History Film / CemeteryMan

* AntiHero: Francesco when he murders people [[spolier: including someof them in his dream for whom he may or may not bear responsibility.]]

** Also [[Francesco early into the film still tries to avoid being bitten by numerous zombies who attack him. It is implied that their bites might have irreversable damage for the body of a living human.]]

* MindScrew: Big spoiler here. [[spoiler:By the end of the film, it's uncertain whether Francesco actually exists, or is just a fantasy of Franco. When Francesco goes on a killing spree to stop the Returners from rising, he Can't Get In Trouble For Nuthin' and the police arrest Franco for all his murders. The possibility is further muddied as Franco is bedridden and unable to move when Francesco brings a gun to the hospital and kills a doctor and a nun.]]
* MeaningfulName: 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 "Of death Of love".

** Also [[Francesco early into the film still tries to avoid being bitten by numerous zombies who attack him. It is implied that their bites might have irreversable damage for the body of a living human.]]

* FreakyFridayFlip: [[spoiler: It appears to happen to Francesco and Gniaghi in the ending when Gniaghi addresses Francesco coherently and the latter only answers Gnia.]]

* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: Francesco says casually that sometimes he believes that Buffalora must be the only city in the universe and the rest of the world might not exist. In the end it appears to be the case.]]

* AntiHero: Francesco when he murders people [[spolier: including someof them in his dream for whom he may or may not bear responsibility.]]

* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: Francesco says casually that sometimes he believes that Buffalora must be the only city in the universe and the rest of the world might not exist. In the end it appears to be the case.]]

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

* MeaningfulName: André Dellamorte means [[spoiler: Warrior Noble Death - A noble warrior of death - YMMV]]

One of the few movies that mixes [[BlackComedy comedy]], [[BoyMeetsGirl romance]], [[RuleOfCool zombie hunting]], and [[ContemplateOurNavels existentialism]], and mixes them well. Also known as ''Dellamorte Dellamore'' in Italian, and ''Mi novia es un Zombie'' in Spanish.

One of the few movies that mixes [[BlackComedy comedy]], [[BoyMeetsGirl romance]], [[RuleOfCool zombie hunting]], and [[ContemplateOurNavels existentialism]], and mixes them well. Also known as ''Dellamorte Dellamore'' in Italian, and ''[[BilingualBonus Mi novia es un Zombie]]'' in Spanish.

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* ArcWords: "Will I see her again?"
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Francesco Dellamorte.
* AxCrazy
* BlackComedy

* [[CantGetInTroubleForNuthin Can't Get In Trouble For Nuthin']]
* ChekhovsGunman: Franco.

* DysfunctionJunction

* GainaxEnding

* ALoveToDismember
* ManChild: Gnaghi.

* NoNameGiven: "She."

* UnreliableNarrator

* ShoutOut: A possible shout-out to Creator/DarioArgento's ''DeepRed'' as Francesco is annoyed when an old woman keeps calling him an engineer.

* ShoutOut: A possible shout-out to DarioArgento's ''DeepRed'' as Francesco is annoyed when an old woman keeps calling him an engineer.

* [[spoiler:BoyMeetsGhoul: When Francesco meets the widow. Again. Also Gnaghi and the mayor's daughter.]]

This film provides examples of:
* ALoveToDismember

->"The living dead and the dying living are all the same. Cut from the same cloth. But disposing of dead people is a public service, whereas you're in all sorts of trouble if you kill someone while they're still alive."

->"This is my business. They pay me for it."

* {{Expy}}: Francesco is an Italian expy of DylanDog, and actually appears, with Gnaghi, in several issues of the comic. Dylan Dog is a visual expy of Rupert Everett, [[MindScrew who plays Francesco in]] ''[[MindScrew Cemetery Man]]''.

* BoyMeetsGhoul: [[spoiler:When Francesco meets the widow. Again. Also Gnaghi and the mayor's daughter.]]

* LoveAtFirstSight: The widow. [[spoiler:And the widow's clones. The actress who plays them all is credited as "She."]]

Francesco [[BilingualBonus Dellamorte]] 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-handicapped man only capable of saying "gna." (Like "nya" but not [[WebOriginal/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.]]

Francesco [[BilingualBonus Dellamorte]] 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-handicapped man only capable of saying "gna." (Like "nya" but not [[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.]]