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The Evolution of Horror

ZOMBIES Pt 21: Deep Cuts & The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue (1974)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week Mike is joined by Arrow Podcast co-host Dan Martin to discuss cult zombie favourite The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue (AKA Let Sleeping Corpses Lie). Dan then also recommends twenty (!) lesser known zombie DEEP CUTS.

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... Oh, Oh, Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host.

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If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome. In this podcast we explore and dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at

0:44.3

particular sub-genres across several weeks.

0:47.3

We are currently in the middle and getting towards the end of our journey through the evolution of the

0:52.0

zombie movie and this is part 21

0:55.2

making this officially the longest series so far I think the ghost series was 20 episodes

1:01.7

long which was at the time the longest series.

1:05.4

But we're up to episode 21 and we're still not quite at the end yet.

1:09.0

But this week is going to be following on from last week's also Rans episode but this one is

1:13.4

going to be more of a deep cut we are going to be recommending some lesser

1:17.2

known hidden gems in the zombie sub-genre actually not all of them are gems but

1:21.8

they're all noteworthy and we're also going to be

1:24.3

delving deep into the living dead at Manchester morgue aka let sleeping corpses

1:30.8

live from 1974 that will be a spoilerific review. We will be

1:36.0

mentioning details of the ending of that movie as well as various other

1:39.9

bits and pieces. So if you haven't seen the living dead at Manchester morgue try and

1:44.3

seek it out if you can and give it a watch in fact it's it's not great quality but

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