Capital Celluloid 2012 - Day 38: Tuesday Feb 7

The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (Grau, 1974):
The Jackalope
98 Stoke Newington Church Street, London, N16, 8pm

The Exploding Head Film Club is back - and with a bang. The return couldn't be more impressive with one of the great cult movies and one very rarely seen. Here is the Exploding Head club's Facebok page for more details.

Time Out review:

'Although made in the Lake District with a mainly dubbed cast, Arthur Kennedy as a very American English policeman, and a plot indebted to Night of the Living Dead, this works against all the odds. Through intelligent handling of locations, England becomes a very bleak place indeed, full of sinister quietness. Hero and heroine, thrown together by chance, find themselves pursued by both police and an army of cannibalistic living dead through this increasingly nightmarish landscape. It's a film of unrelieved blackness, from the seedy photographer who snaps his junkie wife cowering in the bath to homicidal babies, from mongol child at a petrol station to Kennedy's brutal sergeant. It's all the more absurdly fatalistic for refusing to draw political, moral or social conclusions.'
Verina Glaessner



Here is the trailer.

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