1994 ‘Dellamorte Dellamore’ Directed by Michele Soavi
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.
Rupert Everett François Hadji-Lazaro Anna Falchi Fabiana Formica Mickey Knox Barbara Cupisti Michele Soavi Clive Riche Anton Alexander Alessandro Zamattio Katja Anton Patrizia Punzo Pietro Genuardi Stefano Masciarelli Vito Passeri Renato Donis Claudia Lawrence Francesca Gamba Elio Cesari Maurizio Romoli Maddalena Ischiale Elena Fresco Marijn Koopman Andrea De Sica
Conchita Airoldi Michèle Ray-Gavras Michele Soavi Gianni Romoli Tilde Corsi Dino Di Dionisio Heinz Bibo
Fonds Eurimages du Conseil de l'Europe Urania Film K.G Productions Audifilm Silvio Berlusconi Communications Bibo Productions Canal+
Demons '95, Of Death And Love, Mi novia es un zombie, Zombie Graveyard, Pelo Amor e pela Morte, О смерти, о любви, O Homem do Cemitério, Della Morte Dell'Amore, Cemetery Man - DellaMorte DellAmore
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…
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.
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.
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…
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
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…
Daily Horror Scavenger Hunt 7 – January 2019 Day 27: A film featuring Barbara Cupisti.
So this was the challenge that fell on my Birthday and I'm glad I chose this one to celebrate. Not only because it's one that I've been wanting to watch for such a long time, but also because of how unconventional it is. You can't get bored with this movie (well, I couldn't anyway) because even if something was happening onscreen that I wasn't enjoying, it would usually change pretty quickly and also not always make a lot of sense. It kind of feels like a highlight reel from a TV show more than a complete movie, but it works as a movie for me…
Jason Recommends 4: the blowing-kitten's-mind edition!
It seems like every Michele Soavi film I see just ramps up the greatness. I started with The Church, which I enjoyed, but then I saw The Sect and that just blew it out of the water. Everything I could want in my Italian horror experience, a cult, a satanic baby, random plot choices. Now though, I've seen the ultimate Soavi film! This feels like a leftover gift from my birthday yesterday.
When I try to straighten out the plot to this film mentally, little bits of my brain leak out my ears. There's zombie shootings galore, plenty of dark humor, zombie kissing, eating spaghetti with your fingers, crime theft and one delightfully weird ending. I wish Soavi made 20 more horror related films, I want to bask in them.
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58/39 - Bonus Watch 19/6 - decades -90s
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Why is this movie so difficult to find? This absolute gem of philosophical black comedy horror should be available to stream and in multiple high quality collectors editions, restored with a 4K transfer and tons of extras. As is I was able to get the shameless Blu Ray after a misadventure with a German blu ray that apparently is only 3D? The Shameless disc is serviceable, but certainly suggests a better version is at least possible. C’mon Arrow, Severin, VinSyn????
Despite the difficulties tracking this down, it fully lived up to the hype. A bonkers awesome classic in the incredibly difficult genre of modern horror comedy. So many…
I hadn’t seen this in 25 years and remembered nothing, except the sex scene in the graveyard with a woman with the biggest nipples I’ve ever seen (and I have seen literally thousands of nipples in real life). They were the size of dinner plates!!!! 😳
Great gore effects too. ❤️
Horror. Comedy. Philosophy. A perfectly balanced film, considered by many to be the last great Italian horror movie.
Really this movie has such an amazing mood and texture to it. It does this astounding job of combining comedy, horror, thriller, romance, crime, and existential exploration, and it does so by stitching each element together with this strange sort of otherworldly logic that makes all those disparate elements seem to belong with each other. I've never seen another film that feels remotely the same to this one. I really loved this movie and highly recommend it to just about everyone.
"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
