Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, aka The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, aka any other number of titles you care to throw at it (including, perhaps strangest of all, Don’t Go Near the Window) definitely belongs to the upper tier of the many, many zombie movies made on the cheap following the success of Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. It tells the story of George, a Londoner, who travels north to the Lake District to meet a business associate. Following an accident on his bike, he accepts a lift from Edna, who is heading the same way to help admit her heroin-addicted sister to a clinic. Things go awry when Edna is attacked by a man who supposedly died the previous week, and when a string of other grizzly deaths take place, the local police are quick to point the finger of blame at George. Are the dead really coming to life, and can it have anything to do with the experimental crop treatments being carried out nearby? Read more

Village of the Damned (1960)

There was a time, if oft-quoted legends are to be believed, when an Englishman could leave his home unlocked without fear of being robbed blind by hoards of smacked-up hoodies. Indeed, so pervasive were English good-manners that we managed to conquer a third of the globe with them. Nations cowered not before our fleets and armaments but in deference to our irresistible gentility. Is it coincidental that the arrival of The Beatles and the ‘permissive society’ heralded the decline of our Empire? I think not. Read more