It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Love After Death (1968) ** (out of 4) Due to a cataleptic episode, Montel (Guillermo De Cordova) is buried alive by his wife and doctor who he learns were also having an affair. Montel manages to crawl his way to the surface where he eventually takes a liking to watching naked women.LOVE AFTER DEATH is an Argentinean film that manages to be quite entertaining even though it probably had a budget of only a couple thousand dollars. The film is pretty much all over the map as it wants to be a horror film, a noir and a sexploitation picture. What's most interesting about the film is the opening sequence where the man comes out of the ground and stumbles around a graveyard. You can't help but see some similarities with George A. Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD including the same library music. I'm going to take a guess that the Romero film was out first but I must admit that the director here did a nice job.As far as the rest of the film goes, there's nothing overly good about any of it but at the same time it's mildly entertaining if you enjoy these types of movies. The highlight of the film is without question the opening sequence inside the cemetery but from here we basically get a mix of noir and sexploitation. There are countless naked women on display so if you're a sexploitation freak then you'll enjoy what this has to offer. The sex scenes really aren't that erotic but at the same time the nudity will keep your attention.

I saw this film on a triple bill DVD by the good old folks at Something Weird Video. Along with Monstrosity and The Incredible Petrified World, Love After Death seems to be the strongest of the three, and that's not saying much. Nearly silent film with brief snatches of badly dubbed dialog, this sex and horror film emphasizes the sex and very little horror. A man is deliberately buried alive by his unfaithful wife and her business partners. The man crawls out of his coffin and spends the rest of the film, trying to have sex with a half dozen people before he kills his partners and wife. As he is about to be arrested----major spoiler-he disappears. Turns out his spirit came back from the dead, to exact revenge and have sex with a half dozen people. Sorry folks, I didn't make or write this movie, I only saw it.

(Some Spoilers) Strange Argentine import that has to do with murder and revenge and lots and lots of soft core sex in between. Although alive but in a comatose state Mr. Montel is seen attending his own funeral at the start of the movie. Montel knows that he's been done in by Dr. Anderson and his cheating wife Sofia who are secretly lovers and is now in no condition to do anything about it. There's also good old Arturo who Montel's best friend who's really the guy that Sofia's in love with at the funeral who, together with Sofia, is planning to do the good doctor in after Montel is put away for good.Montel for his part breaks out of his coffin, after it was buried, and goes out in the streets not at first trying to get revenge against his cheating wife and her boyfriends, Dr. Anderson & Arturo, but looking for action to regenerate his floundering and inactive libido. We find out from Sofia that Montel was a dud in bed and didn't consummate their marriage, she's still a virgin Sofia tells a shocked Dr. Anderson, because he was just too sickly and out of shape at the time. Montel getting involved in a number of sexual encounters, one with a transvestite and another with a lesbian couple, is still unable to preform running out of steam just when he's about to get it on and do it. It's almost by accident that Montel gets back on track in the love making department when he helps this foxy brunette with her packages who invites him up into her apartment for a cup of tea. Getting in on and leaving the sweet giving and kind hearted women, as well as himself, in a state of ecstasy Montel now feeling secure and being a man among men goes after those who tried to do him in his wife Sofia Arturo and Dr. Anderson. The police in the person of Det.Torres feeling that Montel is really alive, his grave was found opened with him not in it, stake out Montel's and Sofia's castle feeling that he'll show up there sooner or later. It's later that Det. Torres ends up shooting Arturo and one of his goons who go there thinking that they'll find the missing Montel in his castle and then kill him.Finding his way back to Sofia's and Dr. Anderson's high-rise love nest Montel ends up stabbing Dr. Anderson to death and then chasing Sofia up on the roof, after slashing her pretty face with a switch-blade, strangles her. Det. Torres getting to the murder scene but not in time to save Sofia gets the surprise of his life, as does the movie audience, with Montel doing a disappearing act as the movie finally, after 72 minutes, ends.Not much of a story but lots of sexy women who don't have any trouble taking their clothes off and jumping in the sack with whoever, man or woman,is available at the time. There's also the very sharp and high contrast photography, very much like in a film noir, that more then makes up for the very simplistic plot that has to have a number of explicate sex scenes to keep the audience from either falling asleep or or just turning off their VHS or DVD players.

Stay for the surprise ending? I'm not sure in which universe this served as the tagline for Love After Death (which bears the title Unnatural Love on Something Weird's DVD), but it's surely one of the most deceptive taglines of all time. I won't give away this thrilling 'surprise', but it is truly one of the most underwhelming denouements in cinema history. As for the rest of this made in Argentina atrocity, there's little to say: a man is buried alive by his adulterous wife, he rises from the tomb for a few minutes of Night of the Living Dead-style graveyard stalking, and then decides nothing would be finer than to peep at women in various stages of undress. Heck, so what if he's a corpse! He might even want to have simulated sex with some of them! None of this is as raunchy or tasteless as it sounds, and the film is a dead bore, though some of the women are quite attractive in a mod late '60s way.