Fright Pack: Walking Dead

Anchor Bay does it again! Their fright packs are always pleasingly presented (this one is made to look like a sixer of beer), and well-thought out as far as which movies to include as a cohesive theme. Fans of zombie schlock will no doubt be delighted to have a half-dozen of their favorite films in one package at a very reasonable price (it’s going for under $30 on Amazon).

LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE - 1974: Two traveling companions, George and Edna, come across a small town infested with the "living dead" that are satisfying their cannibalistic hunger on anyone they encounter.

• Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs
• TV Spot
• Radio Spot
• Still Gallery
• Exclusive interview with director Jorge Grau

Also known as The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, Don’t Open The Window, or Breakfast at the Manchester Morgue, this Italian-Spanish production is a cult classic in the gory, sociopolitical vein of Night of the Living Dead.

The story follows George (Raymond Lovelock), a mild-mannered antique dealer who’s on a journey to visit friends but gets sidelined when his motorbike is run over by a woman driver, Edna (Cristina Galbo). Deciding it’s a good idea to get into a car with her, he hitches a ride as far as Edna’s destination — the isolated farmhouse of her sister and brother-in-law. No sooner do they park the vehicle in the town of Windermere than a red-eyed derelict jumps out of nowhere and attacks… and you can guess the rest!

If you can overlook the datedness, low budget limitations, and bad dubbing job, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is actually a decent zombie flick that stands on its own rotting two feet with its better-known Romero and Fulchi kin — and it’s all the more intriguing for its quasi-British gothic look and feel with surrealist twists that must be seen to be appreciated.

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Reviewed by Staci Layne Wilson

Also included:

CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD - 1980: The Seven gates of Hell have been torn open, and in 3 days the dead shall rise and walk the earth. A reporter and a psychic must race to close the portals of the damned.

• Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs
• Theatrical Trailer
• Radio Spot
• Talent Bios

DEAD HEAT - 1988: Violent criminals who can’t be killed are shooting up Los Angeles, and the investigation leads LAPD detectives Roger Mortis and Doug Bigelow to a mysterious pharmaceutical firm. But when Mortis is suddenly murdered and turned into the walking dead by the company’s ‘resurrection machine,’ he must solve his own homicide case before he completely decomposes.

• Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs
• Theatrical Trailer
• Poster And Still Gallery
• Original Storyboards
• Deleted Scenes
• Audio Commentary with Director Mark Goldblatt, Producers David Helpern and Michael Meltzer, and Writer Terry Black
• Original Electronic Press Kit
• MIFED Promo
• DVD-ROM: Original Screenplay

HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD - 1980: When the SWAT team arrives on a hellish island to investigate an accident at a chemical plant, they discover a plague of flesh-eating zombies as well as a beautiful female reporter who practices nude anthropology.

• Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs
• Theatrical Trailer
• Poster And Still Gallery
• Hell Rats Of The Living Dead - an all new interview with Director Bruno Mattei
• Bruno Mattei Bio

HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY - 1981: A young family moves from their cramped New York City apartment to a spacious new home in New England. But this is no ordinary house in the country: someone – or something - is alive in the basement, and home sweet home is about to become a horrific hell on earth.

• Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs
• Theatrical Trailers
• TV Spot
• Talent Bios
• Still Gallery

NIGHTMARE CITY - 1980: When a radioactive spill causes mass contamination, thousands of infected citizens are transformed into bloodthirsty undead fiends. The result is an all-out attack by fast-moving, flesh-ripping, ass- kicking maniacs that can only be stopped by a bullet to the brain.

• Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs
• Theatrical Trailer
• Tales Of The Contaminated City -- an all-new interview with Director Umberto Lenzi
• Umberto Lenzi Bio