The concept of a funeral home killing people to keep the business going is a good one, but it's only happened a few times. The most notable movie I can think of is The Comedy of Terrors, with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone. That one is pretty good from the cast alone, but we're not here to talk about that movie. We're here to talk about Maniac. Maniac 2? Maniac 2.5? The Undertaker.

Joe Spinell was in some awesome movies. Check his filmography and you'll see he worked with some of the greats like Coppola, Scorsese, Stallone, Schwarzenegger, William Lustig... but toward the end of his career/life, he started falling into some crap territory. Sadly, this movie falls into that category.

I don't even have much to say about this movie except that it's too derivative of Maniac. You've got a crazy dude who kills people, keeps their bodies, and talks to them. He even acts the same, putting on the regular front when needed only to laugh and cry to himself when he's alone or on the prowl. Also, the very end is basically an exact copy of Maniac's ending, too, where the seemingly dead body comes to life and kills him. It seems that Spinell may have actually gone crazy toward the end of his life if he thought he could keep rehashing the same old premise like this.

I watched this one on youtube, where the quality ranges from good to awful in some scenes. Some of the kills are alright, and some of them are far too blurry to tell what's going on. I can't believe it took four people to direct this turkey.