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best movie i've ever seen.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The Etruscans seem to have existed in Italy before the Romans, or at the same time - I can't be bothered checking. In this overlong but entertaining Giallo, alcoholic archaeologist Alex Cord finds a buried tomb and starts taking pictures of it using a probe. One sudden rainstorm later, the probe has gone missing and two teenagers have their faces graphically smashed in with that very probe!As usual, the suspects are numerous. Alex is in Italy for this dig, but he's also hanging around with his ex-partner Myra, who is now married to John Marley, a jerk composer who is prone to having tantrums and taking out his rage on his assistant Irene. John lives in a huge mansion (do I even have to mention that bit?) with his son Igor, his girlfriend and others. Also, Horst Frank puts in a hilarious over the top performance as the 'faggot' choreographer, who even performs a little pirouette when Alex starts chasing him!Someone keeps stealing shows from this show they're all putting on and leaving them with the corpses, but blame naturally falls on Alex, as due to the boozing, he keeps having blackouts. It doesn't help that the security guard on site loves killing insects, is selling the artefacts, and is now blackmailing Alex.At first we're led to believe that an Etruscan demon has risen from the dead and is killing folk, but then would a demon announce its presence by playing a Dictaphone of classical music? Someone is a serial killer, but there's a lot of digging to do before Alex can clear his name. This is a solid giallo but just a wee bit too long, what with Alex and Myra and John Marley's love triangle thing, and a few of the characters are a bit bland. The blunt trauma killings are a bit shocking, and Horst Frank, with his orange afro(!), helps proceedings.The Etruscans would return in more genuinely undead form in Andrea Biachni's Burial Ground!

This film begins with a professor of archaeology by the name of "Jason Porter" (Alex Cord) discovering an underground chamber which turns out to be an ancient Etruscan tomb of sorts. Naturally, this delights him and his team but one local person named "Nikos Samarakis" (John Marley) is not at all pleased with the fact that Jason plans to stay in the area for an extended time to continue his research as his current wife "Myra Shelton" (Samantha Egger) used to be married to Jason and still seems to harbor feelings for him. Things become even more complicated when two lovers are killed in the tomb and their bodies are aligned to make it appear to be sacrifices to the evil Etruscan demon upon which the tomb was initially built. In any case, in my opinion this picture turned out to be more of a mystery film than a horror movie and in that regard it definitely kept my attention for the most part. I must say, however, that the plot was sometimes difficult to follow with several unappealing characters not really helping matters. Even so this wasn't a bad movie overall and I have rated it accordingly. Average.

The reason this being one of the more obscure Giallos (or as purist would say: Gialli), can be blamed on "clever" promoters, who had hoped to cover more bases than were available. In the US they tried to market this off as a Living Dead flick. Needless to say that those expecting zombies were none too happy when no walking corpses appeared in the film. In Germany on the other hand, the film was marketed under the Titel "Das Geheimnis des Gelben Grabes" ("Secret of the Yellow Grave") as a Edgar Wallace movie. True, this novel was written by AN Edgar Wallace but not THE Edgar Wallace, and similarly, the fans of "Kraut Krimis" were disappointed, even though the film counts as final Edgar Wallace flick that was produced by veteran Artur Brauner.So we better stick with the alternative English-title, "Etruscan lives again", and yes, the film has all the hallmarks of a Giallo: a mix of Psycho-Thriller, Who-dunnit, mix with gratuitous nudity, sex and violence.The story itself is rather simple: An archaeologist Jason Porter discovers an ancient Etruscan grave in Tuscany. The grave features frightening wall-painting to Tuchulcha, an Etruscan demon of death and destruction. The excavation-sight happens to be under the property of the despotic musical-director Samarakis. This creates a great deal of tension, since Samarakis is married to Porters Ex-wife Myra. But jealousy and sexual tension takes a back-step, when a mysterious killer stalks the area, killing couples whom he catches in the process of love-making and disposes his victims with an Etruscan mallet. Soon everybody finds himself on the list of suspects and everyone seems to have their own skeletons in the closet: Jason, who still battles with the demons of alcoholism and having been confined to a mental-ward, the shady Samarakis, the gay Theatre-director Stephen and many other, all who seem to share some seedy background.Like with most Gialli, "seedy" is one of the keywords. The Gialli was always considered the dirty cousin of the squeaky clean Kraut-Krimi, laden with lurid psycho-sexual images and sadistic violence, that's constantly pending between art and Slasher. "Etruscan lives again" makes no exception. The cast is well picked, all do a fine job and, as suitable, the viewer is never quiet sure if and which figure deserves any sympathy at all. That includes protagonist Alex Cord, whom the American audience will likely best remember for his role as one-eyed Michael in "Airwolf". Horst Frank, although only having a relatively minor role, steals the show as we had often done in this type of movie. Despite his character being a homosexual, Frank with his burning glare comes across as menacing and threatening as ever. Wonderful soundtrack, as is to be expected from veteran Riz Ortolani (though his sometimes schmaltzy sound isn't everybody's cup of Chianti) and Crispino does an admirable job, despite not counting among the big Giallo-directors like Bava or Argento. Crispino utilizes the wonderful landscape of Tuscany almost like a second actor, making the best of the locations (again, another trademark of any good Giallo).Within the confines of it's genre, I'd give it a well-meaning 7/10, as a pure Psycho-Thriller perhaps a little less, since not everybody is comfortable with the Giallo-style, lurid storytelling and choppy structure. Again, I'd like to point out to whoever added the line "The first zombie movie to be filmed in anamorphic wide screen" in the trivia-section, I assure you: there are no Undead to be seen and those who get killed in "Etruscan lives again", stay as dead as a corpse can be.

let's start to say that this movie is not available in Italy (neither DVD or even VHS). It's incredible if you think that this is an Italian movie and in Italy you can find all the sort of American z movies! (even the Americans realize z movies).By the way this is a nice giallo, well directed and well acted, I like very much Alex Cord (he looks like the young Chuck Norris, but Cord seems much more athletic and stunning then Chuck). I think this one has a lot in common with Friday the 13th (the plot, some murders, motivation of the killer...) but it came out almost 10 years before Jason.If you like slashers and gialli , you will like this one