The Undertaker (also released as Death Merchant)[citation needed] is a 1988 American slasher film directed by Franco Steffanino and starring Joe Spinell.

The film is considered a cult classic, due in part to both Joe Spinell's involvement and its troubled production.

The mortician Uncle Roscoe (Joe Spinell) attends community college by day and murders women for his personal use.

His nephew Nicky, his professor Pam (Rebeca Yaron) and her roommate Mandy (Susan Bachli) begin to suspect Roscoe, unaware that the undertaker has now taken a special interest in them.

Unlike the Code Red release, the Vinegar Syndrome version does not include the public domain films edited in to pad the running time.