The protagonist in the film, Francesco Dellamorte, is a good young man who devotes his life to the management of the cemetery. He has no friends other than his partner, Naji Gnaghi, who guards the cemetery with him. He is afraid of the real world outside, so he has been running away. This is why he did not report to the government after discovering that the dead buried in the cemetery would turn into zombies. Because he was afraid that the government would shut down the cemetery when they knew the situation, so that they would have no place to shelter. Francesco and Gnaghi are like living on an isolated island in the city, trying to prevent themselves from contacting the real world outside. In the middle of the night, when they heard the wailing of a dead person who had just been resurrected as a zombie outside in the bedroom, they picked up a pistol and a shovel to let these people who deserved to rest in peace. A bullet hit the head, a shovel shoveled the head, OK and close! It's fucking easier to do this job than to work hard to socialize yourself and build good social relationships with others. Just like what the protagonist Francesco said in the film: "Anything to avoid thinking about life."
But the plot immediately changed. Francesco met a very beautiful widow who came to the cemetery to sweep the tomb. The temperament of this widow is almost the same as that of him, both exuding a breath of death, and also having a world-weary complex. Since then, the story has become more and more strange, Francesco began to slowly try to explore the world beyond the walls of the cemetery.
In the film, the protagonist Francesco is the British actor Rupert Everett Rupert Eliot. I personally think that his performance is very good. His indifferent eyes fully express the protagonist’s world-weary complex. Anna Falchi, a Finnish supermodel, plays the widow who makes the protagonist fascinated in the film. The mysterious temperament she exhibits can make people think of Kim Novak in Hitchcock's "Dizziness". In addition, she has a few breaks in the film, and she is indeed in good shape. The protagonist friend Gnaghi is the French rock star Franqois Hadji-Lazaro (checked out online and never heard of this singer). He doesn’t have a line of dialogue in this film, but he played a bit of an intellectually disabled short fat man vividly. The image given to people is very profound.
The special effects artist responsible for the zombie makeup in this film is Sergio Stivaletti, who is also a very talented and famous figure in the Italian horror film circle. Many Italian B-level horror films have limited investment, and the makeup and special effects are sloppy, but the makeup, scenes, and special effects of this film are very good. Presumably this is one of the reasons why the film caused a sensation in the United States at that time.
After more than half of the plot, the plot of the film turns a bit to explore existence and nihilism. It also lacks the black humor in the first half of the story, and it is more difficult to understand. However, the dialogue between the protagonist and the god of death (who says he is the owner of the cemetery and warns Francesco not to kill the resurrected dead), the plot of the protagonist’s loss between reality and fiction, etc. is still very attractive. Although the philosophical issues discussed in this film may not be as in-depth as other European literary and artistic films, it is probably this one you want to find a film that combines horror, bloody
black humor and philosophical discussion. And I personally think that if you watch the film seriously, the ending will feel very shocking. Not to mention here, friends who are interested can find it for themselves.
Dellamorte Dellamore is the last theater film by director Michele Soavi. After the filming of the film, because his son was suffering from a disease that was very difficult to cure, Soavi gave up the great prospects before him and concentrated on staying with his family. After that, the director did not shoot any works for about 5 to 6 years, and later he returned to the film and television industry, but he was shooting some small-cost TV movies or series. it's a pity!
In fact, since entering the 90s, Italian horror movies have basically declined, but it was at this time that a man named Michele Soavi made such a shocking work, which made people feel a glimmer of hope. As a result, some people call him Dario Agento's first successor, the revival of Italian horror movies. But... in
fact, I checked some information and thought that since the 1980s, due to the popularity of televisions in the western world, it is only natural that films with small investments and poorly produced films like Italian B-level films have gradually declined. But anyway, the Devildom Cemetery is the best horror movie I have ever watched!
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