Movie Pairing - Food Shortage Creates Zombies

It's been about a month since the mainstream media has backed off a story that shocked the hell outta me. It was one of the first reports of a food shortage in the U.S. The big discount warehouse stores like Costco were limiting the amount of rice and cooking oil their customers could buy. While, the amount being limited was still huge, it's definitely a cause for alarm. People were beginning to horde some food staples, even if that group was still small the concern is still there.





More recently the food story has changed a bit. Biofuel production and research (because it uses corn) has been blamed for the shortages and, along with rising cost of fuel, food prices have gone up. The big story this Memorial Day weekend was... "It's going to cost you more to fire up the BBQ"

- "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" a.k.a. "Don't Open the Window" a.k.a. "The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue" (1974) -

This scenario reminded me of a movie I recently saw... "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie," or as it was called in the U.S. "Don't Open the Window." I was inspired to watch the movie after watching Edgar Wright's segment on Trailers from Hell.com (which surprisingly isn't there), about how this movie was sort of the inspiration for his "Grindhouse," "Don't" fake trailer. The movie is about two people who come across the living dead in a rural town in the U.K. Apparently the dead have been brought back to life because of a farming device that sends ultrasonic sound waves through the ground to work as a no-chemical pesticide. But the frequencies are waking up the dead and turning newborn babies into rage infested bundles of violence. While the dead may not walk again, this idea isn't so far fetched. With genetically modified crops and other advances in technology that messes with our food, is it so hard to believe that something could go wrong? I have a feeling the more desperate we become to find new food sources or enhance the amount of food crops produce... even new fuel sources, we will tend to overlook something that could possibly be detrimental to the human race. Maybe its not zombies, but it could be something less apparent that's waiting to eat our brains.