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Dellamorte Dellamore
DVD/APPROX. 105 MINS/1994/ITALY UNRATED
DVD/APPROX. 105 MINS/1994/ITALY UNRATED
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Hailed as the future of Italian Horror, Michele Soavi received the film bug in his late teens after being raised in an artistic family. Starting off acting
in bit parts ranging from Aristide Massacessi to Lamberto Bava films, it was initially Joe D’amato (Aristide Massacessi) who first took him on as an
assistant director. Soavi later came into his own when he started his collaboration with famed Italian, horror director Dario Argento, who used him
as second assistant director on the film Tenebrae. After an apprenticeship with Argento, Soavi set off to direct his own films starting of with Dario
Argento's World of Horror (1985) a documentary on his mentor, then his first film Deliria / Stage Fright (1987), La Chiesa / The Church (1989)
and La Setta / The Sect (1991),which brings us to Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) which in English literally translates to Of Death and of Love.
Dellamorte Dellamore, although scripted by Gianni Romoli was based on the 1991 novel by Tiziano Sclavi and his Dylan Dog comics. A brilliantly
shot film its not so easy to classify as it’s part zombie splatter comedy, part ethereal fantasy with a supernatural romantic twist and part Italian
politics. Dellamorte Dellamore's story concerns the beleaguered caretaker of a small Italian cemetery, who searches for love while defending the
town from zombies. Our Leading man(Rupert Everitt) and caretaker of the Buffalora cemetery is faced with a dilemma: every seven days, the
freshly buried who he refers to as “Returners” return from the grave with a hunger for flesh, like a fat guy for fries, like most Zombie films.
Although this is not your average zombie film. Anyhow it seems Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everitt) has been accustomed to this as we witness
in the first scene where Francesco effortlessly both physically and mentally disposes of a Returner with a slug to its mug as easy as taking a dump.
As the title implies the film deals with life and death. Life and the inability to it live it and death with the problems of facing it. This is actually a very
deep film and you may come away with lots of hidden sub context and let me tell you I had a real fucking hard time trying to pick up on everything.
Anyway as Francesco doesn't really seem to much have much of an existence apart from a friend he can only really relate to on the phone and his
assistant Gnaghi (François Hadji-Lazaro), a dwarven misfit who speaks in grunts, he spends most of his time wiping out the names of the
deceased from his Telephone directory. He meets a widow played by Anna Falchi, who in real life is a famous, beautiful and exotic model with a
body that could turn a gay man straight. (Well OK ,maybe not in Rupert Everitts case.) The widow is mourning at her deceased husbands grave
and Francesco automatically is smitten with her until she is eventually taken away from him through death. Francesco actually falls in love 3 times
in the film (all love interests played by Falchi) and it isn’t until all 3 are eventually taken away that Francesco can escape his bleak existence and
emerge from his deep melancholy. The first woman previously mentioned is apparently turned on by ossuary’s. When her dead hubby returns from
the grave and kills her, Dellamorte is left shocked and hopeless. But fortunately for him she is buried in that exact cemetery and not even death
can split them apart, luckily for him and Buffalora’s 7 day warranty. He then ends up falling for the mayor's secretary who happens to have a
strange phobia that forces Dellamorte to cut off his tallywhacker. Will he do it? You’ll have to see for yourself. And finally there is a strange college
girl who ends up being too easy. What is her secret? These affairs end up driving Dellamorte insane in the membrane until the point where he
becomes postal,and murders most of the town folk that originally made fun of him. But is Dellamorte really committing the murders? Or is it
someone else? Are those women real or a product of his imagination? Is his insanity getting out of hand? It’s got me fucked and it’ll probably mind-
fuck you too.
Soavi’s direction is awesome, bringing you along in Francesco’s different states of mind and there is also some nice grue ,FX and eye candy for
those who that is the only redeeming value of films.
In the final scene Francesco and Gnaghi swap roles, could it be, Gnaghi is a much more understandable character. His desires for sure make
perfect sense – slug down another bowl of pasta, watch a bit of idiot box, fall in love. Where as Francesco on the other hand, only makes sense in
the Buffalora cemetery, but not in the outside world and is unable to differentiate between life and Death. Do they swap personalities really or are
our perceptions switched?
Take a geeze for yourself: in my opinion this is one of the greatest horror films of the 90’s and words literally fail me in trying to sum this film up
100 percent. Once again RLDVD’s come to the rescue with a great looking 1.85:1 RED EDITION with additional German and English language prints.
