THE DEAD RISE LIKE NEVER BEFORE WHEN SYNAPSE FILMS BRINGS THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE (1974) TO BLU-RAY THIS SEPTEMBER!
A 3-DISC (BD+DVD+CD) LIMITED STEELBOOK EDITION OF JORGE GRAU'S HORROR CLASSIC!ONLY 6000 UNITS PRODUCED!
THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE (1974)
Label: Synapse Films
Release Date: September 1st, 2020
Region: Region-FREE
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 93 Minutes
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1, Stereo Surround and Original Mono (Blu) & English Dolby Digital 5.1, Stereo Surround and Original Mono (DVD)
Director: Jorge Grau
Cast: Ray Lovelock; Arthur Kennedy; Christine Galbo
“This is one of my favourite zombie films of them all; a genuinely chilling UK set horror...” – Edgar Wright. Director of Baby Driver and Shaun of the Dead
"[A] still-startling nightmare creation that was years ahead of its time." - Mitch Davis, Fantasia Film Festival
With its revolutionary mix of shocking-for-its-time violence and sociopolitical themes, George A. Romero's 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead quickly proved to be enormously influential with filmmakers around the world, and few were able to match its power like Jorge Grau's The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue. Mixing a strong environmental statement with unforgettably terrifying set pieces, Grau's film stands on its own as a horror classic, and now it's been restored to its horrifying glory by Synapse Films in an exclusive new Steelbook release!
A strange twist of fate brings two young travelers, George (Ray Lovelock, The Cassandra Crossing) and Edna (Christine Galbo, The House That Screamed), to a small town where an experimental agricultural
machine may be bringing the dead back to life! As zombies infest the area and attack the living, a bull-headed detective (Academy Award nominee Arthur Kennedy, Peyton Place) thinks the couple are Satanists responsible for the local killings. George and Edna have to fight for their lives, and prove their innocence, as they try and stop the impending zombie apocalypse!
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie and Don’t Open the Window) is a gory horror tale from Spanish director Jorge Grau and widely considered to be one of the best zombie films ever made. Beautifully restored in 4K from the original camera negative, Synapse Films presents the film for the FIRST TIME EVER on Blu-ray with the true original English theatrical mono mix and the real opening and closing credit sequences intact
Special Features:
- Exclusive new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative
- New 5.1 English stereo surround remix made exclusively for the Synapse Films release
- Two audio commentaries featuring authors and film scholars Troy Howarth, Nathaniel Thompson and Bruce Holecheck
- Restoration of the true original English language theatrical mono mix
- Jorge Grau - Catalonia’s Cult Film King (89 mins.) – This extensive feature-length documentary explores the life and films of director Jorge Grau (BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVE)
- The Scene of the Crime - Giannetto De Rossi in Discussion from Manchester (16 Mins.) (BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVE)
- Giannetto De Rossi - Q&A at the Festival of Fantastic Films, UK (43 Mins) (BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVE)
- Theatrical trailer, TV spots and radio spots
- Newly translated removable English SDH subtitles
- Liner notes booklet featuring writing from Spanish film scholar, Dr. Nicholas Schlegel
- Exclusive CD soundtrack of the haunting original score by Giuliano Sorgini
- Exclusive Steelbook™ artwork by Wes Benscoter
- Poster of Wes Benscoter's Steelbook artwork
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The 6000 unit THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Steelbook™ is available exclusively through the Synapse Films website at: www.synapse-films.com. The retail price is $49.95 ($43.95, plus $6.00 packing/handling fee) with a street date of September 1, 2020. Shipping to customers will commence on that date, or as soon as the release is received at Synapse Films. If they come earlier than the September 1 release date, they will ship to customers earlier.
All North American orders fulfilled and shipped via our San Francisco distributor, CAV Distribution. For questions regarding the shipping of your order in North America, please contact CAV Distribution via this email address: morgue@cavd.com. All international orders will be handled via the fine folks at DiabolikDVD (www.diabolikdvd.com).
This release of THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE is REGION FREE.
