonists and Kennedy creating the kind of character whom the audience will just love to hate. Giorgio Trestini as hapless police officer Craig, Jeannine Mestre as Edna's drug addict sister Katie, and Vicente Vega as the concerned Dr. Duffield likewise impress.All of them help to make this a richly rewarding horror film that builds and builds up to a fiery finale at a hospital and a nicely satisfying coda. This is just as good as anything done by George A. Romero and comes highly recommended to any lover of and newcomer to zombie cinema.Nine out of 10.