Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (US - BD RA)
Blue Underground announces a Blu-ray release of this Jorge Grau directed film
Title: Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (IMDb)
Starring: Ray Lovelock
Released: 27th October 2009
SRP: $29.95
Further Details:
Blue Underground has announced a Blu-ray release of The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue which stars Ray Lovelock, Christine Galbo, and Arthur Kennedy. The disc will be available to own from the 27th October, and should retail at around $29.95. The film itself will be presented in 1.85:1 widescreen, along with an upgraded 7.1 DTS-HD soundtrack. Extras will include a Back to the Morgue – On Location with Director Jorge Grau featurette, interviews with director Jorge Grau, star Ray Lovelock, and Special Effects Artist Giannetto De Rossi, a Poster and Still Gallery, theatrical trailers, TV spots, and radio spots.
Quote: Two traveling companions, George (Ray Lovelock of AUTOPSY) and Edna (Christine Galbo of THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN), come across a small town infested with the “living dead” that are satisfying their cannibalistic hunger on anyone they come across. Discovering that an agricultural machine using radiation waves is at the root of all the havoc, George and Edna fight for survival and their innocence as they are pursued by a relentless detective (Arthur Kennedy of THE ANTICHRIST and FANTASTIC VOYAGE) who is convinced they are responsible for the ghoulish acts of violence plaguing the countryside.
News by Tom Woodward
Starring: Ray Lovelock
Released: 27th October 2009
SRP: $29.95
Further Details:
Blue Underground has announced a Blu-ray release of The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue which stars Ray Lovelock, Christine Galbo, and Arthur Kennedy. The disc will be available to own from the 27th October, and should retail at around $29.95. The film itself will be presented in 1.85:1 widescreen, along with an upgraded 7.1 DTS-HD soundtrack. Extras will include a Back to the Morgue – On Location with Director Jorge Grau featurette, interviews with director Jorge Grau, star Ray Lovelock, and Special Effects Artist Giannetto De Rossi, a Poster and Still Gallery, theatrical trailers, TV spots, and radio spots.
Synopsis
Quote: Two traveling companions, George (Ray Lovelock of AUTOPSY) and Edna (Christine Galbo of THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN), come across a small town infested with the “living dead” that are satisfying their cannibalistic hunger on anyone they come across. Discovering that an agricultural machine using radiation waves is at the root of all the havoc, George and Edna fight for survival and their innocence as they are pursued by a relentless detective (Arthur Kennedy of THE ANTICHRIST and FANTASTIC VOYAGE) who is convinced they are responsible for the ghoulish acts of violence plaguing the countryside.
News by Tom Woodward
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The Let Sleeping Corpses Lie version was a re-release of the Anchor Bay version. When BU remastered the film they were working from a print with the Manchester Morgue title, so they kept it to both make the print title make sense (the credits are slightly different) and to separate it from the AB release that they'd re-released. I'm guessing that this Blu-ray is using the same print as the SE release, which is great because even on DVD it was sizably better than the already pretty good AB release.
The title-card of the UK version was always damn cool - we had the honour of watching it on the big screen with Jorge Grau in the audience, and was a blast.
THE WILSON BROS
THE WILSON BROS
Fantastic film-i own the BU disc and it's great,the blu will be awesome!
Jorge Grau's opus is the bridge between the first two entries of Romero's Dead series.
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (a misleading name, but doesn't it sound deliciously like a giallo title?) has the sense of claustrophobic suspense that Night of the Livigng Dead had in spades and has the gore (and unconventional kind of music score) of Dawn.
The cast are great (with used-to-be-a-big-star-but-now-a-washed-up-drunk Arthur Kennedy as an embittered facist police Inspector, who practically spits venom), the British locations are gorgeous to look at and the violence is quite surprising for the time (including a unscheduled mastectomy for the receptionist at a hospital.)
We can't wait for this!
The Wilson Bros
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (a misleading name, but doesn't it sound deliciously like a giallo title?) has the sense of claustrophobic suspense that Night of the Livigng Dead had in spades and has the gore (and unconventional kind of music score) of Dawn.
The cast are great (with used-to-be-a-big-star-but-now-a-washed-up-drunk Arthur Kennedy as an embittered facist police Inspector, who practically spits venom), the British locations are gorgeous to look at and the violence is quite surprising for the time (including a unscheduled mastectomy for the receptionist at a hospital.)
We can't wait for this!
The Wilson Bros
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Title b***hing aside, I'm looking forward to this. Blue Underground does a great job with these obscure horror films. I recently picked up The Bird with the Crystal Plumage on Blu-ray (not very obscure, I know) and it is awesome. Next up on my list is Dead & Buried.