"A very funny zombie type movie,with a twist of love story???... Gnaghi was cool!"
--- WEBMASTER
Plot:
"Yes, that's right. Zombies. They took my shirt....."
Brit Rupert Everett (The Comfort of Strangers, The Madness Of King George) goes the
hardcore-comedy route as graveyard watchman Francesco Dellamorte, whose buried
charges, dubbed 'returners', won't stay dead, compelling Francesco to dispatch them
with bullets in the head (in the grand Romero Night Of The Living Dead tradition).
Abetted by a mute, television-addicted assistant named Gnaghi (chromedomed Hadji-Lazaro,
sort of a cross between Curly Howard and Tor Johnson), Francesco's kept busy as a
succession of fatal accidents continuously replenish the cemetery's zombie supply.
Our alienated hero ("We all do what we can not to think about life," he sighs) tumbles
for femme mourner Anna Falchi ("the1 most beautiful living woman I'd ever seen"), who's
in turn turned on by Francesco's impressive underground ossuary. The situation grows
more complex once the local mayor's decapitated daughter takes up residence at the
boneyard, where she serves as Gnaghi's love object.
Loosely plotted but determinedly bizarre, Cemetery Man is rich in gallows humour,
disgusto (though not particularly groundbreaking) makeup FX and a deadpan tone all
its own. Manuel De Sica's deft score helps keep the demented storyline bouncing along,
while expatriate American thesp Mickey Knox contributes a key supporting role as a
cynical local detective.
Cemetery Man isn't always the easiest flick to get in sync with but it's worth hanging
on for the wild ride.
It's "Rocky Horror Picture Show" meets "Night of the Living Dead."
Cast and Crew:
Directed by:
Michele Soavi
Rupert Everett
Francois Hadji-Lazaro
Timothy Carhart
Anna Falchi
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