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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Edna turns into a zombie, George is shot dead by the corrupt police inspector, and the machine that raises the dead is still working]].
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* {{Streaking}}: The opening sequence shows a naked woman running through a busy street. This has no bearing on the plot and seems to be there only to emphasise the swinging nature of 1970s urban England.
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* NeverTrustATitle: Only the opening credits are set in Manchester. The film proper is actually set in Windermere and Lakeland.
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* ShownTheirWork: Incredibly for a foreign production, the actors make an actual effort to affect the [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents correct regional accent]] rather than employing a stereotypical upper-class dialect.
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* ShownTheirWork: Incredibly for a foreign production, the voice actors (since the entire cast was [[SameLanguageDub dubbed over]]) make an actual effort to affect the [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents correct regional accent]] rather than employing a stereotypical upper-class dialect.dialect. It helps that the voice actors were actually British.
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* {{Streaking}}: The opening sequence shows a naked woman running through a busy street. This has no bearing on the plot and seems to be there only to emphasise the swinging nature of 1970s urban England.England.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: After the inspector kills George for a mere suspicion, George shows up in his hotel room and kills him with the inspector dying quickly without much of a fight.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: After the inspector kills George for a mere suspicion, George Zombie!George shows up in his hotel room and kills him with the inspector dying quickly without much of a fight.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: After the inspector kills George for a mere suspicion, George shows up in his hotel room and kills him with the inspector dying quickly without much of a fight.]]
* PoliceBrutality: The inspector is a frustrated, incompetent buffoon who would rather kill a suspect than investigate if the suspect is actually guilty.
* PoliceBrutality: The inspector is a frustrated, incompetent buffoon who would rather kill a suspect than investigate if the suspect is actually guilty.
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In the eighties, the film was targeted during Britain's VideoNasties scare.
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In the eighties, the film was targeted during Britain's VideoNasties scare.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Despite their pseudo-scientific origin, the film gives its zombies some seemingly supernatural characteristics. The first zombie to be resurrected walks around the morgue bringing the corpses to life by ritualistically daubing their eyelids with his blood; he also fails to appear in photographs, hinting at vampire-like attributes (although he may simply have beenn out of shot).
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Despite their pseudo-scientific origin, the film gives its zombies some seemingly supernatural characteristics. The first zombie to be resurrected walks around the morgue bringing the corpses to life by ritualistically daubing their eyelids with his blood; he also fails to appear in photographs, hinting at vampire-like attributes (although he may simply have beenn been out of shot).
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The original Spanish title, ''No profanar el sueño de los muertos'', translates as ''Don't Disturb the Sleep of the Dead''. Of the film's numerous English titles, only one (''Let Sleeping Corpses Lie'') attempts to reflect the original name with any degree of accuracy. The other titles include (deep breath) ''The Living Dead'', ''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue'', ''The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue'', ''[[GallowsHumour Breakfast at Manchester Morgue]]'' and, inexplicably, ''Don't Open the Window''.
** Just to make things more confusing, on at least one occasion the film went under different titles within one release - the video box reading ''The Living Dead'' and the print itself using ''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue''.
** Just to make things more confusing, on at least one occasion the film went under different titles within one release - the video box reading ''The Living Dead'' and the print itself using ''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue''.
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'''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue''' is a 1974 Spanish-Italian zombie film that was written and directed by Jorge Grau, starring Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy and Cristina Galbó.
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'''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue''' is a 1974 Spanish-Italian zombie film that was written and directed by Jorge Grau, starring Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy and Cristina Galbó.
A young woman named Edna goes to visit her sister on the outskirts of Manchester. Along the way she damages the motorcycle of a brash young man named George, who forces her to take him along for the ride. Once there, they find that "ultrasonic radiation" from a pest-control device is causing the dead to rise as [[FleshEatingZombie Flesh-Eating Zombies]].
As they fight off the zombies, a police sergeant named [=McCormick=] comes across the mutilated corpses and desecrated graves. Misreading the evidence, he concludes that a cult of devil-worshipping murderers are loose - and Edna and George are his prime targets.
In the eighties, the film was targeted during Britain's VideoNasties scare.
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!!''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AdjustableCensorship: In early-eighties Britain, two different versions of the film were on the market: the uncut ''The Living Dead'', and the cut ''Don't Open the Window''. The latter version escaped targeting during the video nasty scare.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Seriously, ''ultrasonic radiation''?
