Jorge Grau

We did find the Korean source that claims it was a Kia Brisa, however, the grille, headlights, and logos are clearly different from the movie's car.

We also want to note that this film plagiarized the Italian-slash-Spanish film Let Sleeping Horses Lie from 1974 by the director Jorge Grau.

As a disclaimer, this version of the film we watched was restored by the Korean Film Archive and was uploaded to YouTube in 2021.

There's a statement at the beginning of the video about this that says, The original film was lost and Korean Film Archive has restored and transferred to be digitally remastered in HD.

Yeah, that was pretty nasty.

I wonder if all of this was intentional.

Did the director emphasize this lack of hygiene for a reason? Like, did it symbolize something?

This is the type of movie that I feel like you would watch in a film class or even a literature class to look for all the imagery, what kind of metaphors you can get out of it.

Jorge Grau's 1974 zombie masterpiece, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, is one of cinema's enduring greats within the horror genre, and for good reason.

With three central performances by Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, and Tony Award-winning Arthur Kennedy, the film is a masterclass in pacing, sound design, and world building.

Set primarily in the north of England during a time when Euro directors were heading to the UK for the backdrop to their films, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue is deceptively simple.

But under those genre tropes is a film of thematic depth, so much so that I've brought back three friends of the show, Scott West, Matt Rotman, and Phil DeGlass, to help me discuss, dissect, and deep dive Jorge Grau's eco-horror, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue.

[suspenseful music] Welcome, welcome, all you ghouls, ghouls, and ghastly goblins.

This is In Film We Trust, and I am your host, Liam "The King Count Cult" Carmello, here to proselytize all things cinema from the obscure to the mainstream.

Now, it may not be zombies that do us in, but it's going to be something.

It's just a matter of time.