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Los Muertos Tambien Lloran ("The Dead Also Cry") is a fictional 1970's Mexican film from the independent comic-book, El Muerto: The Aztec Zombie, created by Javier Hernandez. The film was first mentioned in the issue, El Muerto: Mish-Mash, and is cited as the cause of fascination with the Dia de los Muertos celebrations. Although it is merely mentioned in the comic, Hernandez has given the thought of giving the story its own limited series or creating a comic-book that will tie in with the El Muerto series.

Plot
A man rises from the dead on the holiday of Dia de los Muertos and decides to visit his beloved wife. Once again, the two lovers are reunited, but the man must return to the land of the dead by midnight on November 2nd. As midnight approaches on the final day of the dead, he decides he cannot bare the pain to be without his wife and leave her alone again. So he kills her in the hopes that they can be joined together in the afterlife. But his plan backfires; by killing his wife he destroys the last person alive who loved him and would have carried his memory. He begins to wither away and turn in to dust while still clutching his beloved's lifeless body in his arms.

Effect On Diego de la Muerte
Diego de la Muerte saw the film as a young and idyllic child. Despite only seeing it once at such a young age, he never forgot the powerful imagery and storyline. He was most impressed with the director, Augustine Tenchavez, having utilized great artistic elements directly from the Dia de los Muertos traditions. A rumor spawned around the film's release that it was in fact based on a true story. A rumor which Diego believed had more merit to it than originally thought.

The film soon spawned his interest in Mexican histoy, mythology, history and art. More than likely, his birthdate of November 2nd may have also had a hand in his varied interests. He later befriended Issac "Zak" Silver, who had also seen the film. With Diego's interest in all things to do with the Dia de los Muertos celebrations and Zak's undying enthusiasm with the horror movie genre, they both decided that the logical thing to do would be to create an "Afterlife Contract".

The contract was meant as a secret pact between the two. It stated in simple English that whomever would die first would come back to visit the other and in return the still living individual with retain the dead one's memory.

At the age of 21, Diego heard about a late-night local Dia de los Muertos festival. Despite the willingness of his friends to join him, their busy schedules would not allow them to do so. To make matters worse Diego's girlfriend, Maria Hermosa, broke up with him around the same time. Forcing himself to have a good time, Diego purchased a $75 Mariachi costume in the same guise as the male lead of Los Muertos Tambien Lloran. He also tattooed himself with a calavera design he had seen on some Aztec ruins years earlier. Unfortunately, Diego had marked himself with an ancient Aztec symbol which paid homage to the god of death. On his way to the festival, his vehicle was struck by lightning causing him to veer off the road and crashes, ending his life on the human plane.

Later, he is transported to Mictlan and sacrificed by the god of death, Mictlantecuhtli and transformed in to the undead hero, El Muerto.

See Also
*El Muerto
*Javier Hernandez