Cemetery Man
Cemetery Man is a 1994 film from France, Italy and Germany, directed by Michele Soavi, running 92 minutes. reelscum files it under zombie and body horror.
- Year
- 1994 · 1990s films
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Director
- Michele Soavi
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (33/100)
- Also known as
- Of Death And Love · Cemetery Man · Dellamorte Dellamore - The Cemetery Man
Defined in the glossary: Zombie, Body horror
A cemetery caretaker shoots the returning dead and falls in love repeatedly. Beautiful and deranged.
Michele Soavi's late, great, strange horror film, in which the caretaker of an Italian cemetery where the dead routinely return must shoot them each night, while falling in love, repeatedly, with the same woman in different forms. It is a zombie film that becomes a surreal meditation on love, death and identity.
Rupert Everett is perfect as the weary gravedigger, and the film is gorgeous, funny and philosophical in ways the genre rarely attempts. Based on a Dylan Dog comic, it is one of the last masterpieces of Italian horror.
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