The Undertaker (1988 film)

The Undertaker also released as Death Merchant is a 1988 slasher film starring Joe Spinell and directed by Franco Steffanino. The film was completed in November 1988, but was never released for the public and existed only in an incomplete form. The Undertaker was later reedited for a DVD release by Code Red in 2010. The film is considered a cult classic, due in part to both Joe Spinells involvement and its troubled production. This was Joe Spinells last film before his premature death in 1989.

The film was made on location in New York, New York and was produced by Double Helix Films. Filming for The Undertaker was completed in November 1988.The film was never released to theatres or to video, and the only known copy belonged to Joe Spinell, who died not long afterward. The film circulated as a bootleg for years, before Code Red released an edited version of the film on DVD in October 2010. The release was padded with other public domain films to increase running time, was titled Death Merchant in the opening titles, and scene were both cut and rearranged from the bootleg version. ........

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