The Undertaker

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The Undertaker

Similar to CRAWLSPACE (Schmoeller, '86) in that you spend too much time watching a great actor, here Joe Spinell, trapped in the amateur hour that is the other actors. Simultaneously better and worse than it should be.

A throat is cut and a pair of breasts are hanging out and the opening credits are still running . This is a lost horror film starring Joe Spinell , he is a necrophilia undertaker who kills and collects dead bodies , mega amount of gore and nudity . The version i just watched is the uncut version, 6 minutes of the master tapes where lost, so 6 minutes of this film is from a VHS rip Mainly towards the end so one minute it is HD quality the next its blurry and barely watchable , this is the only way you can see the un-cut version , Im not sure if the film was even finished . Cheap film, badly made trash, in some scenes im pretty sure the undertaker Joe Spinell was drunk while filming and seems like he wants to be asleep ..brilliantly bad stuff Its fun to watch . Classic 80s gore fest.

THE UNDERTAKER is a Z-grade shot-on-video horror film of the late 1980s, with all of the cheesiness that that scenario brings. The ever-sleazy Joe Spinell once again plays a maladjusted character in the MANIAC mould, this time working his way through a number of badly-acting supporting cast members. The film is light on the bloodshed, although it has a sleazy theme of necrophilia, but it's heavy on the tillation with endless scenes of women working out and showering. The amateur nature of the production is apparent in the bad special effects and the resort to padding with endless scenes from THE TERROR and THE CORPSE VANISHES fleshing out the running time. It's not very good.

Fans of the genre will know Spinell as Frank Zito in the cult slasher Maniac (1980). This is essentially a reprisal of that character-a haunted loner conflating sex with gore. The Undertaker is a poorly written, badly acted, cheap entry in the genre. It's perfect.

Warning, this is for Horror movie fanatics only. To be honest the acting is so bad that most people will turn it off after 5 minutes. The movie stars Joe Spinell as a psychotic and camp undertaker. Words do not do justice to how bad this is, you need to see it to believe it. Currently available on Amazon Prime.

This is truly an example of bad horror at its worst, with bad writing and uneven editing. However as Joe Spinell's last film it is an interesting curiosity of a film and it has some good moments. Spinell is not at his best here and the acting overall isn't very good however Patrick Askin turns in a good performance as Spinell's nephew. The biggest problem with the film is the editing which results in some unintentionally comic moments in particular the big confrontation scene between Spinell and his nephew. The whole scene falls flat due to choppy editing. But for die-hard horror fans this film may be watched as an exercise in scary camp.

The Code Red version of the Undertaker is a stupid mess!!!They should be ashamed of putting this disc out!!The uncut version is available at FLESHWOUNDVIDEO.COM it is much better.Scenes are in the proper order,lots of gore and nudity as well.The Code Red version makes no sense at all especially the ending!? This is Joe Spinell's best movie,next to Maniac!I'm giving the uncut version 9 out of 10,sure the picture quality is not the best,also Spinell is clearly drunk in some scenes. But this just adds to the sleaziness of the movie. You think Code Red would have done a better job trying to find the uncut version.But they have put out a lot of crap movies, I heard they are calling it quits next year?? I hope its true,Code Red sucks!!