Cemetery Man
1996 ‘Dellamorte Dellamore’ Directed by Michele Soavi
Synopsis
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a bit.
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It's like they made the Taxi Driver remake written by Samuel Beckett and directed by Sam Raimi I've always dreamed of.
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A poetic mind-bending surrealist black horror comedy that deals with the nature of life and death and sex and love and that has some of the most stupefyingly jaw-dropping shots ever committed to celluloid and holy shit how do you just no love every frame of this thing?
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A sincere and surreal movie about an Italian man who lives in the cemetery he tends to while defending himself from zombies every night. The movie is a quirky take on love and life set in a fairly morbid setting. The way the characters act towards our protagonist, Francesco, really put you into the film. By the end you end up feeling just as crazy as everyone makes him out to be. Because Francesco is the most sensible character the audience really attaches to him as he grows throughout the film. Cemetery Man is a dark, disturbing, yet somehow lighthearted trip through the psyche of a man surrounded by death who simply wants to create life. The ending is especially potent and will be burned into your mind for a very long time to come. In the end, no body escapes their fate.
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The tropes of the zombie film collide with the sensibilities of Last Year In Marienbad - and even the snowglobe from Citizen Kane gets a bizarre look-in. It's a mind-bending horror singularity, burying itself in your unconscious only to keep resurfacing again and again and again...
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With a tagline of "Zombies, Guns and Sex. Oh My!" you'd be a fool to miss this one. It was low budget and strange but very good. At times I had no idea what I was watching, it felt like both an existential dramedy and a surreal zombie flick with moments and connections reminding me of Angel Heart and Shaun of the Dead amongst others. It was based on a novel by the same guy who wrote the Dylan Dog graphic novels which raised my interest and there's some similarities between the main characters and the worlds both stories use but aside from that they are very different beasts indeed. This is not horror and is worth seeing for people interested in strange and little known movies.
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Francesco Dellamorte works at the Buffalora Cemetery where they seem to be having a strange problem, that the dead are returning to life some days after their burials. So he and his dumb assistant Gnaghi must patrol the grounds and kill any undead before the rest of the town finds out about the problem. It is their civic duty! But when he falls in love with a widow and soon she too becomes deceased after an incident with her undead husband, Dellamorte finds himself in deeper trouble as soon the living start dying at his hands, and not just the dead!
Michele Soavi directs this humourous mash of horror, eroticism, and black comedy that bizarrely tells a tale so far…
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Cemetery Man suffered immeasurably in the United States due to poor marketing strategy. That's first and foremost.
Cemetery Man suffered immensely in the United States from poor marketing by its American distributors. The title was changed to Cemetery Man from the original Italian title and given a schlock and camp-filled ad campaign painting the movie as just another zombie film in an already saturated market. Consequently it was released to critical and commercial failure.
Instead of the campy zombie film most people were expecting when they bought their tickets, Cemetery Man delivers something much more rare: intelligent and thought-provoking ideas in a horror film. Yes, we do get our primitive desire to see zombie carnage (and then some) fulfilled but…
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Classic horror comedy that still holds up. Exceptionally well photographed and directed with a solid performance by Everett.
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Bizarre, awesome Italian horror film. I loved it!
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A poetic mind-bending surrealist black horror comedy that deals with the nature of life and death and sex and love and that has some of the most stupefyingly jaw-dropping shots ever committed to celluloid and holy shit how do you just no love every frame of this thing?
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Absolutely one of my all time favorite movies. Perfect blend of horror, existentialism and black comedy
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A sincere and surreal movie about an Italian man who lives in the cemetery he tends to while defending himself from zombies every night. The movie is a quirky take on love and life set in a fairly morbid setting. The way the characters act towards our protagonist, Francesco, really put you into the film. By the end you end up feeling just as crazy as everyone makes him out to be. Because Francesco is the most sensible character the audience really attaches to him as he grows throughout the film. Cemetery Man is a dark, disturbing, yet somehow lighthearted trip through the psyche of a man surrounded by death who simply wants to create life. The ending is especially potent and will be burned into your mind for a very long time to come. In the end, no body escapes their fate.
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With a tagline of "Zombies, Guns and Sex. Oh My!" you'd be a fool to miss this one. It was low budget and strange but very good. At times I had no idea what I was watching, it felt like both an existential dramedy and a surreal zombie flick with moments and connections reminding me of Angel Heart and Shaun of the Dead amongst others. It was based on a novel by the same guy who wrote the Dylan Dog graphic novels which raised my interest and there's some similarities between the main characters and the worlds both stories use but aside from that they are very different beasts indeed. This is not horror and is worth seeing for people interested in strange and little known movies.
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One of the most bizarre films I've ever seen. Fantastic fun. Zombies, manic killing sprees, sexy ladies, Rupert Everett, penis-phobias, experimental sex-operations, Death (the person), and all the while allegorically Platonic. Seeing is believing, but here are some of my favourite quotes:
"Mind your business! I shall be eaten by whoever I please!"
"Get back in your coffin, you're supposed to be setting a good example!"
"If you don't want the dead coming back to life, why don't you just kill the living?"
"I should have known it. The rest of the world doesn't exist."