Don't Open the Window [Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, No Profanar El Sueño de Los Muertos (1974)] - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - September 15, 1976
Now best known as Let Sleeping Corpse Lie, I think I first saw Don't Open the Window when it was titled The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, maybe. I do know it was not titled Breakfast at the Manchester Morgue or Do Not Speak Ill of the Dead. My oldest and bestest friend also had the theatrical one sheet for Don't Open the Window hanging in our dorm room. The one sheets for Body Double and Godzilla 1985 were on my side of the room, by the way.

This was yet another one of a plethora of Don't titled films that were joyfully roasted in Edgar Wright's stellar mock-trailer for the fictional film Don't. I also like how the distributor for Don't Open the Window also recycled its infamous and effective tagline for Wes Craven's infamous and effective The Last House on the Left (1972).

Coupled with the release of Don't Open the Window was The House That Vanished (1973). Its original title appears to have been Scream... And Die!, but it also sported the moniker Don't Go Into the Bedroom at one point. There's that Don't moniker again.

Since the company distributing The House That Vanished just so happened to be the same one distributing Don't Open the Window, their lurid "It's Only A Movie... Only A Movie... Only A Movie..." hyperbole was once again to put to use. Hey, if ain't broke...