THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE
They tampered with nature—now they must pay the price …
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a hunger for human flesh by ultrasonic radiation being used for pest control.
About This Film
George is taking a trip from his antique shop in Manchester to the Lake District to work on a new house with some of his friends. On the way, his Norton motorcycle is accidentally damaged by Edna while reversing her Mini Cooper at a petrol station. He demands she give him a lift to his destination, while Edna, on her way to visit her troubled sister, asks to go to the town of Southgate first, and to let George take her car to Windermere where she will later retrieve it.
George agrees, but the two come to a dead end road alongside a river while searching for Edna's sister's house. George crosses the river on foot to a farm where several men from the Ministry of Agriculture are using an experimental machine in a field. While asking for directions, he inquires about their machinery, which they explain is designed to kill insects through ultra-sonic radiation. Meanwhile, while Edna waits at the car, she is attacked by a man who emerges from the river, but he disappears after she reaches George.
Night falls, and Edna's drug addict sister, Katie, is getting into an argument with her photographer husband, Martin, about her sister's impending arrival. Martin goes down to a waterfall near their remote cottage to take photographs, and Katie is attacked by the same man who Edna had encountered earlier. The man kills Martin, and Katie flees just as George and Edna arrive. When the three report the death, the aggressive police sergeant thinks that Katie did it. George, forced to stay in Southgate, secretly takes the roll of film from Martin's camera to a local chemist to have it developed. Katie has a breakdown and is hospitalised. At the hospital, it turns out that babies are affected too, biting people with homicidal intensity.
Back at the chemist's, they collect the photos, but the dead man does not appear in any of the pictures; the man, it turns out, is a local vagrant who drowned in the river. The sergeant arrives and takes photos and, when the couple leaves, sends one of his officers, PC Craig, to trail them. They go to the graveyard and in a room in the chapel find a half-eaten meal. Following noises to a crypt, they come across a murdered man and are locked in by the vagrant zombie, who brings the other bodies to life by touching their eyes with his blood-stained fingers. The pair manages to make a hole they can escape from and Edna does, only to find herself in a pit while the zombies have hold of George's feet. Meanwhile, PC Craig turns up and helps Edna out of the pit. George manages to get free and follows them, with the zombies chasing all three of them. They lock themselves in a room but are trapped there, and Craig soon finds that his gun is of no use. He makes a dash for the police radio he has dropped outside but is caught by the zombies who eviscerate him and begin eating his organs.
The dead break into their room and in desperation George throws a lit oil lamp at them. It smashes and the zombies burst into flame. The two escape to their car and Edna is sent off to tell the police. George plans to use the unmarked police car to go and smash the machine but it has no key so he runs off. At the machine, the farmer and two machine men do not believe George and reveal that the machine is now working up to a five miles radius. They try to stop him, but he smashes the machine and they drive off to get away from "the mad man".
The sergeant has found Craig and the caretaker's bodies, and thinking they may be devil worshippers, issues orders "to shoot to kill" George and Edna. He is then told that George has deliberately wrecked the machine. Edna has arrived at her brother-in-law's farm only to be met by Martin, who is now a zombie, but she manages to run over him as she escapes. George finds her, drops her off at a petrol station and drives off with a large can of petrol. George is caught in a police trap and Martin's body is taken back to the hospital.
In a field, the machine is repaired and switched on again, which brings to life a number of bodies in the nearby morgue. George escapes in a police car and finds Edna has been taken to the hospital, where the local morgue is. She is being sedated while George is now being chased by the police as he drives to the hospital where the zombies are now killing people, including Katie who as a zombie tries to kill her sister.
George arrives and starts setting fire to zombies but it turns out that he was too late to save Edna and as she suddenly attacks him, he pushes her into a room, which is now burning. George is then shot four times by the over-zealous police sergeant. Everything is over as far as he is concerned now and the sergeant heads to a room at the hotel in South Gate for the night. After shooting him down in cold blood, the sergeant wishes he would come alive again so he could shoot him again. He gets his wish as zombie George is waiting for him in his room, but now bullets won't stop him. In a field nearby, the machine continues working.
George agrees, but the two come to a dead end road alongside a river while searching for Edna's sister's house. George crosses the river on foot to a farm where several men from the Ministry of Agriculture are using an experimental machine in a field. While asking for directions, he inquires about their machinery, which they explain is designed to kill insects through ultra-sonic radiation. Meanwhile, while Edna waits at the car, she is attacked by a man who emerges from the river, but he disappears after she reaches George.
