The Dead Are Alive

The Dead Are Alive is a 1972 giallo film by Italian director Armando Crispino, with music by Riz Ortolani, and starring Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar and John Marley. It was released in Germany as Das Geheimnis des gelben Grabes, in France as Overtime, and in Spain as El dios de la muerte asesina otra vez. The film was produced by Artur Brauner and the story was based on a giallo novel written by Bryan Edgar Wallace.

Cast

Alex Cord as Prof. Jason Porter
Samantha Eggar as Myra Shelton
John Marley as Nikos Samarakis
Enzo Tarascio as Inspector Giuranna
Carlo De Mejo as Igor Samarakis
Horst Frank as Stephen
Enzo Cerusico as Alberto
Daniela Surina as Irene
Vladan Milasinovic as Otello
Christiane Von Blank as Velia
Mario Maranzana as Vitanza
Pier Luigi D'Orazio as Minelli
Wendy D'Olive as Giselle
Ivan Pavicevac as Policeman
Nadja Tiller as Leni Schongauer Samarakis

Plot

Two young people looking for a place to make love are brutally murdered in an Etruscan tomb which had recently been violated by a group of archaeologists, led by Prof. Porter. The corpses are positioned so as to indicate they were murdered as sacrifices to the Etruscan Death-god Tuchucha. Several other murders occur, focusing on members of the archeology team and friends of Prof. Porter's. The victims have their heads bashed.