Case Number 13050   Blue Underground // 1974 // 93 Minutes //
Unrated Reviewed by Judge Jim Thomas // February 22nd, 2008  The
Charge  A good zombie movie with an identity crisis.  Opening
Statement  When George Romero's Night of the Living Dead burst
onto the scene in 1968, it changed the face of horror. That's a
pretty bold statement, but the record bears it out. All of a
sudden, we were seeing a lot more unsavory undead types
shambling about the countryside, making scenes with their
carefree, bohemian, rip-out-your-guts-and-eat-them-as-you-
noisily-expire behavior. Most of the movies thus spawned were
little more than wretched splatter movies. In 1974, though,
Spanish director Jorge Grau crafted a genuinely creepy tale that
effectively fused two classic movie tropes: The zombie movie and
the wrongly accused on the lam tale. Originally released as
Don't Open the Window (ominous, but vague), then later as Let
Sleeping Corpses Lie (not nearly as ominous) and Brunch with the
Dead (downright stupid), the film, d