Movie of the Week...Cemetery Man

Cemetery Man is a strange combination of schlock and drawing room comedy. An Italian horror film from 1994 starring Rupert Everett as the ostensible character who has to repel zombies (eventually including his love interest-glamorous Anna Falchi) with numbing regularity

This is Everett’s most unusual role so far in his career. The film has some connections to an Italian horror/superhero comic called Dylan Dog (the author of the novel that Cemetery Man is based on is the creator of the Dylan Dog character). It is a little confusing, but Everett is seemingly playing a version of the “Dylan Dog” character (his supernatural doings and outfit connect to the characters comic roots and persona. (A bit of trivia; the Dylan Dog character’s comic look was based on Rupperet Everett’s “look”).

Everett’s character (officially named Francisco Dellamorte is a throwback to the unflappable universal Horror film heroes like Basil Rathbone who waltzed through supernatural scenarios with insouciance and Elan...