Dellamorte Dellamore

A cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies. Starring: Anna Falchi, Maddalena Ischiale and Rupert Everett Francesco Dellamorte has a bit of a problem. He's the live-in watchman at the Buffalora Cemetery in northern Italy, where the corpses are crawling back out of their graves after spending a mere week in the ground. As you can imagine, that's something of a nuisance, but if he reports it to the authorities, they'll shut down the cemetery to investigate, and Francesco will be out of a job. Since he can't have that happening, he keeps a loaded pistol with him, which he carries to the door whenever he answers a knock. It's usually just one of them coming back, and a single bullet blown solidly through the head takes a zombie down easily enough. For Francesco, it's a pretty good gig. Surrounded by death, and with only the clumsy and deformed Gnaghi for company, Francesco's life is pretty stable until he falls for a mourning widow. Anna Falchi plays the object of his desire (known in the credits as "She"), whom he seduces in the Buffalora Ossuary (where the bones of the dead are deposited); the two indulge their strange affections on her poor husband's grave. Naturally, the old man comes back and the woman dies in her spouse's ensuing fit of jealous violence. Francesco is stricken with despair, but naturally She comes back again. And again. Trivia The budget for this film was $4 million. This movie is loosely based on one of the hottest selling comic books in Italy, "Dylan Dog". This comic sells well over a 1 million copies a month. Gnaghi (Francios Hadji-Lazaro) is also a French rock musician. He also star in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "City of Lost Children". Check it out. The Japanese laserdisc of "Dellamorte Dellamore" is 5 minutes longer than the domestic release. I will let you know the differences as soon as I get it. The "returners" get their energy from the Mandragola roots in the cemetery. (Soavi, Fango #149) Tangerine Dream was originally supposed to do the soundtrack, but something else came up. An American company was willing to fund and distribute the movie if Matt Dylan was cast as Francesco. Thank god, Soavi said no. "Hell, at a certain point in life, you realize you know more dead people than living. " ~Francesco