Cemetery Man
dir. Michele Soavi · 1994
A cemetery keeper named Francesco Dellamorte grapples with the bizarre phenomenon of the dead rising in the small town of Buffalora. As he navigates his duties of dispatching the undead, he finds himself entangled in a series of absurd romantic encounters that blur the lines between love and death. Watching this film is like wandering through a dreamscape where humor and horror coexist, leaving you to ponder the absurdity of existence.
This movie is based on a novel of Tiziano Sclavi, and it always reflects the "sclavian philosophy" diffused by the most successful comics in Italy: Dylan Dog, the detective of the nightmare. There is the duality between love and dead (in Italian "dellamore" means "of love" and "dellamorte" means "of death"), a duality that Dellamorte feels in a really hard way. He is the guardian of the cemetery of Buffalora, a little town in the north of Italy, in which, we don't know why, corpses rise from tombs and Dellamorte has to destroy them. Dellamorte seems not to ask to himself why this happen, he shoots and loves. But at the end he wants to leave Buffalora.
