Waste of time

Did you people see the same film I saw?

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a film that really snuck up on me turning out to be a marvelous little zombie film. The story is very intricate with multiple characters being privy to scenes and spots and different ways. Unsuspecting to me too was the contrast in different feels and atmospheres of the film. Normally when I watch an English film I can tell its English, Italian from Spanish and so on. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie blends all these euro horror elements together to create an amazing unique setting and mood. The mood was doomful to boot, the zombies were unsettling and the base music was chilling. I loved the two main leads, George and Edna, they were spectacular and had great character development. The flow at times was halted with choppy edits and a couple unnecessary scenes but otherwise there is nothing major to hate. If you're a fan of Night of the Living Dead, which I can tell Jorge Grau is, you'll end up really enjoying this movie. I give it a solid 8/10 rating.

A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh by chemical pesticides being used by area farmers.That description is what IMDb says is happening. But that is off the mark. First, there is not much of a "chase". Second, there are no hippies (even if one guy has shaggy hair). Third, any murders in this film are not really Manson-style. Lastly, unless I misunderstood, the farmers were using some sort of sonic waves, not pesticides.But anyway, a fantastic Italian-Spanish-British horror film with plenty of good colors and a fun plot. Some of it makes no sense. The eyeball-eating babies are odd. The ability of zombies to teleport across town is a bit bizarre. But this only seems to add to the fun of it all.No matter what title you see this under (it seems to have at least a dozen), it has to be among the better zombie films of the 1970s. Perhaps even of all-time, but that might be a stretch. At least better than almost anything in the last decade.

I hate using the word overrated. It's very derogatory in my opinion, and sounds rather crass as well, so I'll use a more polite term. It's over- praised by Horror fans in my opinion. I actually thought this might end up being something special when I first started this one. It was very atmospheric and has a rather tense first zombie sighting, but then that's where the problems started with me. It moves like molasses. It's very slow moving, and my interest started to wane big time. I also had trouble getting invested into the two lead characters. Cristina Galbó;s whiny performance grated my nerves quickly. I found her to be very unsympathetic in my opinion. Ray Lovelock tries to play it all cool, but he was rather nonchalant and annoying. I didn't care for him at all. Arthur Kennedy is even worse. His performance as the inspector quickly tested my patience. His anger wasn't enjoyable to watch. Chill. The gore is decent, but nothing like you'd see in a lot of zombie flicks. The zombies themselves are actually pretty creepy; too bad the movie is so boringFinal Thoughts: This tries to rely on atmosphere, but it failed miserably. The slow pace, the grating characters, and overall lack of thrills sink this one. It seems to have a big cult following, so maybe it's just me…4/10

The Good News: When this one came out, everyone was trying to generate the buzz that came from earlier films, and this Spanish film is one of the better ones. The first attack, while being threatening and scary in it's own right, is a complete influence from the opening attack to those movies, and it plays out pretty much the same as well. It's very thrilling, and really gets to you. The film also contains another throw- back to another earlier film in that the subliminal themes undercurrent in the film are present in the film. The cause of resurrection for the zombies is blamed on an environmental problem, and the undercurrents gathered from it are directly responsible. We bump up the gore significantly from the previous films, and it makes it much more interesting to see. There is the usual disemboweling, a couple of amputations, and several giant blood-spurts from other kills involved. There's much more gore in here as well, too much to mention, so it doesn't need it. Also, this is the main cause from all the zombie action in this film, and we get a large amount of it as well. The entire last half-hour is completely full of action, including an entire part taking place inside a morgue. That just ups the action a lot, and it sends the movie out on a high. Which is exactly what is needed in a film like this. Even better, the zombies get a couple of creepy scenes. The first attack is one, and a later sequence about them rising up from the ground is practically dripping with suspense, and it even gets a cheap jump as well that actually works with the way the movie was heading. There is a lot more, but I can't spoil anything else.The Bad News: The film does have two things I wasn't that impressed with: the zombies, and the detective story. The zombies don't have a large amount of facial distortion to give them their look, and instead just use the standard make-on the face to create the overall look. Later in the film, they look much better, but there still are the other kind as well. They just don't look like how zombies should look. Then, the detective story is pretty preposterous, and it doesn't really gel that well with the rest of the movie. It's creative and such, but it seems weird to the rest of the movie.