History Film / CemeteryMan

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

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.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Implied to be the case at the very end, when Francesco places only two bullets in his revolver's chamber, suggesting he was about to kill himself and then Gnaghi. It's averted when Gnaghi returns to life and throws the gun off the ledge, though]].

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.]]

Oh, he also kills the zombies that awaken every night with [[RevolversAreJustBetter his revolver.]]

He calls them [[OurZombiesAreDifferent "Returners,"]] and he has no clue why they are rising. He just knows through observation that it takes about seven days for a buried corpse to revive, climb out, and attack living humans. The worst part of the situation? [[BlackComedy He's not getting paid extra for this]], and [[OnlySaneMan the mayor and the other citizens don't believe him.]] Even Franco just kind of humors him.

* AnyoneCanDie: {{Zigzagged}}. People die very quickly, some of them out of nowhere, but it is a film about the cemetery and the death and all the characters apart from Francesco and Gnaghi are of no great importance. While [[spoiler: Francesco and Gnaghi always survive.]] However in the end [[spoiler: Gnaghi in fact dies]]. Still then in the very end [[spoiler: Gnaghi is revived.]]

* BetaCouple: Gnaghi and mayor's daughter[[spoiler:'s head]]. The latter in her current state cannot be picky, of course.

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

* NotSoDifferent: Francesco considers himself not too terribly different from Death.

* IncrediablyLameFun: Dellamorte enjoys reading phonebooks.

* {{Expy}}: Francesco is an Italian expy of ComicBook/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]]''.

* TemporaryLoveInterest: Zigzagged wildly. Francesco begins to love passionately Lei several times as she always returns to him. However every time as she is offed he takes it relatively easy for such a huge love.
** Also mayor's daughter for Gnaghi.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Gnaghi who is about to kill Francesco when he is bitten by a zombie. OurZombiesAreDifferent so you do not die of their bite aslong as it is not a lethal wound. [[spoiler: Though Gnaghi '''should''' already know so it is odd that he does not.]]
* ZombieInfectee: Zigzagged. Decisively subverted for Francesco himself. He is bitten by [[spoiler: Lei]] but talks sense into Gnaghi ready to off him as the latter is afraid of Francesco when he is bitten. Francesco says that he of course is not going to die as the bite is not mortal, merely a flesh wound. It only means that when he dies he will definitely return. However other people who return as zombies are not bitten when alive so it is not immediately clear whether this bite changes anything in his position.

** However, [[spoiler:the death of the first Lei is a contradiction as her wound from the bite of her husband is no more lethal than the later wound of Francesco who is bitten by her. Further zigzagged as Francesco himself implies that she might in hact have not died, just passed out after the bite from her husband. Then as she came to herself still alive he killed her.]]
** Also [[spoiler: 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 condition of a living human.]]

* InsistentTerminology: Francesco is called "ragioniere" (meaning "accountant", translated into English as the more similarly-sounding "engineer") by his oldest visitor and the mayor. It is something of a honorable euphemism but Francesco tends to dislike it as he is not an accountant but a gravedigger.

* MayorPain: Mayor of the town Buffalora. He is definitely The Incompetent Mayor Pain/The Quimby. To boost his support in the electoral campaign he is eager to dig out the grave of his daughter and take photo of himself with her body in the coffin. Just to demonstrate to the electorate that he also has lost the loved one and is worthy to be reelected.

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

* SuddenlySpeaking: Gnaghi [[spoiler: in the end pronounces a coherent sentence asking Francesco to take him away from the abyss.]] Francesco replies with [[spoiler: mere "gna".]]

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-handicapped 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.]]

* AlliterativeName: Played with Francesco's surname is officially not Dellamorte Dellamore as he does not include the surname of his mother in his name. However he is still the son of the father called Dellamorte and the mother called Dellamore.

