Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)

Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) is a darkly comic horror set in the small northern Italian town of Buffalora. Francesco Dellamorte is the lonely caretaker of the town cemetery and, together with his simple-minded assistant Gnaghi, faces a macabre routine: corpses inexplicably reanimate on the seventh night after burial, and Dellamorte must kill them a second time. When he falls for a beautiful widow who later rises from the grave, a series of tragic, surreal romantic encounters unfold — love and death entwine again and again as Dellamorte struggles to make sense of a world where the dead return and desire persists beyond the grave. Watching the film, you’ll experience a distinctive blend of black comedy, gore and melancholy. The tone swings between wry absurdity and existential sadness, with moments of slapstick horror, poetic loneliness and grotesque violence. The story leans into surreal, Sclavi-inspired themes — the duality of “dell’amore” (of love) and “della morte” (of death) — so expect offbeat performances, eerie cemetery imagery, ironic humor, and a bittersweet undercurrent about loss, obsession and the impossibility of escape. It’s a cult-leaning, genre-mixing piece that will leave you amused, unsettled and thinking about love and mortality long after the credits.

Actors: Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro, Anna Falchi

Director: Michele Soavi

Runtime: 105 min

Genres: Comedy, Horror

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