- Director
- Michele Soavi
- Year
- 1994
- Country
- France, Italy, Germany
- Runtime
- 92 min
Also released as
- Dellamorte Dellamore
- Demons '95
- Of Death And Love
- Cemetery Man
- Mi novia es un zombie
- О смерти, о любви
- Zombie Graveyard
- Pelo Amor e pela Morte
- O Homem do Cemitério
- Della Morte Dell'Amore
- Cemetery Man - DellaMorte DellAmore
- 魔诫坟场
- デモンズ'95
- Of Death, of Love
- 魔誡墳場
- Mi novia es un zombie o míos para siempre
- O smrti ljubavi
- O miłości i śmierci
- Гробарят
- Любов, смърт
- The Gravedigger
- My Girlfriend is a Zombie
- My Fiancée is a Zombie
- Dellamorte Dellamore - The Cemetery Man
- Человек с кладбища
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Cemetery Man
The last great Italian horror film, and it is a romantic comedy about a man who shoots the dead for a living.
Francesco Dellamorte is the caretaker of a cemetery where the dead come back on the seventh night. He shoots them in the head and files the paperwork. Nobody in the town cares.
Michele Soavi adapts a Tiziano Sclavi novel and makes something closer to Cocteau than to Fulci: the film is about depression, boredom and the impossibility of connection, with a zombie problem treated as a tedious municipal duty.
Rupert Everett is perfect and the character was drawn to look like him years before he was cast.
Anna Falchi plays every woman he falls in love with.
The last twenty minutes abandon reality entirely and the final shot is one of the strangest and most affecting endings in the genre.
Martin Scorsese has called it one of the best Italian films of the decade.
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