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Cemetery Man, or Dellamorte Dellamore. If you are looking for an exciting film full of zombies, shoot outs, and the nicest pair of breasts I have ever seen grace the screen of a film, then look no further. The film centers on the "cemetery man" whose job it is to keep the undead in their graves. All the while he falls in love with the super nice pair of breasts i mentioned earlier. And then it gets strange. I won't go into it here, but there are a ton of plot twists, breasts, undead, and a man who falls in love with a severed head. great film.
A very fun movie, it is best appreciated in the same vain as EVIL DEAD II and RE-ANIMATOR. Enough laughs/gore to keep the mildly demented entertained. Then again, you could just watch it for Anna Falchi....Yowza!!
I had really high expectations for this movie after reading all the great reviews. Perhaps my expectations were a bit to high, for honestly I didn't get what all the fuzz was about. Perhaps if I had been stoned when watching it I would appreciate it more. The movie does have some funny moments, but about halfway through the movie became really weird and in the end I just lost interest and could barely watch it through.
i found it pretty exciting and odd. but in all it was a great movie. i would recomend if you have not seen it go out and rent it first.and if you like it go ahead and buy it like i did
I love this movie!! This is a classic. I love everything about this movie. It's serious.. but it's not serious,it has some twisted romance and has some cool zombies. The atomosphere in this film is great, hands down. Definitely recommended to your collection.
Posted By: Thommy Razor at 1:39pm, October 16, 2008
I love this damn movie. Every part of it. It's a deeply romantic love story, an intelligent comedy, and a zombie movie. Well written, well acted, and if the effects were LESS cheesy I don't think it would've worked as well. It needed to be low budget. And, I find the ending to still be one of the most disturbing ever filmed. Also, one of the best comic to film adaptations. This movie has a very special place in my heart.
Posted By: depecheanix at 11:10am, October 16, 2008
A true cult classic and possibly the best horror film of its decade.
a very odd movie. at times i couldn't decide whether i liked it or not, but i was laughing most of the time. if this flick isn't considered a cult-film, it should be.
This ranks up there with one of the strangest movies i've seen. I'm not sure what I just saw also. It was entertaining though. Definitely worth watching to find out.
WTF? I watched this as the plot sounded like something I would enjoy. (A cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies) And to be candid I did enjoy it to some extent. It begins like a fun B-horror, and then half way through it becomes one of the most bizarre films I have ever seen. The film is several films rolled into one...zombie gore film, dark comedy, romance story? Rupert Everett is brilliant as the main character. And the photography is visually stunning (artsy Euro style) But maybe I'm unsophisticated or have just watched too many Romero/ Lucio Fulci's zombie films? Because I can't even write here what happened in this film because to be honest I have no idea?
Posted By: roostergore at 7:57pm, September 28, 2008
If you consider yourself a horror fan then his movie has to be in your collection. It is one of the best zombie films in the last decade, and you need to treat yourself to it if you have not seen it yet. Shame on you if you have not.
Posted By: Darkstorn at 3:19pm, September 20, 2008
This is an Italian movie (don't worry, the in-movie language is English) about love, life, philosophy, and ZOMBIES! It's very funny, and has some famous nude scenes, but is not quite on par with others in the horror/comedy genre (i.e. Evil Dead series, Re-Animator, etc.). Even so, it is worth seeing, if only for the spectacularly surreal ending!
Posted By: RedSabbath at 11:11am, September 20, 2008
Originally released as Dellamorte Dellamore, this is from director Michele Soavi, who mostly to this point was known as a right-hand-man to some of the most inventive Italian directors of the 70's and 80's such as Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, and Joe D'Amato. He even worked side by side with Monty Python legend Terry Gilliam. But with this effort known in the states as Cemetery Man, he took those influences to new heights of the surreal and in doing so, sort of alienated the core Italian Horror fanbase in the process.
I first recognized his solo work in his 1988 film The Church. But like that film he takes to Horror, unlike his teachers, by putting the gore and frights second and the dream-like visuals and themes first. But it was the reverse order that made Italian Horror cinema so successful in the 80's, and in my opinion adding more "class" is what killed it as a whole by the mid-90's. Sure, Horror can have broader themes, and at times it can work quite well, but when you deal with things such as language barriers, small budgets, and a world outside of Hollywood, if what you did worked already, you shouldn't try to fix it.
And that's what Soavi tried to do with Cemetery Man. Starring a pre-famous Rupert Everett, is a story of a groundkeeper of a small cemetery where the people buried in it rise from their graves about a week later. The film starts like any other of the Italian Zombi group, and quite well with real-time gore effects that are impressive, but soon the story takes a weird romantic turn as Francesco falls for a young bride of a new burial and the whole film get very surreal. Along the way, with his faithful mute sidekick Gnaghi, who's a dead ringer for Curly Howard's Italian cousin, things go quite strange. The local goverment has an idea that the dead are rising here, but doesn't seem to care. Francesco's love eventually meets a grizzly fate only to return in his life in not one but three different incarnations. And when Francesco himself questions existence here, his over-the-top actions are not only passed by, but not seeming to even be ever happening in the first place. And in the end, we get a glimpse of closure of what we saw, but leaving many questions unanswered and sorta empty inside.
The disc itself is quite nice, with a long documentary on the background of Soavi, a 5.1 audio mix, trailers of other classic 80's/90's underground horror (strangely all American releases this time), and a beautifully remastered picture. Sure, I would have loved to have a commentary track explaining why the plot was what it was, or any involvement from Everett after the fact, but Anchor Bay has yet again presented a movie with great detail, if it deserves it or not.
Concluding, I'm sorta torn on Cemetery Man. Visually it's stunning with it's images and themes of love and the afterlife with Zombi tones, but honestly that's not what we wanted or was accustomed to from Italy's Horror Zombi crowd. Sure, greats like Bava or Argento provided similar themes in their 80's works, but with Soavi it somewhat falls flat in the 90's. Probably the last decent Italian Horror film to come out from there, Cemetery Man shows just why that unfortunately came to pass and their Zombiworld's days were numbered.
(RedSabbath Rating:7.0/10)
Posted By: thedescent08 at 4:14pm, September 9, 2008
It seems to be a typical Italian horror movie, but it's not. What makes this one special is that they combine horror clichés with funny jokes. You think you know what is going to happen 'cause you've seen all before, but then you're surprised by an unexpected scene. Thus this movie never gets boring. Although the end is a little bit stupid and not reasonable.
DELAMORE DELAMORTE I love this movie and everything about it! It's so original and ground breaking, the acting is fantastic!!! The script the camra work the directing it's all good!!! I loved how our hero narated the film and I LOVED his obsession with the phone books...lol!!!
I give CEMETERY MAN 10 snowglobe worlds out of 10 snowglobe worlds!!!
Well I'm going to go watch this one right now...CAUSE IT F-ING ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!
