Michele Soavi
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* Not least because there kind of already has been a version of The Nun in Italian: it's called The Church , it's by the deeply undervalued director Michele Soavi, and it is gaudy, weird, and wonderful.
Other more or less obvious sources of inspiration include Dawn of the Dead , such Italian horror flicks as Lamberto Bava's Demons and Michele Soavi's The Church , Terence Malick's Badlands, and the novels of Jim Thompson.
In effect, CEMETERY MAN is part of the tradition of Italian horror films that prize imagery over substance, rather like Argento’s Suspiria and Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond.
Director Michele Soavi, a disciple of Dario Argento (Suspiria), strikes a unique tone with all this.
Based on the wildly popular Italian comic book Dellamorte, Dellamore from Tiziano Sclavi's Dylan Dog series, Cemetery Man is the bastard progeny of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and any number of Fellini films.
A macabre blend of elements that separately would be at home in "Rain Man," "Love Story," "Night of the Living Dead" and "Dracula," "Cemetery Man" details the graveyard duo's bloody and occasionally sexual interactions with the recently deceased in a small Italian town, where those recently deceased due to a strange post-mortem epidemic become the newly revived and can only be dispatched back to their eternal rest by blowing, cleaving or otherwise gerunding their heads open.
Viewers who loved Dario Argento’s Phenomena (1985) the other week at the Thursday Horror Picture Show will definitely find much to like here.
Cemetery Man recalls Bob Balaban's 1993 feature, My Boyfriend's Back, but with a much nastier edge.
Films like Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness , Don Coscarelli's Bubba Ho-Tep , Michele Soavi's Cemetery Man , and (most obviously) Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Shaun of the Dead have paved a path that allows productions like Zombieland to make their road trips with ease.
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But the final hour is a slow and talky, even pretentious, exposition on love and death that owes more than a little to Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire" in style and which will bore most audiences.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
Directed by Harald Zwart
influenced by Cemetery Man (1994)
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Well then, you’re finally ready for Re-Animator or Evil Dead 2 or Dead Alive or The Vampire Lovers or The Devils or American Mary or Splice or Blood for Dracula or Cemetery Man.
(If you do, please explain it to me!) It also can't be said that Cemetery Man exactly breaks new ground in cinematic technique, though jokes aside, the creepy score by Manuel De Sica and Riccardo Besio was hands down the best I heard in 1996, The English Patient and The Portrait of a Lady be damned.
If Meet the Feebles wasn't your cup of tea, Night of the Living Dead grossed you out, and you didn't see the humor in The Evil Dead , then Cemetery Man is definitely not for you.
Like Evil Dead II or Re-Animator, the film leans into modern comedy, but it also passes through moments of genuine longing and even existential crisis.