Weird weather here in California. This week we saw temperatures hit an all time record high in Downtown Los Angeles. Topping at an incredible 113 degree heat, it’s the hottest temperature ever recorded in L.A. Today, it’s pouring outside in a partly cloudy day. Strange way to welcome my favorite month; October.

Why is it my favorite? Well not only is my birthday tomorrow, but I have Halloween to look forward to. The constant “scary” shows on television, all of the “Halloween” movies playing throughout the month…I can hardly wait.

So in honor of this scary month, I’ll start off Friday Video with one of the most underrated zombie films off all time: “The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue”

Wiki:

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Italian title: Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti)^[1], also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue^[1] is a 1974 horror film written and directed by Jorge Grau and starring Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy and Cristina Galbó.

The film begins with George on a trip from his Antique shop in Manchester to the Lake District to work on a new house with some of his friends. On the way his Norton motorcycle is accidentally damaged by Edna while reversing her Mini Cooper at a petrol station. He demands she give him a lift to his destination. Edna is on her way to visit her troubled sister and asks to go to South Gate first then George can use the car to get to his new house in Windermere.

George asks directions from men using an experimental machine from Department of Agriculture in a field. It is supposed to cause all insects to fight each other and die using ultra-sonics. The couple get lost in the country lanes in the darkness. First victim is Martin, a photographer killed by a tramp who drowned a week ago. Edna’s drug addict sister Katie West (married to Martin) barely escapes and is found by George and Edna.

When they report the death, the aggressive police Sergeant thinks that Katie did it. George, forced to stay in South Gate takes the roll of film from Martin’s camera (now in the police car) to a chemist in town to have it developed. They book into The Old Owl Hotel. Katie has had a breakdown and is put into a local hospital. At the hospital, it turns out that babies are affected too, biting people with homicidal intensity. Range of machine is upto a mile, but is hoped to reach 5 miles soon. It affects primitive nervous systems only.

I hope you guys enjoy this movie. If you’re interested in owning it, Amazon has it for a fairly cheap price. This one is a classic!