The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue / Horror Express


Quartet Records (8436035001743)
Movie | Release date: 09/20/2010 | Format: CD
Limited edition: 500 copies
 

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# Track   Duration
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue composed by Giuliano Sorgini
1.John Dalton Street2:24
2.Surreal2:33
3.Trance1:47
4.Strait Jacket2:26
5.The Raisen Dead3:16
6.Agression1:19
7.The Death of the Dead2:36
8.The Torment of the Dead2:23
9.Mysterious Country1:35
10.Southgate Hospital1:44
11.The Living Dead2:25
12.Drawned Guthrie2:18
13.George2:05
14.Manchester M2 GLD2:26
15.Edna1:21
 
Horror Express composed by John Cacavas
16.Main Title2:05
17.Icy Search2:35
18.Ballet – Russian2:15
19.The Journey Begins1:38
20.Pujaro’s Theme0:52
21.Deadly Pursuit1:41
22.Train0:39
23.Fugue2:29
24.End Title3:01
 49:52
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Horror Express (1972)

Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti (1974)
Quartet Records is proud to presents another two of the most essential European horror titles, both combined in a newly remastered CD.

The Living Dead At the Manchester Morgue (aka No profanar el sueño de los muertos, aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, 1974), is a real classic of Spanish horror cinema, and is considerer one of the best zombie films ever made. Directed by Jordi Grau (Historia de una chica sola, Il Peccato), and starring Cristina Galbó, Raymond Lovelock and Arthur Kennedy. The plot tells the bizarre story of corpses back to life in a cementery in Manchester, caused by radiations used by the government for destroying insects pests, wich affects the nervous system of the bodies that have died recently. But far from being a simple tale of horror, Grau's message is clearly ecological and socio-political, portrayed through the fascist police played by Kennedy, and his distrut of the young people and their new way of thinking about the world.

Italian composer Giuliano Sorgine provides the film with a surprising and unusual film score, still quite innovative at his date. Voices, cries, medieval instruments or electronics, are some of the elements that Sorgini use to create his uneasy sound design. Additionaly, the composer also offers disturbing beat rhythms for the Main Title sequence ('John Dalton Street').

Horror Express (aka Pánico en el Transiberiano, 1972) was directed by Eugenio Martín (with the pseudonym of Gene Martin), and starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savallas. The film, wisely directed, is a clear debt from the Hammer aesthetic, starting for the star duo. This was, also, the first film score composed by John Cacavas (Kojac, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, Airport 1975 ), who was recommended to the producers for his friend Telly Savallas.

Cacavas composes a sticky melody of clear Russian roots and is further rich in rythms and atmospheres. Unfortunately, one 1/4 reel contains the original recordings, and found in the Mercury Films vaults, is damaged beyond repair. So, we’ve had to use the re-recording Cacavas himself conducted a couple of years later. Luckily all key material written for the film has been preserved this way and in a performance very much alike the original one.

The package includes a 20-page full color booklet, with extensives liner notes by Ángel García Romero

Other releases of Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti (1974):

Paura Nella Città dei Morti Viventi / The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue (1995)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
Invasion der Zombies (2003)
Living Dead At Manchester Morgue, The (2017)

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Green Fire / Bhowani Junction (2003)
Black Bird, The (2010)
Desire Under the Elms (2008)
Bodyguard, The (2012)
Contract on Cherry Street (1999)
Bring me the Head of Alfredo García (2012)
Prayer for the Dying, A (2014)
Maxie (2010)
What's New, Pussycat? / Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (2011)
Secret Weapons Over Normandy (2003)


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