684/008151 PRESIDENCIA DEL SENADO

LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE (1974), BURIAL GROUND (1981), BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR (2003): In these films, zombies attack human characters by ripping or biting off their nip- ples. Ouch!

ZOMBIE (1979): The horrifying splinter- through-the-eye shot remains an indelible image. But the stunning undersea battle between zombie and a live shark will likely never be attempted again.

TEENAGE ZOMBIES (1959): A zombie gorilla! He looks just like a normal gorilla . . . but slower. Not as exciting as you would think but nonetheless bizarre.

KING OF THE ZOMBIES (1941), REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES (1943), CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (1955), THE FROZEN DEAD (1966), SHOCK WAVES (1977), OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES (1981), ZOMBIE LAKE (1981), HARD ROCK ZOMBIES (1985), BRAINDEAD (1992): Oddly enough, all of these films (among many others) feature Nazis prominently. Why so many zombie films return to this subject remains a mystery.

BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR (2003): A zombie rat battles a severed, zombified part of the male anatomy—and, even more amazingly, seems to actually lose to the vicious pecker. It’s weird beyond words.

REVENGE OF THE LIVING DEAD GIRLS (1987): A zombie bites off a very sensitive part of the male anatomy. At least it doesn’t come to life on its own later.

ZOMBIE LAKE (1981), MR. VAMPIRE (1985), I WAS A TEENAGE ZOMBIE (1987), DEATH BECOMES HER (1992): Some examples of zom- bies ignoring the living and fighting with each other!

HARD ROCK ZOMBIES (1985): A hungry zombie eats himself all up.

BIO-ZOMBIE (1998): In a bizarre scene a lovelorn zombie sushi chef rescues the woman of his dreams from a rampaging mob of his own kind. Strangely, it appears as though he is eaten raw by the zombies for his efforts, even though he is already one of the undead.

LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE (1974), BURIAL GROUND (1981), BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR

(2003): In these films, zombies attack human characters by ripping or biting off their nip- ples. Ouch!

ZOMBIE (1979): The horrifying splinter-

through-the-eye shot remains an indelible image. But the stunning undersea battle between zombie and a live shark will likely never be attempted again.

TEENAGE ZOMBIES (1959): A zombie gorilla!

He looks just like a normal gorilla . . . but slower. Not as exciting as you would think but nonetheless bizarre.

KING OF THE ZOMBIES (1941), REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES (1943), CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (1955), THE FROZEN DEAD

(1966), SHOCK WAVES (1977), OASIS OF THE

ZOMBIES (1981), ZOMBIE LAKE (1981), HARD ROCK ZOMBIES (1985), BRAINDEAD (1992):

Oddly enough, all of these films (among many others) feature Nazis prominently. Why so many zombie films return to this subject remains a mystery.

BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR (2003): A zombie rat

battles a severed, zombified part of the male anatomy—and, even more amazingly, seems to actually lose to the vicious pecker. It’s weird beyond words.

REVENGE OF THE LIVING DEAD GIRLS (1987): A

zombie bites off a very sensitive part of the male anatomy. At least it doesn’t come to life on its own later.

ZOMBIE LAKE (1981), MR. VAMPIRE (1985), I WAS A TEENAGE ZOMBIE (1987), DEATH BECOMES HER (1992): Some examples of zom-

bies ignoring the living and fighting with each other!

HARD ROCK ZOMBIES (1985): A hungry zombie

eats himself all up.

BIO-ZOMBIE (1998): In a bizarre scene a

lovelorn zombie sushi chef rescues the woman of his dreams from a rampaging mob of his own kind. Strangely, it appears as though he is eaten raw by the zombies for his efforts, even though he is already one of the undead.

SUGAR HILL (1974): Zombie rubdown! An evil henchman, the amusingly named “Fabulous,” enjoys a massage. Then he turns over to dis- cover that he’s being worked on by a blood- thirsty army of the undead.

QUATERMASS 2 (1957), NEON MANIACS (1986), ZOMBIE 4: AFTER DEATH (1988), LAND OF THE DEAD (2005), GRINDHOUSE: “PLANET TER- ROR” (2007), DAY OF THE DEAD (2008): Armies of the undead indeed! Zombies get smart and learn how to fire machine guns!

DEAD HEAT (1988), DEAD MEAT (2004): Killer zombie animals! In Dead Heat a zombie pig attacks Joe Piscopo, followed by a gutted cow from a meat locker; Dead Meat features yet another hungry zombie cow.

