It's not easy being the cemetery caretaker in Buffalora, Italy. There's the long hours, social ostracization, and ugly work environment. Not to mention that seven days after being buried the dearly departed of Buffalora have a nasty habit of rising from the dead as flesh-eating zombies. But I suppose that little detail wasn't included in the job description. Nevertheless, Francesco Dellamorte maintains a careful vigil over the cemetery with his mentally handicapped friend Gnaghi, regularly destroying the "Returners" before they can escape and invade the village. Such is the world of Cemetery Man, a film by Italian horror director Michele Soavi. The film's key concept isn't a bad one: a humorous look at the life of a lovelorn outsider forever doomed to combat the undead. The only problem is that instead of deftly combining horror, humor, and romance (like the brilliant Shaun of the Dead), the film lurches from one genre to the other with all of the grace and poise of one of its undead villagers. It's a terribly unbalanced film that when you get right down to it isn't very romantic, isn't very funny, and, worst of all, isn't very scary.
5/10
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