Italy, USA, 1966
87m
35mm film, black and white, 1.85:1
mono, Italian
An Italian/American horror film directed by Massimo Pupillo. He's credited as Frank Merle on Italian prints and the direction is credited to producer Ralph Zucker on English language prints. Zucker shot some additional gore scenes for the US market.
Plot Summary
Solicitor Kovaks visits the home of Dr Hauff to help him draw up his will. But when he arrives, he learns that Hauff has been dead for a year and that his ghost and those of the plague victims he was able to summon are stalking the house.
Credits
Crew
A Film Directed by: Frank Merle [real name: Massimo Pupillo; credited as Ralph Zucker on English language prints]
M.B.S. presents. An M.B.S. Cinematografica-Roma, G.I.A. Cinematografica-Roma production in collaboration with International Entertainments Corp.-New York
Associate Producer: Frank Merle [real name: Francesco Merli] [English language prints]
Director of Photography: Charles Brown [real name: Carlo Di Palma]
Editor: Robert Ardis [real name: Mariano Arditi]
Music by: Aldo Piga
Sound: Geoffrey Sellers [real name: Goffredo Salvatori; G. Sellers on English language prints]
Make-up: Bud Dexter
Hair: Arianne
Costumes: Serge Selig
Art Director: Frank Small
Cast
Barbara Steele [Cleo Hauff]
Walter Brandt [real name: Walter Brandi] [Albert Kovaks]
Marilyn Mitchell [real name: Mirella Maravidi] [Corinne Hauff]
Alfred Rice [real name: Alfredo Rizzo] [Dr Nemek]
Richard Garrett [real name: Riccardo Garrone] [Morgan]
Alan Collins [real name: Luciano Pigozzi] [Kurt]
Edward Bell [real name: Ennio Balbo] [Oscar Stinnel]
René Wolfe
Tilde Till [Louise]
Steve Robinson
Lewis Czerny
Peter Sarto
Armand Garner
Alternative Titles
5 гроба за медиума – Bulgarian title
Cemetery of the Living Dead – US title
Cimetière pour morts vivants – French title
Le cimetière des morts vivants – French DVD title
O Cemitério dos Mortos-Vivos – Portuguese title
Cinco tumbas para un medium – Spanish title
Cinq tombes pour un médium – French alternative title
Cinque tombe per un medium
Coffin of Terror
Five Graves for a Medium
Terror Creatures from the Grave – English language title
Tombs of Horror
Пять могил для медиума – Russian title
Links
Extracts included in
Vengeance from Beyond (2015)
References
Periodicals
Bianco e Nero vol.27 no.5 (May 1966) p.31
The Daily Cinema no.9585 (11 October 1968) p.12
Films and Filming vol.15 no.10 (July 1969) p.56
Kine Weekly no.3182 (5 October 1968) p.16
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.35 no.418 (November 1968) p.177
Books
Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.149-50, 162, 164, 212, 280, 347
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.483 – credits
Zombie by Allan Bryce (ed) pp.14-27; 88-107 – illustrated article (Morti viventi: Zombies Italian-style by Alan Jones); illustrated article (The gross-out factor by Adrian Luther-Smith)