I, ZOMBIE: A CHRONICLE OF PAIN (1998): The zombie movie obsession with the schlong con- tinues in this film, in which a recently

deceased man masturbates with horrifying results.

SARS WARS: BANGKOK ZOMBIE CRISIS (2004): A police detective lectures and interrogates a headless zombie that is still shooting blood out of its neck where its cranium used to be.

MANIAC COP 3: BADGE OF SILENCE (1993): It’s hardly worth the time, but any smokers who wait until the end will see a cigarette lit by a flaming zombie appendage.

SHANKS (1974), SUGAR HILL (1974): Murder committed by undead chickens!

BRAINDEAD (1992): Pretty much all of Brain- dead is notably bizarre, but one image in par- ticular is more than difficult to forget: the literal ingestion and rebirth of the hero through his disgustingly mutated mother’s womb and out her birth canal!

GRINDHOUSE: “PLANET TERROR” (2007): An amorous zombie (played by Quentin Taran- tino) watches as his manhood melts before his eyes, dripping in gooey, cringe-inducing lumps between the Oscar winner’s legs. DIARY OF THE DEAD (2008): A deaf Amish farmer goes nutzoid, using dynamite and a scythe in some very creative ways on numer- ous unlucky zombies.

SUGAR HILL (1974): Zombie rubdown! An evil

henchman, the amusingly named “Fabulous,” enjoys a massage. Then he turns over to dis- cover that he’s being worked on by a blood- thirsty army of the undead.

QUATERMASS 2 (1957), NEON MANIACS (1986), ZOMBIE 4: AFTER DEATH (1988), LAND OF THE DEAD (2005), GRINDHOUSE: “PLANET TER-

ROR” (2007), DAY OF THE DEAD (2008): Armies of the undead indeed! Zombies get smart and learn how to fire machine guns!

DEAD HEAT (1988), DEAD MEAT (2004): Killer

zombie animals! In Dead Heat a zombie pig attacks Joe Piscopo, followed by a gutted cow from a meat locker; Dead Meat features yet another hungry zombie cow.

I, ZOMBIE: A CHRONICLE OF PAIN (1998): The

zombie movie obsession with the schlong con- tinues in this film, in which a recently

deceased man masturbates with horrifying results.

SARS WARS: BANGKOK ZOMBIE CRISIS (2004):

A police detective lectures and interrogates a headless zombie that is still shooting blood out of its neck where its cranium used to be.

MANIAC COP 3: BADGE OF SILENCE (1993): It’s

hardly worth the time, but any smokers who wait until the end will see a cigarette lit by a flaming zombie appendage.

SHANKS (1974), SUGAR HILL (1974): Murder

committed by undead chickens!

BRAINDEAD (1992): Pretty much all of Brain- dead is notably bizarre, but one image in par-

ticular is more than difficult to forget: the literal ingestion and rebirth of the hero through his disgustingly mutated mother’s womb and out her birth canal!

GRINDHOUSE: “PLANET TERROR” (2007): An

amorous zombie (played by Quentin Taran- tino) watches as his manhood melts before his eyes, dripping in gooey, cringe-inducing lumps between the Oscar winner’s legs.

DIARY OF THE DEAD (2008): A deaf Amish

farmer goes nutzoid, using dynamite and a scythe in some very creative ways on numer- ous unlucky zombies.

While few could have predicted it at the time, this Spanish/Italian effort, also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, Don’t Open the Window, and Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti, foreshadowed the types of blood-drenched Italian zombie movies that would become prevalent in the 1980s. Director Jorge Grau admitted in an interview that his producers simply wanted a Night of the Living Dead (1968) knockoff, but one filmed in color. Grau did his best to add more realism to the fantastical story and even studied autopsy pho- tographs to mimic the look of real cadavers. His hard work paid off, making this film the most

effective and disturbing Spanish production of the period.

But there’s subtext too; Let Sleeping Corpses Lie makes its ecological message clear early on. The film opens with an effective montage of English locations, featuring garbage, grimy smokestacks, steam rising from the cooling towers of a nuclear plant, and, most frightening of all, a naked, ugly local streaking through the streets. While one of the alternate titles suggests that the story takes place in the city of Manchester, that is not in fact the case; our grouchy hero George (Ray Lovelock) and his romantic interest Edna (Cristina Galbó) actually end up stranded in the small town of Windermere.

An elderly zombie awakens from her daily nap to cause havoc in Let Sleeping Corpses Lie. © Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche/Star Films S.A.