Just a Sedentary Man in a Cemetery World. He’s a...Cemetery Man!!! This has some strong Jean-Pierre Juenet kind of vibes right off the bat. Some drama, some darkness, some humor. Some Dark Humor. Added to the equation here is a rather attractive young lady with large talents and an Igor-like dude who just wants a little head. This movie is... a bit weird.
Francesco Dellamore. He’s kinda in charge of this little cemetery in a small town in the mountains or somewhere, along with his kinda retarded assistant Gnaghi. Thing is, not long ago, people started coming back after getting buried. Not all of em. Just some of them, seven days later. His job? Make sure the dead stay dead. Bit of an annoyance, really. But he doesn’t really want to rock the boat, he gets paid okay and has free room and board. Plus, he has a gun! Head shots always do the trick, get em back to their beds. But then a hot chick visits the cemetery. She isn’t into necrophilia, but some bones really get her goin, apparently. Francesco? He’s cool with that. Then shit goes off the rails down a side alley into a ditch and up into a burning building and then out the back into a raging river of death. That is my Worst. Parable. Ever. But fuckit, I’m drunk. Or is it a homile? An Anecdote?
Whatever it is, this is an interesting take on the zombie genre, I thought it was Italian but it seems French in a lot of ways? It adds an extra layer or two on the horror base, keeps you a bit off-kilter as to where it’s going. A lot of Black humor. It does mostly take place in a graveyard, after all. Doesn’t stop the sexy times though. Rupert Everett does a decent job being the Ash Williams of Graveyards, seems to take a lot in stride. But there’s something else goin on that makes the dramas? It’s not what you would necessarily expect from a “horror” flick, when it goes all metadeadical. I think that’s another branch besides metaphysical? I’m not even sure if that’s the right metaphor for its, fuckit. Hot chick’s hot, that’s alls I knows.
