I saw this for the first time recently and i didn't enjoy this.

I saw this only aft reading Coventry's glowing review.

The lead moustachioed actor Alex Cord looks like a poor man's Anthony Quinn.

The body count is low n the film very lengthy.

After a while i felt so irritated that i stopped caring who's killing who n why.

The only good part is the sun soaked settings n the dressing sense of the characters.

There is a sadistic character who burns spiders n grasshoppers n i expected the guy to at least pay for his karma.

The English title is very misleading as there ain't any dead coming alive and the movie has absolutely nothing to do with zombies. Its a boring murder mystery.

Originally known as L'etrusco Uccide Ancora (The Etruscan Kills Again),this film comes to us from Armando Crispino, who made the quite enjoyable Autopsy and the fabulously named Frankenstein Italian Style. It's based on a novel by Bryan Edgar Wallace, the son of the man who gave inspiration to both the krimi and giallo genres.

It was released in Germany as Das Geheimnis des Gelben Grabes (Mystery of the Gold Diggers),in France as Overtime and as El Dios de la Muerte Asesina Otra Vez (The Death God Kills Again) in Spain.

Two young folks are looking for a place to load the clown in the cannon, but while they're aardvarking they are murdered within an Etruscan tomb. Oh, if only that tomb hadn't recently been violated by Professor Porter (Alex Cord, Chosen Survivors) and his team of archaeologists!

Because of how the bodies are positioned, it seems as if they were sacrificed to the ancient Etruscan god Tuchulcha. The bodies soon pile up, but soon, as the title says, the dead seem to be alive. This is a giallo, but more on the supernatural side of the genre. If you're looking for a movie that makes sense, you know - you're watching the wrong kind of movies.

Samantha Eggar (Demonoid) shows up as Cord's ex-wife, as does John Marley (who woke up with a horse's head in his bed in The Godfather) as her rich new husband, as well as Wendi D'Olive from The Bloodstained Butterfly. Riz Ortolani makes it all better with his soundtrack, too.

The nice thing for non-hardcore fans of giallo is that this movie has the actual dialogue by the original actors, so it doesn't suffer from a bad dubbing. It also has plenty of great locations and 70's fashion, which makes it feel pretty fun once it gets past its initial slow going.

An effectively murky and labyrinthine giallo yarn in which those crazy Italians get up to all sorts of tricks. First and foremost is the leading character of Jason Porter, a fairly unlikable anti-hero with a shady background, who gets blamed by the police for the murders and must discover the identity of the killer to prove his own innocence - if you think this set-up is familiar, you may have seen Jon Finch starring in Hitchcock's FRENZY or witnessed one of the many other "wronged man" thrillers made over the years. Director Armando Crispino's direction is efficient and sometimes stylish, and THE ETRUSCAN KILLS AGAIN offers up all the red herrings, twists, turns, suspects, and brutal moments that you could wish for in a giallo yarn.

However, this is not all this film offers. In an almost slapdash series of plot elements, we are given a screeching car chase (in which you can almost smell the burning rubber) to rival those of the Italian polizia movies; supernatural elements at the beginning of the film, which with the use of heavy, guttural breathing, and a shady presence hint at a zombie returning from the grave to wreak vengeance; a fantastic and surprising car crash stunt; gory scenes of people being beaten to bloody pulps; and finally, the ferocious fight which marks the film's close and is one of the best hero-vs-villain battles I've seen in an Italian flick - short, violent and extremely realistic. All of the above takes place whilst Verdi's Requiem plays intermittently over the soundtrack, deafeningly loud and stylish to boot.

In the end, THE ETRUSCAN KILLS AGAIN works due to some larger-than-life characters and a stronger cast than usual. Alex Cord's archaeologist may not be the most likable of screen leads but he gives his character a commanding presence which makes you unable to take your eyes off him. Samantha Eggar (THE BROOD) is still sufficiently attractive in her youth to provide a worthwhile woman-in-peril, whilst Horst Frank and Carlo De Mejo flesh out the minor characters of the story. However, the familiar-looking John Marley steals all of their thunder as a sadistic orchestra conductor (!) who frequently flies off the handle to good effect. Although it's sometimes muddled and too murky for its own good, THE ETRUSCAN KILLS AGAIN is a watchable giallo movie, and if it's no classic then at least it whiles away a quiet evening with its heady combination of essential plot ingredients.