Cemetery Man

Another day, another zombie to send back to the grave. This is the story of Francesco Dellamorte, a cemetery night watchman that has to beat back the recently deceased that have come back to life.

Cemetery Man is a dark comedy horror film that stars Rupert Everett as Francesco and is a Michele Soavi directed effort. In the opening moments, we are introduced to Francesco, whose job is to send any recently deceased that come back to life back to their graves. He is ably (or not) assisted by Gnaghi, who looks like the love child of Curly and Ralph Wiggum. One day, Francesco meets a widow, with whom he eventually has a tryst with...in front of her late husband's grave, no less. She meets her fate at the hands of the zombie husband, and Francesco slowly goes through a life change. Eventually, the woman reappears, first as a zombie, then as a mayor's assistant, then as one of the roommates. All of this, along with Gnaghi's infatuation with the mayor's daughter and Francesco's killing rampage, causes Francesco to rethink his life philosophy.

Cemetery Man is one of the darkest movies that I have seen. Some horror elements and some comedy moments such as the relationship between Francesco and Gnaghi actually make this one of the most underrated Italian horror movies. The only thing that would have made this movie better would have been having some doom metal band provide the soundtrack for this movie, as it would fit perfectly with the movie.