Cemetery Man

+great atmosphere
+decent gore
+great pair
+GNA!

+dark humor
+"praying" nun
-did not like the ending much

This is quite the film. It’s a dark comedy horror story with surrealism and strange shit wrapped up in a love story. Well, two love stories. One was with a head.

Things you will see in this movie that you didn’t know you wanted to see-

A deceased teenager’s family buries his motorbike with him and that mf rides it out of his grave!
Gnaghi rips the head off the corpse of his crush so he can put it in his broken tv and have a relationship with her

Basically Francesco runs the town’s cemetery and the dead rise on the seventh day. He is kind of a loner and his only friend is Gnaghi who only mutters one word. He is sort of a keeper of a night in the form of a revolver and his antics to hide things from the police. There were some plot lines with the crypt keeper that I didn’t quite follow. The biggest thing is that he falls in love with a woman who strangely repeatedly either dies or cuts him off. Without ruining anything, Francesco and Gnaghi face more danger than just the cemetery.

I liked the film and thought specific parts of it were great but as a whole it didn’t quite click for me. I thought the strong points were the comedic moments, practical effects, absurdism, and the atmosphere.

In the middle, there was a song playing in the radio. It was very irrelevant with the scene or the subject, so it took my attention in a different way :)

>*"I'd give my life to be dead."*

Brimming with *Evil Dead II* style and it made me think of *Lisa Frankenstein*. You might guess, I didn't like the latter, i'm just not a fan of abysmal surface level romance and this type of dark comedy is unfunny to me (I did laugh at the phone book jokes though). I like the cemetery set, the blue foggy lighting is beautiful at night, it has a killer soundtrack, well-written dialogue, and the zombies are so cool. Good performance from Rupert Everett, his character made me think of Wednesday Addams with all that negative poetic dialogue and it made the movie quite atmospheric when mixed with the stylish visuals. But yeah, I lost interest whenever it focused on the romance and not enough zombies in the second half. Not sure what to think of those last few minutes but it added depth to this universe at least and makes the whole movie more philosophical.

3 Thoughts After Watching ‘Cemetery Man’:

1. What the hell did I just watch?

2. This entire movie made veryyy little sense. It seems like that was _kinda_ the point, but the writing was absurd and there were obvious continuity issues. It was a challenging watch.

3. It gets just a couple points for being ridiculous enough to warrant a few laughs — and for having Rupert Everett to look at.

oh man... this is so bad :D