Cemetery Man (2010)

This is indeed a curious treat for everyone who loves some sex(and dark humor) in their zombie violence. Starring Rupert Everett as the reluctant, but badass anti hero?(not even sure) And Anna Falchi as the drop dead gorgeous widow. This movie has it all to make a cult classic. It's deeper than you think, funnier than you expect, and violent as hell! And it's also sexy.. and weird.. yeah.. Go see it now!

Michele Saovi's wonderfully weird and wacky, art house horror flick is also kind of a throwback to the Fantastique genre of the 1970s. Lush, beautiful cinematography, Surreal, Gothic piece about Francesco Dellamorte, engineer- oh, sorry, that's right, he doesn't like to be called that, he's a *caretaker*, at a small Cemetery, and he and his Joe Besser-lookalike helper have their hands full with The Returners, recently deceased who come back to life to devour the living, who can only be killed permanently by a bullet to the head. Dellamorte keeps experiencing visions of a mysterious, nameless girl with whom he falls in love, but then has to kill after she is attacked by a Returner. But she appears to come back yet again.....Atmospheric horror have some great effects, and some really weird touches of comedy, like Dellamorte reading the telephone books for fun and recreation, even going so far as to call them "classics"! (I thought I was odd because I read dictionaries for recreation) Things like that gives the film humour, as well as giving the characters nuances and depth, as does Dellamorte's inner monologue.

Even though it never got boring I must say that halfway I knew that his movie was not going to have a storyline that would stick with me. Actually I am not sure if there is much story in it as the whole picture looked more surreal than anything else. Was it the protagonist's dream or nightmare? A place he cannot get out and one girl he just cannot get out of his head and she keeps returning in several disguises no matter how many times he kills her of. Lots of symbolism that might get over your head (it went over mine since I wasn't expecting that kind of movie). Too bad Rupert Everett's character was quite dull. I don't think he cracked a smile once, looking like sad animated character Droopy in pretty every scene. The character of Ghaghi was much more interesting to me. As disturbing as it was his love for the Mayor's daughter even when she became little more than an undead head was quite sweet. But when this angle was quite literally killed of by our tragic hero my interest in this flick was pretty much over.

In Buffalora, Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) is the administrator of the local cemetery and he lives in a house by the cemetery with the intellectually disabled gravedigger Gnaghi (François Hadji-Lazaro) that is his only friend. The cemetery has a peculiarity since the dead reanimates on the seventh night after their death and Dellamorte and Gnaghi together hunt them down. When a gorgeous widow (Anna Falchi) attends the funeral of her old husband, Dellamorte falls in an unrequited love with her. One day, he shows the ossuary to her stimulating her sex drive, and they make love on the top of her husband's grave. However he awakes and bites her, and when she raises, Dellamorte shoots her. On the next days, Gnaghi falls in love with the mayor's daughter Valentina Scanarotti (Fabiana Formica) but she is beheaded in a motorcycle accident with her friend Claudio (Alessandro Zamattio). Along the next days, Dellamorte meets two women that looks alike his deceased love, but his romance ends tragically. He decides to leave Buffalora with Gnaghi, but their journey abruptly ends."Dellamorte Dellamore" is an unconventional, weird, funny and cult black comedy. The surrealistic plot has a great cinematography, direction and performances. Dellamorte is a detached character and Rupert Everett is excellent. Anna Falchi is very sexy and has an amazing body. Unfortunately the dubbing is terrible. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Pelo Amor e Pela Morte" ("For the Love and for the Death")