* AntiHero: Francesco when he kills people including some of them in his dream for whom he may or may not bear responsibility. Though they die for real thus providing him with the new clients. He does not cross into the straight villain territory due to the ProtagonistCenteredMorality.
* AntiVillain: At first Francesco who is very casual about offing zombies but has to kill them of course. Then at some point he starts killing living people turning into the AntiHero. This does not make him a straight villain in this movie because its morals are too centered on him.

* AnyoneCanDie: Zigzagged. People die very quickly, some of them out of nowhere but it is a film about the cemetery and the death and all the characters apart from Francesco and Gnaghi are of no great importance. While [[spoiler: Francesco and Gnaghi always survive.]] However in the end [[spoiler: Gnaghi in fact dies]]. Still then in the very end [[spoiler: Gnaghi is revived.]]
* AttractiveZombie: Lei/She the first time it comes after Francesco kills her is the one. She just has some strange branch-like structures on her head. Later Lei/She never returns as a zombie but rather appears as a human being who pretends not to know Francesco.
** Mayor's daughter [[spoiler:(and her head)]] is this trope. To an extent.

* BlackComedy: This movie mixes this genre with the zombie horror but BlackComedy is prevalent.

* CatScare: For Francesco once when he is walking by the cemetery. It is a red cat. He lampshades the trope saying to Gnaghi that it was only a cat.

* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Gnaghi is initially very fond of the fallen leaves and is very upset when the wind starts to blow carrying some of them away so that he cannot collect them. Later it is dropped and does not lead anywhere.

* {{Gonk}}: Gnaghi, of course. Francesco tells that his physical description should read: "Distinguishing marks: All".

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Implied to be the case at the very end, when Francesco places only two bullets in his revolver's changer, suggesting he was about to kill himself and then Gnaghi. It's averted when Gnaghi returns to life and throws the gun off the ledge, though]].

* DissonantSerenity: No-one is concerned at all when Gnagh vomits on the mayor's daughter. That includes the mayor himself as well as her boyfriend. The latter asks her for a ride on the bike on which she presses herself to him. She is vomited on from the front so she should have smear his back with Gnaghi's vomit big time. No-one seems to care.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Seemingly discussed.
--?'''Francesco:''' You [Death] and I are both the same. We kill out of indifference, out of love sometimes, but never out of hate.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Gnaghi [[spoiler: in the end pronounces a coherent sentence asking Francesco to take him away from the abyss.]] Francesco replies with [[spoiler: mere "gna".]]

* BigBad: Death himself is responsible for the zombies.

* CatScare: For Francesco once when he is walking by the cemetry. It is a red cat. He lampshades the trope saying to Gnaghi that it was only a cat.
%%* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin

* {{Foil}}: Gnaghi for Dellamorte.

* JobTitle: The English title Cemetary Man.

%%* ManChild: Gnaghi.

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

** However [[spoiler: The death of the first Lei is a contradiction as her wound from the bite of her husband is no more lethal than the later wound of Francesco who is bitten by her. Further zigzagged as Francesco himself implies that she might in hact have not died, just passed out after the bite from her husband. Then as she came to herself still alive he killed her.]]

* SpiritualAdaptation: The film is widely considered a better live-action ComicBook/DylanDog than the actual ''Dylan Dog'' movie, which was a generic monster movie bordering on InNameOnly. Moreover, the main character in ''Cemetery Man'' is played by Rupert Everett, who was the visual inspiration for Dylan Dog's facial features.
* {{Squick}}: When the mayor's daughter immediately after being vomited upon jumps the bike of her boyfriend and presses to him.
** Many of those because of zombies, of course.

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 [[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.]]

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* ShoutOut: The kiss of Dellamorte and Lei as the RevenantZombie is the one to Margritte's picture "The Lovers".

* 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 "Francesco Of Death Of Love".

* GainaxEnding: The world outside Buffalora appears [[spoiler: not to exist at all.]] Alco Francesco and Gnaghi appears [[to exchange their manners of speech.]]