What is the fascination with this movie???

I liked it for various reasons: very likable lead character, funny odd-ball sidekick character (Gnaghi), nice Italian setting and nicely filmed, quirky dialogue with lots of black humor and twisted mentality, interesting macabre poetry being recited here and there, somewhat confusing story with an inconclusive ending which made me THINK and PONDER what the hell I was watching, great-looking female part in the movie (especially when she was nude), horror and splatter that was done "tastefully," i.e. not so over-the-top that it was just non-stop sensationalism, like so many of your usual blood-bath zombie splatter movies....

I don't know, I wasn't "fascinated" with it, but I just liked the look and feel of the movie, the ambience, et al. Hard to pin down just one reason, but I liked it from a 'total package' point of view. Not for everybody, to be sure, but also I'm sure you'll agree that tastes differ among people, so surely you can allow that many people liked it.

cemetary man is pure genius!! whats corny about artistic exploration?

bab73, I'm completely with you on this one. I've tried to watch it three times now, and it's just so stupid, unfunny, aimless, and utterly lacking in cohesion that I just have to turn off the DVD player after 20 minutes or so. It started off with an interesting premise, but then - after they killed off the female love interest - the story was just all over the map. And it's not that I need buckets of gore, or that my zombies must be scary, or any number of other, limited fanboy requirements, I would just like the movies I watch to pick a story - ANY STORY - and stick with it! If you want a vastly superior film experience in a similar vein, try Dead Alive or Shaun of the Dead. Hell, even Re-Animator or Bad Taste look like masterpieces compared to this crap. Aside from some of the cinematography and a few, fleeting images, this was an utter waste of time and money for me.

There are 2 worth-while things about the movie. One is Rupert Everette, who gives a good performance as a romantic lead-type, despite the audience knowing he's very out; and two, Anna Falchi (more specifically, her jaw-dropping double Ds).

Beats me. I gave up on this tongue-in-cheek gore flick after an hour. The humor is weird and arbitrary but not funny. For instance, the cemetery man keeps old phone books because they make for classic reading. If you've got a weird premise like this movie does, you need to ground the rest of it in some kind of recognizable reality. Otherwise, it's complete nonsense — and few people aside from Lewis Carroll can pull that off. As for the gore, it bothered me less than a fat man who throws up on people and regularly smears his face with food. Otherwise I might have finished it.


... Justin

It was a great movie. Strange in a good way (think Jim Jarmusch). I like my movies a little quirky. I didn't think it was corny. It was highly entertaining.

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