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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the 1974 zombie movie “Let Sleeping Corpses Lie,” also known as “The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue.” It’s a sci-fi spin on the zombie genre, set in rural England and brought to life in a Spanish/Italian co-production. It’s bloody good! (originally published 02/10/2023)

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

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0:08.5

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0:14.0

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0:21.8

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0:27.0

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0:35.1

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind.

0:38.1

This is Rob Lamb.

0:39.5

And this is Joe McCormick.

0:41.5

And hey, today we're going to be playing an episode that originally aired on February 10th, 2023.

0:48.1

This was our Weird House Cinema on Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, aka, what was the other name, The Living Dead at Manchester Morg, something like that?

0:57.2

That's right. Yeah, it's a sci-fi spin on the zombie genre, set in rural England, but it's also a Spanish-Italian co-production.

1:06.8

It's really, really fun. I was, of course, recently traveling in the UK, and occasionally I would see an old church,

1:12.9

and I was like, oh, man, a few of these look kind of like that church from Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.

1:17.2

That sounds wonderful.

1:18.7

Yeah, I remember this movie being just filled with beautiful locations and acerbic jerks.

1:28.1

All right.

1:28.9

Well, without further ado, let's jump right in.

1:35.1

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

1:49.7

Hey, you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. And this is Joe McCormick.

2:02.5

Today's movie goes by many names. It stems from the mid-1970s. And you could easily sort of single it out for a few different things. It's, uh, on one, on one level,

2:07.3

it is a, it's very British. It is the, perhaps the most important British zombie film, certainly of this time period. Uh, it's also a Spanish, Italian co-production and has, I think, no actual

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