History Film / CemeteryMan

* ThatWasNotADream: Francesco imagines to be falling asleep and going on a killing spree after the GrimReaper tells him to go shoot the living instead, but the following morning Marshall Straniero drops by to ask him where he was the previous night, as a maniac as shot seven people dead in town.

** The kiss by Dellamorte and Lei as the RevenantZombie is the one to Magritte's picture "The Lovers".

!!Tropes:

-->'''Francesco''': "My name is Francesco Dellamorte. Weird name, isn't it? Francis Of Death. Saint Francis Of Death. I often thought of having it changed. André Dellamorte would be nicer, for example."

* GainaxEnding: The world outside Buffalora appears [[spoiler: not to exist at all.]] Also Francesco and Gnaghi appear [[spoiler:to exchange their respective manners of speech.]]
* {{Gonk}}: Gnaghi, of course. Francesco says that his physical description should read: "Distinguishing marks: all".

* OnlySaneMan / OnlySaneEmployee: Francesco wants to report the zombies as business expenses so he can use the town's money to pay for his bullets, but the bureaucracy is too dense for it.

* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler: Of the first mayor by his daughter.]]

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Averted for the medical staff [[spoiler: killed by Francesco in the hospital.]] Their faces are noticeably damaged.

* RevenantZombie: Lei or She when she once comes back as a zombie appears to do it for love. [[spoiler: Played with as later she still bites Francesco.]]

* ServileSnarker: Francesco to the oldest regular visitor of his cemetery who entertains herself frequenting it. She asks him whether the cemetery is open. He answers that for her it is always open. As she is 89 one realises this remark is quite snarky. [[spoiler: Later the character dies.]]

* AlliterativeTitle: Dellamorte Dellamore of course. It is all lost in the English title Cemetary Man.

* JobTitle: The English title Cemetery Man.

A 1994 movie, also known as ''Dellamorte Dellamore'' in Italy (and released under that same title in France), and as ''Mi novia es un Zombie'' in Spain. One of the few movies that mixes [[BlackComedy comedy]], [[BoyMeetsGirl romance]], [[RuleOfCool zombie hunting]], and [[ContemplateOurNavels existentialism]], and mixes them well.

* RareGuns: Francesco's weapon of choice is the ancient [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Bodeo_M1889 Bodeo Modello 1889]], somewhat common in Italy due having been standard military issue. {{Justified|Trope}} due Francesco's origin as a ComicBook/DylanDog {{Expy}} (Dylan too uses this gun).

%%* AwesomeMcCoolname: Francesco Dellamorte.

** UpToEleven with Francesco Dellamorte Dellamore (the latter is the surname of his mother and is not usually mentioned as a part of his name but is put into the title). It means something like "Francesco Of Death Of Love".

Francesco [[BilingualBonus Dellamorte]] (Creator/RupertEverett) works as the caretaker of the local cemetery in the small Italian town of Buffalora. He's aided in his work by Gnaghi, a mentally disabled man only capable of saying "gna". (Like "nya" but not [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Brooklynish]].) He spends most of his days reading old phone books ("Just because we've got the new ones doesn't mean to say we have to throw the old ones away. [[SmallReferencePools These books are classics!]]"), constructing a model of a skull, talking with his friend Franco over the phone, and [[LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces seeking love.]]

Things become a little more personal for Francesco when he gets tangled in an affair with a widow who's recently buried her husband. He manages to seduce her in the graveyard one night. After this point in the film, events become [[MindScrew increasingly weirder and surreal]].

* RareGuns: Francesco's weapon of choice is the ancient [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Bodeo_M1889 Bodeo Modello 1889]], somewhat common in Italy due having been standard military issue. {{Justified}} due Francesco's origin as a ComicBook/DylanDog {{Expy}} (Dylan too uses this gun).

* WhamLine: When Francesco visits Franco in the hospital, [[spoiler:Francesco's entire existence is called into question]].