Double Feature: DEAD ALIVE & CEMETERY MAN August 20, 2010

Double Feature: DEAD ALIVE (aka BRAINDEAD), 1992, Lionsgate, 97 min. The poisonous bite of a Sumatran rat monkey leads to an out-of-control zombie epidemic in Peter Jackson’s deliriously entertaining gross-out fest. It’s over-the-top gore and slapstick recalls Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD movies, but its off-kilter sense of wit and New Zealand atmosphere are pure Jackson.

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CEMETERY MAN (aka DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE), 1996, 105 min. Director Michele Soavi (THE CHURCH, STAGE FRIGHT) adapts Tiziano Sclavi’s darkly humorous graphic novel “Dylan Dog” into this eccentric, sumptuously photographed zombie film. Rupert Everett is Francesco Dellamorte, a lonely, romantic caretaker who needs to keep killing the undead that stubbornly keep rising from the graves in his cemetery.

Part of Zombie Weekend!

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