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The Living Coffin (1959)

The Living Coffin poster
Original title
El Grito De La Muerte
Directed by
Fernando Méndez
Genre
horror film, ghost film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
1h 12m
Rated
B-15
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A cowboy faces supernatural threats in a Mexican setting. Mysterious events and a haunted coffin drive the story.

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What happens

The Living Coffin (Spanish: El grito de la muerte/ Scream of Death) is a 1959 Mexican Western horror film directed by Fernando Méndez and starring Gastón Santos and María Duval. This is a only of the films in which Duval does not play any music theme on scene. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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