Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974) on Netflix
George Meaning demands a lift from Edna Simmons after she damages his motorbike at a petrol station. In the countryside, a detective investigating murders treats the pair as suspects.
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Plot summary
Brought about by the use of a new, radiation emitting device intended to destroy insect's nervous systems, the dead are brought back to life due to the jump start the radiation provides to their nervous systems. After the murder of a woman's estranged husband, police suspect the woman, her sister and a relative stranger (who was only along because the sister had run into his motorcycle only hours prior) of involvement in the murder, and as the bodies begin to accumulate the police chief becomes more and more convinced of their involvement.
Cast
- Jeannine Mestreas Katie West
- Vicente Vegaas Dr. Duffield
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- According to Edgar Wright, the way the film was promoted during its exhibition in the United States was one of the inspirations for the fake trailer Don't, which appears in the 2007 release Grindhouse.
- Electric Wizard sampled dialogue from the film in the track "Wizard in Black" on their 1997 album Come My Fanatics…, used the film's poster on merchandise, and in 2004 put out a song called "The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" on We Live.
- The extreme metal band Carcass released a song titled "The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue", named after one of the film's English titles, on their 2020 Despicable EP.
