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: 
A bizarre collision of horror spectacle and philosophical ambition, Dellamorte Dellamore finds Michele Soavi staging a morbid opera of love and decay. Its energy recalls the anarchic splatter of The Evil Dead and the undead dread of Night of the Living Dead, yet the film strives for something stranger: an existential fable about love persisting beyond death. Rupert Everett drifts through this poetic cemetery world as a melancholic caretaker haunted by desire and futility, while Anna Falchi embodies an almost spectral eroticism. The result is visually intoxicating and frequently grotesque, though its philosophical intentions remain tantalizingly vague. Even so, the film’s decadent imagery and morbid romanticism make it an unforgettable gothic curiosity.