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The original Spanish title, ''No profanar el sueño de los muertos'', translates as ''Don't Disturb the Sleep of the Dead''. Of the film's numerous English titles, only one (''Let Sleeping Corpses Lie'') attempts to reflect the original name with any degree of accuracy. The other titles include (deep breath) ''The Living Dead'', ''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue'', ''The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue'', ''[[GallowsHumour Breakfast at Manchester Morgue]]'' and, inexplicably, ''Don't Open the Window''.
** Just to make things more confusing, on at least one occasion the film went under different titles within one release - the video box reading ''The Living Dead'' and the print itself using ''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue''.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The UK VHS release of the film in its ''Don't Open the Window'' incarnation showed a laughably crude painting of a woman looking out a window as she draws the curtains, with nary a zombie or morgue or the city of Manchester in sight. It appears that the artist hadn't seen the film and only had the title to go on.
* KillItWithFire: Implied to be the only sure-fire way of killing a zombie.
* NoSwastikas: Invoked when George mocks [=McCormick's=] authoritarian manner by saying "Heil Hitler" and doing what is clearly supposed to be a Nazi salute... only he holds out his palm in what looks more like an "I solemnly swear" gesture.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Despite their pseudo-scientific origin, the film gives its zombies some seemingly supernatural characteristics. The first zombie to be resurrected walks around the morgue bringing the corpses to life by ritualistically daubing their eyelids with his blood; he also fails to appear in photographs, hinting at vampire-like attributes (although he may simply have beenn out of shot).
* {{Streaking}}: The opening sequence shows a naked woman running through a busy street. This has no bearing on the plot and seems to be there only to emphasise the swinging nature of 1970s urban England.
A young woman named Edna goes to visit her sister on the outskirts of Manchester. Along the way she damages the motorcycle of a brash young man named George, who forces her to take him along for the ride. Once there, they find that "ultrasonic radiation" from a pest-control device is causing the dead to rise as [[FleshEatingZombie Flesh-Eating Zombies]].
As they fight off the zombies, a police sergeant named [=McCormick=] comes across the mutilated corpses and desecrated graves. Misreading the evidence, he concludes that a cult of devil-worshipping murderers are loose - and Edna and George are his prime targets.
In the eighties, the film was targeted during Britain's VideoNasties scare.
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!!''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AdjustableCensorship: In early-eighties Britain, two different versions of the film were on the market: the uncut ''The Living Dead'', and the cut ''Don't Open the Window''. The latter version escaped targeting during the video nasty scare.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Seriously, ''ultrasonic radiation''?
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The original Spanish title, ''No profanar el sueño de los muertos'', translates as ''Don't Disturb the Sleep of the Dead''. Of the film's numerous English titles, only one (''Let Sleeping Corpses Lie'') attempts to reflect the original name with any degree of accuracy. The other titles include (deep breath) ''The Living Dead'', ''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue'', ''The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue'', ''[[GallowsHumour Breakfast at Manchester Morgue]]'' and, inexplicably, ''Don't Open the Window''.
** Just to make things more confusing, on at least one occasion the film went under different titles within one release - the video box reading ''The Living Dead'' and the print itself using ''The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue''.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The UK VHS release of the film in its ''Don't Open the Window'' incarnation showed a laughably crude painting of a woman looking out a window as she draws the curtains, with nary a zombie or morgue or the city of Manchester in sight. It appears that the artist hadn't seen the film and only had the title to go on.
* KillItWithFire: Implied to be the only sure-fire way of killing a zombie.
* NoSwastikas: Invoked when George mocks [=McCormick's=] authoritarian manner by saying "Heil Hitler" and doing what is clearly supposed to be a Nazi salute... only he holds out his palm in what looks more like an "I solemnly swear" gesture.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Despite their pseudo-scientific origin, the film gives its zombies some seemingly supernatural characteristics. The first zombie to be resurrected walks around the morgue bringing the corpses to life by ritualistically daubing their eyelids with his blood; he also fails to appear in photographs, hinting at vampire-like attributes (although he may simply have beenn out of shot).
* {{Streaking}}: The opening sequence shows a naked woman running through a busy street. This has no bearing on the plot and seems to be there only to emphasise the swinging nature of 1970s urban England.
