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Also called: No profanar el sueño de los muertos, Don't Open the Window, Zombi 3: Da dove vieni?
FilmUndeadRadiation1968 to 1999

A Spanish-Italian film set in England's Lake District, in which a pest-control machine raises the dead and two travellers are blamed for the killings. It is cited as one of the first films to show zombies tearing into a living victim on screen. Critics say it foreshadowed the Italian zombie films of the 1980s.1

⚔️ Battle it
First appeared
1974
Released 1974
Source work
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
Jorge Grau
Made in
Spain, Italy
What causes it
Radiation
An experimental agricultural machine that uses ultrasonic radiation to kill insects also revives the dead.
How you become one
Bodies near the machine come back to life.
Weak spots
  • fire

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1974

Released 1974

field notes

What the sources say

1

One of the first films to show zombies tearing into a living victim on screen1

2

Giannetto De Rossi did the makeup effects1

3

Set in England's Lake District and released under about 15 titles, including Don't Open the Window1

4

Won the special effects and best actress prizes at Sitges1

5

Said to foreshadow the Italian zombie films of the 1980s1

Sources

  1. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (film) - Wikipedia

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Same era: 1968 to 1999

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