Rupert Everett plays a man in charge of a cemetery in Italy. The problem is that the dead keep coming back to life and Everett must kill them (again) by stopping their brains. Then he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman. They make love in the graveyard, on top of a grave and things go all wrong...
I saw this thing (I can barely call it a movie) when it slithered on to some art house screens here in America. On one hand I was very pleased to see a film with such incredibly graphic gore get an R rating. But that's about all I liked it about it. Like most Italian horror movies the plot is secondary to gore and imagery but I need a story or at least a character to anchor down a horror movie...this has neither. It's full of people with no personality whatsoever (Everett plays the whole role with a blank face) and the "plot" just comes and goes and makes precious little sense. Also this movie wavers VERY uncomfortably between black humor and gory horror and achieves neither.
If all you care about is a pointless movie with gory violence (and the expected female nudity) this is for you. I was frustrated and actually very bored by the end. The movie does deserve credit--it somehow made blood and gore LOOK boring!!!! A complete waste of time--I can't say talent because there isn't any in front or behind the camera. A 1.
I saw this thing (I can barely call it a movie) when it slithered on to some art house screens here in America. On one hand I was very pleased to see a film with such incredibly graphic gore get an R rating. But that's about all I liked it about it. Like most Italian horror movies the plot is secondary to gore and imagery but I need a story or at least a character to anchor down a horror movie...this has neither. It's full of people with no personality whatsoever (Everett plays the whole role with a blank face) and the "plot" just comes and goes and makes precious little sense. Also this movie wavers VERY uncomfortably between black humor and gory horror and achieves neither.
If all you care about is a pointless movie with gory violence (and the expected female nudity) this is for you. I was frustrated and actually very bored by the end. The movie does deserve credit--it somehow made blood and gore LOOK boring!!!! A complete waste of time--I can't say talent because there isn't any in front or behind the camera. A 1.