Directed by Michele Soavi
Written by Gianni Romoli
Starring:
- Rupert Everett as Francesco Dellamorte
- François Hadji-Lazaro as Gnaghi
- Anna Falchi as “She” (The Woman)
- Mickey Knox as Mayor
- Fabio Armiliato as Claudio
- Clive Riche as Franco
Rating: 
Soavi’s Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) thrives in its grotesque spectacle yet stumbles in its fractured philosophy. Its Night of the Living Dead meets Evil Dead à la Italiana energy is intoxicating, but it never fully delivers on its existential aspirations. Behind the gleeful grotesqueries and irrepressible aesthetic vitality of Dellamorte Dellamore, Michele Soavi aims for an eerie meditation on love—both in life and after death. Yet, for all its morbid playfulness and twisted romanticism, the film’s philosophical inquiries remain equivocal, overshadowed by its indulgent camp. Rupert Everett’s disenchanted cemetery caretaker moves through a world of rotting flesh and ghostly seduction, with Anna Falchi’s hypnotic presence heightening the film’s dreamlike, morbid sensuality. The cemetery itself—an eerie and poetic limbo—sets the stage for existential inquiry, but the film seems more enamored with its spectacle than its introspection. Wild, weird, and visually arresting, Dellamorte Dellamore is a decadent feast—but beneath all the provocations and poetic decay, its ideas remain maddeningly elusive. But hey, at least its Italian title remains effortlessly cool.