Night falls, and Edna's drug addict sister, Katie, is getting into an argument with her photographer husband, Martin, about her sister's impending arrival. Martin goes down to a waterfall near their remote cottage to take photographs, and Katie is attacked by the same man who Edna had encountered earlier. The man kills Martin, and Katie flees just as George and Edna arrive. When the three report the death, the aggressive police sergeant thinks that Katie did it. George, forced to stay in Southgate, secretly takes the roll of film from Martin's camera to a local chemist to have it developed. Katie has a breakdown and is hospitalised. At the hospital, it turns out that babies are affected too, biting people with homicidal intensity.
Back at the chemist's, they collect the photos, but the dead man does not appear in any of the pictures; the man, it turns out, is a local vagrant who drowned in the river. The sergeant arrives and takes photos and, when the couple leaves, sends one of his officers, PC Craig, to trail them. They go to the graveyard and in a room in the chapel find a half-eaten meal. Following noises to a crypt, they come across a murdered man and are locked in by the vagrant zombie, who brings the other bodies to life by touching their eyes with his blood-stained fingers. The pair manages to make a hole they can escape from and Edna does, only to find herself in a pit while the zombies have hold of George's feet. Meanwhile, PC Craig turns up and helps Edna out of the pit. George manages to get free and follows them, with the zombies chasing all three of them. They lock themselves in a room but are trapped there, and Craig soon finds that his gun is of no use. He makes a dash for the police radio he has dropped outside but is caught by the zombies who eviscerate him and begin eating his organs.
The dead break into their room and in desperation George throws a lit oil lamp at them. It smashes and the zombies burst into flame. The two escape to their car and Edna is sent off to tell the police. George plans to use the unmarked police car to go and smash the machine but it has no key so he runs off. At the machine, the farmer and two machine men do not believe George and reveal that the machine is now working up to a five miles radius. They try to stop him, but he smashes the machine and they drive off to get away from "the mad man".
The sergeant has found Craig and the caretaker's bodies, and thinking they may be devil worshippers, issues orders "to shoot to kill" George and Edna. He is then told that George has deliberately wrecked the machine. Edna has arrived at her brother-in-law's farm only to be met by Martin, who is now a zombie, but she manages to run over him as she escapes. George finds her, drops her off at a petrol station and drives off with a large can of petrol. George is caught in a police trap and Martin's body is taken back to the hospital.
In a field, the machine is repaired and switched on again, which brings to life a number of bodies in the nearby morgue. George escapes in a police car and finds Edna has been taken to the hospital, where the local morgue is. She is being sedated while George is now being chased by the police as he drives to the hospital where the zombies are now killing people, including Katie who as a zombie tries to kill her sister.
George arrives and starts setting fire to zombies but it turns out that he was too late to save Edna and as she suddenly attacks him, he pushes her into a room, which is now burning. George is then shot four times by the over-zealous police sergeant. Everything is over as far as he is concerned now and the sergeant heads to a room at the hotel in South Gate for the night. After shooting him down in cold blood, the sergeant wishes he would come alive again so he could shoot him again. He gets his wish as zombie George is waiting for him in his room, but now bullets won't stop him. In a field nearby, the machine continues working.
