Product Details

• Actors: Gastón Santos, María Duval, Pedro de Aguillón, Carlos Ancira, Carolina Barret
• Directors: Fernando Méndez
• Writers: Ramón Obón
• Producers: Alfredo Ripstein hijo, César Santos, K. Gordon Murray
• Format: Color, DVD, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Language: Spanish, English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Casanegra Ent
• DVD Release Date: April 24, 2007
• Run Time: 72 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000NA1W9A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,880 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Living Coffin" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

AKA: El Grito de la Muerte
. In this eerie atmospheric reinvention of a timeless Mexican legend and Edgar Allen Poe's classic The Premature Burial, a Cowboy (Gastón Santos) and his partner, Crazy Wolf (Pedro de Aguillón), stop at an eerie ranch to learn more of about a stone figure they've unearthed that depicts a crying woman. The ranch's odd, off-kilter residents tell them that the statue, and another just like it, was created by the now-dead Clotilde (Carolina Barrett), whose ghost has been sighted by local villagers ... crying.

Special Features:

* Original Uncut Version
* Completely Re-Mastered Picture & Sound from Newly Restored Vault Elements
* Bilingual Menus in English & Spanish
* Photo Essay - Cowboys & Monsters: The Mexican Horror-Western
* Cast Biographies
* Poster and Stills Gallery

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars wanderings spirits, April 25, 2007

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M. Barnard "tatsujogeist" (U.S.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Living Coffin (DVD)

During the 1950s, producer Alfredo Ripstein lensed a series of films around successful horseback matador Gaston Santos. Generally rurales entries, three in particular (EL GRITO DE LA HUERTE, EL PANTANO DE LAS ANIMAS and LA FLECHA ENVENENNADA, emerged as quirky "PERIOD" mysteries. the LIVING COFFIN (EL GRITO DE LA MUERTE) reteams Gaston with comic relief Pedro de Aguillón in the mystery surrounding an isolated hacienda and a corpse which vanishes from its tomb.

Nicely atmospheric in places.

Santos, never overly impressed with film work, admits to never having seen any of his handful of films in its entirety through.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Time waster, May 3, 2008

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Alan (Monroe, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Living Coffin (DVD)

Disappointing film in the Casanegra series. The mixture of cowboys, walking corpses, bandits and weak attempts at comedy makes for a boring mismatch. The attempt to weave this story into a mystery falls way short and predictable. In addition, the colors in this print are dull and reminiscent of the B/W films that were "colorized." There are much better films in this series; this one should have stayed buried.