Kudos to Rare License DVDs and I look forward to more of their releases.
Pure Brilliance and highly recommended.
in bit parts ranging from Aristide Massacessi to Lamberto Bava films, it was initially Joe D’amato (Aristide Massacessi) who first took him on as an
assistant director. Soavi later came into his own when he started his collaboration with famed Italian, horror director Dario Argento, who used him
as second assistant director on the film Tenebrae. After an apprenticeship with Argento, Soavi set off to direct his own films starting of with Dario
Argento's World of Horror (1985) a documentary on his mentor, then his first film Deliria / Stage Fright (1987), La Chiesa / The Church (1989)
and La Setta / The Sect (1991),which brings us to Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) which in English literally translates to Of Death and of Love.
Dellamorte Dellamore, although scripted by Gianni Romoli was based on the 1991 novel by Tiziano Sclavi and his Dylan Dog comics. A brilliantly
shot film its not so easy to classify as it’s part zombie splatter comedy, part ethereal fantasy with a supernatural romantic twist and part Italian
politics. Dellamorte Dellamore's story concerns the beleaguered caretaker of a small Italian cemetery, who searches for love while defending the
town from zombies. Our Leading man(Rupert Everitt) and caretaker of the Buffalora cemetery is faced with a dilemma: every seven days, the
freshly buried who he refers to as “Returners” return from the grave with a hunger for flesh, like a fat guy for fries, like most Zombie films.
Although this is not your average zombie film. Anyhow it seems Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everitt) has been accustomed to this as we witness
in the first scene where Francesco effortlessly both physically and mentally disposes of a Returner with a slug to its mug as easy as taking a dump.
As the title implies the film deals with life and death. Life and the inability to it live it and death with the problems of facing it. This is actually a very
deep film and you may come away with lots of hidden sub context and let me tell you I had a real fucking hard time trying to pick up on everything.
Anyway as Francesco doesn't really seem to much have much of an existence apart from a friend he can only really relate to on the phone and his
assistant Gnaghi (François Hadji-Lazaro), a dwarven misfit who speaks in grunts, he spends most of his time wiping out the names of the
deceased from his Telephone directory. He meets a widow played by Anna Falchi, who in real life is a famous, beautiful and exotic model with a
body that could turn a gay man straight. (Well OK ,maybe not in Rupert Everitts case.) The widow is mourning at her deceased husbands grave
and Francesco automatically is smitten with her until she is eventually taken away from him through death. Francesco actually falls in love 3 times
in the film (all love interests played by Falchi) and it isn’t until all 3 are eventually taken away that Francesco can escape his bleak existence and
emerge from his deep melancholy. The first woman previously mentioned is apparently turned on by ossuary’s. When her dead hubby returns from
the grave and kills her, Dellamorte is left shocked and hopeless. But fortunately for him she is buried in that exact cemetery and not even death
can split them apart, luckily for him and Buffalora’s 7 day warranty. He then ends up falling for the mayor's secretary who happens to have a
strange phobia that forces Dellamorte to cut off his tallywhacker. Will he do it? You’ll have to see for yourself. And finally there is a strange college
girl who ends up being too easy. What is her secret? These affairs end up driving Dellamorte insane in the membrane until the point where he
becomes postal,and murders most of the town folk that originally made fun of him. But is Dellamorte really committing the murders? Or is it
someone else? Are those women real or a product of his imagination? Is his insanity getting out of hand? It’s got me fucked and it’ll probably mind-
fuck you too.
Soavi’s direction is awesome, bringing you along in Francesco’s different states of mind and there is also some nice grue ,FX and eye candy for
those who that is the only redeeming value of films.
In the final scene Francesco and Gnaghi swap roles, could it be, Gnaghi is a much more understandable character. His desires for sure make
perfect sense – slug down another bowl of pasta, watch a bit of idiot box, fall in love. Where as Francesco on the other hand, only makes sense in
the Buffalora cemetery, but not in the outside world and is unable to differentiate between life and Death. Do they swap personalities really or are
our perceptions switched?
Take a geeze for yourself: in my opinion this is one of the greatest horror films of the 90’s and words literally fail me in trying to sum this film up
100 percent. Once again RLDVD’s come to the rescue with a great looking 1.85:1 RED EDITION with additional German and English language prints.
Kudos to Rare License DVDs and I look forward to more of their releases.
Pure Brilliance and highly recommended.
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