Film Details
Director
Jorge Grau
Writers
Sandro Continenza, Marcello Coscia, Miguel Rubio, Juan Cobos
Tags
Keywords
Female Nudity
Murder
Psychotronic Film
Female Topless Nudity
Female Full Frontal Nudity
Violence
Female Frontal Nudity
Blood
Cult Film
Revenge
Grindhouse Film
Bare Chested Male
Police
Sadism
Cigarette Smoking
Corpse
Doctor
Shot To Death
Telephone Call
Fight
Gun
Blood Splatter
Escape
Stabbed To Death
Chase
Dead Body
Investigation
Stabbing
Fear
Brutality
Scientist
Police Officer
Fire
Cruelty
Creature Feature
Strangulation
Screaming
Motorcycle
Bondage
Slapped In The Face
Cemetery
Shooting
Shot In The Chest
Detective
1970s
Cannibal
Scream
Love
Rampage
Police Detective
Rescue
Screaming Woman
Nurse
Foot Chase
Massacre
Car
Policeman
Coffin
Close Up Of Eyes
Flashlight
Crying
Video Nasty
Dead Woman
Hotel
Photographer
Slaughter
Experiment
Male Pubic Hair
Man Wears Eyeglasses
Gunshot
House
Mother Daughter Relationship
Hallucination
Panic
Secretly Observing
Trauma
Terror
Police Investigation
Suspicion
Severed Hand
Grave
Bloody Face
Undead
Elevator
Gas Station
Visit
Injection
Photography
Escape Attempt
Disembowelment
Vengeance
Person On Fire
Danger
Hairy Chest
Dead Man
Lighting A Cigarette
Strangled To Death
Basement
England
Torch
England
City
Locked Door
Italian Horror
Rural Setting
Knocking On A Door
Back From The Dead
Exhibitionism
Crying Woman
Man Wears Sunglasses
Female Pedal Pumping
Rage
Graveyard
Riding A Motorcycle
Newspaper
Europe
Sister Sister Relationship
Breaking A Window
Characters Murdered One By One
Lake
Murder Investigation
Reference To God
Hippie
Waterfall
Death Of Protagonist
Running
Morgue
Intestines
Destruction
Framed For Murder
Following Someone
Visitor
Hairy Chested Male
Countryside
Eye Gouging
Broken Glass
Disbelief
Locked In
Cigarette
Long Haired Male
Crying Female
Investigator
Phone Booth
Statue
Tied To A Bed
Broken Window
Witness
Woman Wears Eyeglasses
Kitchen
Cross
Crypt
Being Followed
Police Investigator
Tragic Event
Exhibitionist
Blood Stain
Tomb
Flesh Eating
Drug Addiction
Living Dead
Murder Suspect
Drug Addict
Frame Up
Man On Fire
Radiation
Obscene Finger Gesture
Trapped
Eating Human Flesh
Listening To A Radio
Farmer
Science
Heroin
Skirt
Female Exhibitionist
Blood On Hands
Multiple Murders
Zombie Attack
Death Of Husband
Mysterious Event
Scientific Experiment
Hospital Room
Patronizing
Zombie Violence
Wrath
Walking Dead
Jacket
Suspect
Disembodied Hand
Female Bondage
Apocalypse
Bearded Man
Shirt
Heart Ripped Out
Falling Into Water
Mechanic
Injustice
Death By Gunshot
Pollution
Bird
Crying For Help
Immolation
Insect
Private Investigation
Covering A Dead Body
Human Flesh
London
Spanish Horror
Bandage
Traumatized Woman
Receptionist
Magnifying Glass
Head Bandage
Chloroform
Flesh Eating Zombie
Zombification
Loss Of Control
Glasses
Evil Dead
Hospital Bed
Darkroom
Junkie
Owl
Machine
Hostility
Escape Out A Window
Police Operation
Ant
Transmitter
Arm Injury
Woman Tied To A Bed
Guts
Fright
Entrails
Cottage
Burning
Setting A Fire
Reception
Breaking A Glass
Street
Medical Doctor
Skin Ripping
Dead Bird
Rock
Message
Mortuary
Scientific Research
Stake
Heroin Addict
Evisceration
Hotel Reception
Hotel Receptionist
Carrying A Coffin
Reference To Adolf Hitler
Strangling
Claim In Title
Mysterious Noise
Woman On Fire
Scientific Discovery
Open Grave
Car Keys
Chemical
Prejudice
Flame
Contamination
Female Drug Addict
English Countryside
Technician
Hotel Manager
Hotel Owner
Hand Bitten Off
Telephone Operator
Year 1974
Murder Of Husband
Intolerance
Eye Ripped Out
Return From The Dead
Developing A Photograph
Ecology
Looking Glass
Locked In A Crypt
Human Eaten By Zombies
Violence Against A Child
Streaking
Detector
Process Photography
Female Junkie
Naked Male
Satanic Panic
Stitches
Suture
Headlights
Brother-in-law
Escape Through The Window
Anti Technology
Streaker
Female Streaker
Rock As Weapon
Mentally Challenged Child
Mentally Challenged Daughter
Ultrasound
Also Known As
Invasion der Zombies, Don't Open the Window, The Living Dead, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Fin de semana para los muertos, No se debe profanar el sueño de los muertos, No profanes el sueño de los muertos, Dejen que los muertos duerman, No profanéis el sueño de los muertos, Nehanobte spánek mrtvých, Breakfast at the Manchester Morgue, Zombi 3, Da dove vieni?, No profanar el sueño de los muertos (original title)