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  Review by Ian West ★★★★★ 7

  Dellamorte Dellamore sounds better than cemetery man, but I digress, this cinematic artform is a masterwork in vibes and the last true gasp of Italian horror—a weirdo banger that feels like the culmination of years of lurid linguini and it’s a damn masterpiece.

  For years now, since I was a teenager in the late 90’s, I’ve had trouble sleeping. Whether due to anxiety, existential dread, teenage angst, or annoying neighbors just being too loud, the slightest sleep disturbance has always woken me up, and kept me that way. Luckily, I’d always have films to fall back on that would help take me away to dreamland, and In those particular moments of insomnia, Dellamorte Dellamore has been there for me. Like heroin, I’d…

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  Review by Digital Press ★★★★½ 6

  It’s a work of art, a swath of style and contradiction. It’s a zombie movie with its own canon. It’s equal parts Lynch and Raimi. It’s foreign to an American like me, yet it’s in English. It’s a love story in a unique triangle. Its ugliest images are some of the most beautiful I’ve seen in a horror film. It’s a buddy film with a parallel universe Curly Howard as the buddy. It’s The Walking Dead-creative-killing 20 years before Dead was born. It’s gothic and simultaneously hip.

  “I’d give my life to be dead” - Dellamorte 

  It is absurd. And it makes perfect sense.

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  Review by kat🕷 ★★★★★ 9

  Poor sad Francesco.
  Trapped in a world that doesn't love him but can't do without him. Not liked by anyone but accepted as a useful mean. He lives outside of society because his only company is death.
  He desires what we all desire. He wants love. He desires it so much that it becomes an obsession. An obsession that will destroy his beloved and his only friend.
  He tries everything to avoid his fate. Wants to escape and live a normal happy life. Start over somewhere else.
  But death doesn't just let his best and dearest companion go and so in the end our hero has to realize that he can't escape his calling.
  He is Francesco Dellamorte. Saint Francis…

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  Review by Joe Lynch ★★★★ 2

  A beautiful, fucked up, pitch black hilarious, heartfelt Romantic Splatter masterpiece. So lo-fi it seems intentional and it’s practically “spaghetti western gunshot SFX” porn. INFERNO, DEAD ALIVE meets TAXI DRIVER...if you can picture that.
  I love this film and more people need to discover it.

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★ 10

  Spooktober IV: Morte all'italiana

  A film -intentionally or not- influenced by Raimi's wackiness, with Rupert looking like a young Bruce Campbell and nailing the role as this antihero with a detached and cynical outlook on life, probably as a result of his job as a man who has to kill all the people that come back from the dead as zombies after they meet their demise. His deadpan humor and world-weary attitude are well-balanced, while never forgetting to deliver on the camp. François Hadji-Lazaro's portrayal of Gnaghi lends an endearing touch to the plot, infusing moments of "genuine emotion" amidst all the macabre.

  Continuing with the Raimi connections, there are a couple scenes that brings back memories from the director's…

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  Review by nick ★★★★★ 3

  Cemetery Man is a Lynchian think piece on man's place in a mortal world, that is deceivingly wrapped up in a twisted zombie saga. It may not be the best zombie movie ever made, yet coupled with its resounding message, it's bound to be one of the most refreshing and ambitious horror movies.

  It stands strongly enough as a arthouse character study, where a cemetery duo is forced to deal with dead people coming back to life, including the loved ones. It strikes powerfully with full display of gloriously gothic visuals and well thought-out shots to remind you that it's not one of those cheese-fests you would expect from its genre. On top of the beautiful shots, you have a…

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  Review by Tears_in_Rain ★★★★★ 3

  How would you describe this film?

  a) A phantasmagorical gothic romance.
  b) A necrophile's wet dream.
  c) One of the most batshit crazy zombie films since RotLD.
  d) A spiralling descent into madness.
  e) All of the above and more.

  Answer: e

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  Review by Ethan Lyon ★★★ 9

  2nd Michele Soavi (after Stagefright)

  There is much I admire about Cemetery Man. It is stunningly beautiful, first and foremost. Soavi's eye for a strange, baroque image is perfection, and he fills the screen with dense compositions where the living and the dead co-exist. Rot and voluptuous flesh intermingle and cause anxieties of classification, especially around moments of the erotic. The actress who plays She is stunningly beautiful, and so to see her move from luscious humanity to unsettling zombification is a stomach-churning move, brilliantly rendered by Soavi and his team. The performances are also pretty damned good, even in the English dub. Credit to Gnagi's performer, because he has to convey so much with a single word and a…

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  Review by 1bl15 ★★★★ 4

  This movie is the reason I think of necrophilia, every time I pick up a snow globe.

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  Review by Slig001 ★★★★½ 2

  DellaMorte DellAmore successfully walks a tightrope between gory gothic horror and arthouse character study, with the two aspects hand in hand for a meditation on the duality of love and death. Rupert Everett is the cemetery man, presiding over a graveyard where the dead have a habit of coming back to life. Michele Soavi's film is lifted by some impressive set design and startling visuals. The cemetery where much of the film takes place is wonderfully realised in the most phantasmic fashion, augmented with a whimsical dreamlike atmosphere. The zombies are especially well brought to life - each with their own personality and an aesthetic that looks like they really have just risen from the ground. Absurdity reigns in this…

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★★ 6

  "I'd give my life to be dead."

  the type of movie that could only be the product of the mid-90s; combining the gothic comic origins of The Crow, the splatter humor of Dead Alive and a post-Tarantino embrace of genre being amorphous - but the important thing is that it holds up and is still gross, horny and cool in equal measure going on thirty years later

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  Review by Hexagore ★★★★★ 19

  Francesco Dellamorte: The Living Dead and the dying living are all the same. Cut from the same cloth. But disposing of dead people is a public service, whereas you're in all sorts of trouble if you kill someone while they're still alive.

  Rewatched a well-preserved 35mm print at the Chassé Theater in Breda (The Netherlands) for BUTplugged #11

  I had the honor to introduce the film as it's one of my three picks for the 19th of April screening. I pushed the film quite hard as being my favorite and luckily it got the most votes on the previous screening of "Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)". In my talk I opened a few doors to similar experiences from the…