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Cemetery Man [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) | ![Cemetery Man [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y948K0Z2L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Michele Soavi
Actors: Barbara Cupisti, Rupert Everett, Mickey Knox, Patrizia Punzo, Anton Alexander
Studio: Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
Buy New: £2.81
New (16) Used (3) from £2.49
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 8854
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DV13093
UPC: 013131309393
EAN: 0013131309393
ASIN: B000F3UA8E
Theatrical Release Date: April 26, 1996
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Delivery from the USA via Royal Mail in 10-14 Days. Please verify the Region Code to make sure your DVD will play before ordering. Region 1 (USA/CA) Region 2 (UK, Europe) Returns cannot be allowed due to a region issue. Thank you
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| Customer Reviews:
 Mental Italian Cult Zombie(ish) Classic January 18, 2008
Iv just recently started to watch these wierd and wonderful Italian movies. The likes of Dario Argento, Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci. On the whole, although some of them are fantastic, they are very hard to watch. You watch them once, feel enriched for the experience, and then never watch them again. This movie is different. Dont get me wrong, it is by no means an easy ride, but it keeps you watching and trying your best to fathom out whats going on from start to finish. Glued to it I was. Adapted from an Italian graphic novel, DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE, is a dark horror fanatasy, its story twisting and turning through many different macabre situations. Leading its main protagonist Francesco Dellamorte, the caretaker of Buffalora Cemetary, on a journey of surreal experiences which include the dead returning from the grave, an insane killing spree and a number of sexual encounters with actress Anna Falchi(one of the most beautiful women in the world).
Cinematically it is as rich and sumptuous as Suspiria or Profondo Rosso, stylish and creepy, setting up every scene and set piece with painfull detail. The characters are strange and complicated and the plotline unfathomably wonderfull. If you like your scary movies like Scream or I Know What You Did Last Summer then this isnt for you, but if you are a hardcore horror buff then this is an absolute must.
Did I mention how gorgeous Anna Falchi is?
OVERRATED BUT STILL WATCHABLE October 26, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Working as a cemetery caretaker, Francesco Dellamorte, (Rupert Everett) and his assistant Gnaghi, (Francois Hadji-Lazaro) are confronted with a strange epidemic allows a victim's bodies to come back to life. During a funeral, he meets She, (Anna Falci) and soon captures his heart. As they begin a relationship, she is inadvertently attacked and bitten during an encounter, which kills her. Knowing that she will become a Returner, he debates about killing her before ultimately choosing to do so. As more and more friends of theirs die and become inhabitants of the cemetery, the two begin losing their grip on reality. When they realize that there's no point in having any love affairs due to their condition and experiences, they use that as an excuse to stay together battling the creatures rather than changing the course.
The Good News: There's only a few areas in here where it really shines. The zombies scenes, when they're on, are simply incredible. The creatures themselves look great, as the rotting, already-decomposing skin is starting to fall off, and some actually look like some patches of skin are thicker than other areas, giving them an eerie quality. That they're covered with lots of debris from the tomb, as some have tons of sticks and sand on them make them look even creepier. The resurrections of each one are stand-out scenes, and are quite masterfully done. The one nearby the two lovers is the greatest one, being a really beautifully-done resurrection that stands as a great high-point. The other big place in this, and one of the brightest spots in the film, is that the film has a wonderfully poetic, Gothic look to it. The graveyard hallucinations, especially the figure emerging from the burning leaves, is one of the greatest moments in the film full of great images. The look of the cemetery, the interior of the house and much more here are brilliantly composed and designed. It's also got some beautiful scenes of dresses flowing in the wind that look wonderful in the best sense. These are the film's best factors.
The Bad News: There's some pretty big flaws in this one. The biggest one is that the film's strong message of love and death in here can lead to great drama, but this seriously detracts from the horror the main audience is attracted to. This is advertised as a zombie movie, yet there's only fleeting moments within that actually contain them. They're brilliant scenes, but the fact that the majority of the film consists of the leads running around trying to find a romantic figure for their lives leads to tons of long, boring scenes that are missing moments from what could've been zombie scenes. There's just endless boredom that results when it focuses on the two of them in their relationships, leaving no evidence of a zombie in sight of this. The ending twenty minutes of this is just simply agonizing as it draws up conclusions to the relationship subplots and where it's going to end, but the film simply has nothing interesting to do with the zombies and seem like the background filler in a film that's advertised as such. Another big problem is that the film's incredibly convoluted and doesn't make any real sense. It concerns matters that are extremely vague and them attempts symbolic attempts to weave them into the storyline, making the end result a general headache. This is mostly evident in the love angle, which is just simply confusing and doesn't make any sort of sense whatsoever. The incoherent, third-rate brooding babbling done in conjunction is another factor of that. By adding these with long, lifeless scenes, this one's pacing really suffers as well. It starts off nicely, but then it deteriorates until it's almost dead. The last big one is that there's really no explanation given for why the creatures are coming back. It's a fact of life that only few know about, but how they came upon this would've helped. These are all reasons why this one seems really overrated.
The Final Verdict: There's plenty of reasons why this one feels really overrated, but there's some good stuff in here as well. This one has a lot of defenders who do like the negative points mentioned here, so if that sounds intriguing, give it a shot. Hardcore, traditional zombie lovers should pay heed with it though.
 Existentialist Horror October 8, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This wonderful and very odd movie turned up on C4 a few years ago and hasn't been seen before or since. Definitely a cult classic, it fits the genre of a low budget, European schlock horror movie and will appeal to fans of that type of late night, back-from-the-pub kebab and chips offering. Francesco Delamorte (Everett)is a custodian of an Italian graveyard, burying the dead during the day and despatching them again at night with a variety of weapons in increasingly bizarre fashion ably assisted by the Igor-like Gnaghi (Hadji-Lazaro). Needless to say, he's getting cheesed off with this until the story takes a twist when he falls in love with a beautiful, nameless woman (Falchi) who returns to haunt him in more ways than one.
I'm not a fan of Everett but he is fantastic as the world-weary and laconic cemetery man and through him the film poses many questions about life and death, love and loss. On the one level it is a typically low-brow gore fest with an apallingly bad script in places and most definitely the blackest of comedies. On the other, it bravely questions the nature of obsession, love and fate. The ending is magnificent and like all good thought-provoking movies will stimulate ideas and debate long after the credits have rolled.
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