Review of Cemetery Man (1994) by Anna R — 09 Jan 2008

Rupert Everett is at his smoulderingest as the brooding philosophical graveyard keeper whose nightly rounds, which involve dispatching the 'Returners', are disrupted by his ill-advised congress with a young widow and his mentally challenged assistant's relationship with the severed head of the mayor's daughter.

Musing on the meaning of it all, Dellamorte goes on a dispassionate killing spree, but someone else keeps taking the credit for his crimes. With gratuitous nudity, gratuitous violence, and the undead all raising their heads within the first ninety seconds, this superior entry into the canon of spag-horror is a strange beast, unable to decide if it's a comedy, an existentialist tract, or a straight horror -- but whatever it is, it's enthralling.