Synopsis

Cemetery Man stars Rupert Everett as Francesco Dellamore, a cemetery caretaker who finds that his seemingly dead-end job has recently become a little harder. Along with his sidekick Gnaghi, Francesco spends his days interning corpses and his nights killing “returners” – those who have risen from their grave seven days after burial. Life changes for Francesco when he falls for a beautiful, mysterious widow. When fate intervenes, Francesco must choose between Love Eternal and the Living Dead…

Official Review

Italian horror cinema has always been the domain of a few grandmasters – Bava, Argento, Fulci. This triumvirate represents the pinnacle of spaghetti splatter, the touchstones to which so many filmmakers aspire. Director Michele Soavi’s storied career is steeped in the lineage of these Italian masters, from Argento and D’Amato to Lenzi and Fulci. Soavi studied under his country’s best and brightest, even breaking mold to step onto the international stage and shoot second unit footage for Terry Gilliam’s Barron Munchausen and Brothers Grimm films. But Soavi as a filmmaker is a paradox, taking substantial periods of absence and refusing to shoot feature films without epic stories to tell. The reluctant director who has often been described as the future of Italian cinema appears more often than not to harbor the same intense psychological makeup that shaped and molded careers as immense and unpredictable as that of Stanley Kubrick and Terrance Malick. In 2006, the world will once again continue to wait for the return of Michele Soavi, but until then, fans who have sat patiently for nearly a dozen years are about to be treated to the first official sell thru release of Soavi’s majestic masterpiece of surrealistic sanguine cinema. …Read More