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DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE

ALSO KNOWN AS: Cemetery Man.

(1993, Italy-France)

DIRECTED BY: Michele Soavi.

STARRING: Ruppert Everett, Anna Falchi.

A different and very interesting film that may appeal to some and will undoubltably turn off others. Orginally titled Dellamorte Dellmore this film has an impotent cemetary caretaker Frencesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) along with his cool assistant Nagy (Francois Hadji Lazaro) who is a mental deficient. The two kill corpses which after a week of burial come back to life. Dellamorte is a lonely character who flips through phone books scratching out numbers of dead people in town.

Nagy chases dead leaves around, lusts after a young girl, spews vomit all over her and then keeps her head after an accident. Dellamorte keeps meeting the same woman in different places who always lets him down in some way or breaks his heart. Dellamorte goes over the edge on a number of occasions but is never accused for the murders he commits because a fan of his is finishing them off. Lots of bizarre stuff but it was a really good film.

There's a lot of messages in this like you can try hard at finding love and think you have but really you have'nt, the world that remains around you is the world that you make for yourself and don't let asswipe docters shove big ass needles up your schlong. Good film with a great ending. Here's a bizarre but great film that kicks El Topo's asshole to mush. Some nice gore too!

Rating: 4 Skulls

Review by: Richard J. Taylor

Email: rtaylor@roadrunner.nf.net

DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE

ALSO KNOWN AS: Cemetry Man.

(1995, Italy)

DIRECTED BY: Michele Soavi

STARRING: Ruppert Everett, Anna Falchi.

Arguably the best horror movie to be released in this decade. The films deals with the adventures of Franceso Dellamorte (played by Ruppert Everett), solitary cementry caretaker in a small italian village. His only companion is is stupid assisstant Gnaghi (played by Jazz musican Francois Hadji-Lazaro) who speaks only in grunts. But the cementry Dellamorte tends for has a little problem - before the sixt day after their burial, the dead come back to live due to some sudden and mysterious epedemic. They can only be killed by splitting their head open - a .45 bullet works best, but Dellamorte isn´t above using shovels for this work. But then She (Anna Falchi - model turned actress) steps into Dellamortes live and things start to get difficult. This film is probably the most elegant looking thing ever put to cellouid - imagine Sam Raimi, the Coen Brothers, Terry Gilliam (with whom Soavi, the director actually worked before) and Peter Jackson doing a movie together and it might look like Dellamore Dellamorte (meaning Friend of love, Friend of death). One camera angle looks better than the first, one gore scene tops the other, the musical score works great, Everett and Falchi are awful in their roles, etc.. Did I already mention that I love this film? The whole film has a very dreamlike feeling to it which is especially transparent in it´s final minutes - where Dellamorte and Gnaghi finally leave their little village to find out 'how the rest of the world looks like' only to discover that for them, the rest of the world doesn´t exist. One of my absolute favorites in the horror departement.

Rating: 5 Skulls

Review by: Georg Buol

Email: georg.buol@computerhaus.at

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