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The Cemetery Man (1996) DVD Review
The Cemetery Man (1996) DVD Credits:
The Cemetery Man (1996) Directed by:
Michele Soavi
The Cemetery Man (1996) Written by:
Not available at this time
The Cemetery Man (1996) Cast:
Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro, Anna Falchi, Mickey Knox, Fabiana Formica
The Cemetery Man (1996) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
The Cemetery Man (1996) DVD Release Date:
12th June 2006
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The Cemetery Man (1996) Synopsis:

This movie is based on a novel of Tiziano Sclavi, and it always reflects the "sclavian philosophy" diffused by the most succesful comics in Italy: Dylan Dog, the detective of the nightmare. There is the duality between love and dead (in Italian "dellamore" means "of love" and "dellamorte" means "of death"), a duality that Dellamorte feels in a really hard way. He is the guardian of the cemetery of Buffalora, a little town in the north of Italy, in which, we don't know why, corpses rise from tombs and Dellamorte has to destroy them. Dellamorte seems not to ask to himself why this happen, he shoots and loves. But at the end he wants to leave Buffalora.

The Cemetery Man (1996) DVD Review:

The Cemetery Man begins with such incredible intensity and vigor, I was certain that it was a discovered gem. We jump straight into the film as Rupert Everett, playing Francesco Dellamorte, is having an evening at home he receives a phone call, is interrupted by a zombie. Francesco kills the zombie with no reaction which is when we pull back to see that he lives with his assistant Gnaghi in the Buffalora Cemetery, where dead people have a horrible tendency of coming back to life a few days after they die. What follows is somewhere along the same lines of Pet Cemetery.

The films starts very simply, with zombies and a de-sensitized cemetery curator, but it gets complicated rather quickly. It turns into a surreal dream like film at times only to jump back into dark humor and horror gore. Francesco and Gnaghi are both faced with a dilemma when they each fall in love with a woman that dies and is buried in their cemetery. They must decide whether or not to kill them when they come back, which leads to even more bizarre happenings. It is a strange film, but also one of the most unique and fresh zombie films of the time. It balances humor and gore in a way that very few films have managed so well.

The film may throw audiences off at first because it was an Italian based film, with a Finnish born actor who spoke English in the film. Very few scenes weren’t spoken in English in this Italian production, and those lines that were spoken in Italian were later dubbed. The Cemetery Man received some attention when it was released in limited theaters in The United States after it was unveiled at the Toronto Film Festival in 1994. Many other actors have found their fame from horror films, and it is only fair to say that this film is what put Everett on this list.

The DVD for this fantastic film includes an insert with original poster art, photographs, and some facts about the film. There is also a Death is Beautiful featurette with interviews with Anna Falchi and director Michele Soavi. There is also a theatrical trailer and a Michele Soavi bio.

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The Cemetery Man (1996) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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