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Rupert Everett, Anna Falchi, Stefano Masciarelli

Rupert Everett (MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING) stars in this Italian horror film as Francesco Dellamorte, a watchman at a cemetery. Being a watchman means being ready with a hatchet as the undead emerge fr...( read more  read more... )om their graves each night. Funny, smart, and scary all at the same time, CEMETARY MAN explores Francesco's quest for love, life's meaning, and ultimately, enlightenment.

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R, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Michele Soavi

Release Date: April 26, 1996

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DVD Release Date: June 13, 2006

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  • ceWEBrity
    November 17, 2009
    ceWEBrity
    Wow, I have no idea WHAT this movie was going for. I guess the easiest read is as a giallo throwback, but then what's with the bizarre existentialist twist toward the end? I guess it's a pretty good philosophical theme for a zombie movie to explore, but frankly, the movie is too ...( read more)fucking stupid to make any good of it. The date on the back may read 1996, but the continuity is straight out of 70s Italy, and some parts of Cemetery Man benefit more than others from this. The movie is a success when it gives way to Rupert Everett capping zombies with ridiculous poise, or sweet virginal young girls getting decapitated by buses, not so much during a "deep" and life-affirming ending lifted more or less from Citizen Kane (!!).

    I enjoyed this more or less, but it's attempting way too much as a tongue-in-cheek homage, or it's a general failure if it's actually attempting to be a legitimate horror comedy. It's no classic, but it may be fun to throw on every once in a while, if only to show your friends some of the bizarre carnage that ensues.
  • markymarkslunggnome
    February 9, 2009
    markymarkslunggnome
    Fun! odd! Loved Gnaghi's girlfriend. Loved bat outta hell. Francesco is never suspect!
  • Sleaze
    January 1, 2009
    Sleaze
    Not entirely sure what Soavi was hoping to achieve with this horror/comedy cross-over but it's a fun piece nonetheless. The stunning Anna Falchi doesn't do the film any harm either...
  • puffchunk
    October 23, 2007
    puffchunk
    This movie rules. Zombies, a hot chick, and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. At all.
  • nuheart
    December 26, 2006
    nuheart
    The first (and only, as far as I know) existentialist Zombie movie.
  • dukeakasmudge
    November 19, 2009
    dukeakasmudge
    I HATED this movie the 1st time I saw it & still HATE it.It was like watching a REALLY bad 70s Italian horror flick
  • Sloirishbud
    September 21, 2009
    Sloirishbud
    This film is amazing. I vaguely remember seeing one preview for this film during its initial release and then didn't hear from it again for a very long time. Then I read that Martin Scorsese called "Dellamorte Dellamore" one of the best Italian films of the 1990s. After hearing s...( read more)uch a criticism from a director whose work I love and respect so much, I had to check it out. I was blown away by how different this movie is from any other Zombie movie. The title of the film describes what the movie is about more than I can. This movie is about "Dellamorte Dellamore" which means Love and Death.
  • PumpkinGetsASnakeBite
    September 4, 2009
    PumpkinGetsASnakeBite
    stunningly shot. a haunting tale of love and death....oh yeah, and of severed heads and zombies!!!
  • jfvirey
    August 8, 2009
    jfvirey
    Francesco Dellamorte is the Buffy of Buffalora Cemetery, only he doesn't dust vampires, he splits open the brains of zombies, or "returners" as he calls them, and his sidekick is not a Jewish lesbian, but a grunting moron (François Hadji-Lazaro, the lead singer of the carnivorous...( read more) French rock group Les Garcons Bouchers.) His boring, well-ordered life gets a bit messy though when loved ones start returning, and despair leads to massacres.

    I can't believe I watched the whole thing (even with half my brain occupied elsewhere.) It started out rather well, as a decently shot film that tried to combine romantic imagery, slapstick and gore in a kind of necromantic comedy, set in an Italy where everybody speaks with a posh British accent. And there were some nice visual elements even in the latter part of the movie, such as the zombie scouts or the TV bit ("Oh my God, Valentina! What are you doing on TV?") But the film is a rather chaotic and episodic trip into nihilism, aiming at macabre surrealism, but falling into some sort of rather repellent necrophiliac teen angst.

    Everett is quite good as the only professional actor in the film (though I had to overcome my deep disgust for him, after watching two of his in-your-face, sex-obsessed, exhibitionistic homosexual documentaries about Richard Burton and Byron as sex tourists.) The rest of the cast is at best decent, but often below average or even outright bad (the two teenage girls in particular were atrocious.)

    The film also contains avoidable strong language, nudity, necrophilia, a lot of senseless violence and vulgarity and definitely anti-Catholic imagery: of the two nuns that are featured in the film, the first one is interpreted by a man (because nuns are that ugly) and the second one in shot in the face on a whim. Ha ha.

    But more than anything, it's the pointlessness and the solipsistic absurdism of the thing that turned me off. I couldn't find much information on Tiziano Sclavi, the author of the original novel, except that he is the author of a comic book series called "Dylan Dog", which "defies the whole preceding horror tradition with a vein of surrealism and an anti-bourgeois rhetoric", and of which this is supposed to be an adaptation of sorts. One Italian article also says of him that he is "uno scrittore che unisce in una miscela esplosiva l'angoscia esistenziale di Gadda e la leggerezza di Calvino e Buzzati." All this combines to make "Dellamorte Dellamore" look like Sartre revisited by the early Peter Jackson.
  • maclud
    July 23, 2009
    maclud
    I dont know if we can consider it as a "cult" movie.. but definetely something people should watch at least once. its funny, scarry, deep, touching, weird, different... and Hadji-Lazaro is adorable..

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