Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- macabre
- grotesque
- surreal
- cult movie night
- halloween viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly find the film visually imaginative, darkly funny, and thematically ambitious, while divided over its repetitive, incoherent narrative and uneven tone.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Dellamorte's cemetery duties combine undead violence with wry reflections on love, death, and meaning.
The plot repeatedly reconfigures deaths, lovers, and encounters, creating deliberate uncertainty about what is real or stable.
Buffalora's cemetery, reanimated corpses, gravestones, and eroticized death imagery are presented with conspicuous visual invention.
Dellamorte's encounters with She and other women repeatedly merge sexual fascination, bereavement, corpses, and resurrection.
Films like Cemetery Man, and why
Braindead
surreal zombie comedy, grotesque humor, and unconventional horror imagery
The Addams Family
macabre comedy, romantic obsession, and visually inventive supernatural absurdity
The Frighteners
cult horror sensibility, dark humor, erotic undertones, and eccentric visual imagination
The Beyond
philosophical horror, surreal transformations, and an offbeat collision of romance and death
Movie Details
- Director
- Michele Soavi
- Release Date
- 1994-03-25
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 (594)
Cast
- Rupert Everett
- François Hadji-Lazaro
- Anna Falchi
- Mickey Knox
- Fabiana Formica
- Clive Riche
- Katja Anton
- Barbara Cupisti
- Anton Alexander
- Pietro Genuardi
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+, Criterion Channel, Shudder, Night Flight Plus, Shudder Amazon Channel, Fandor Amazon Channel, Screambox Amazon Channel, FlixFling, Darkroom, Eternal Family, Shudder Apple TV channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Midnight Pulp Amazon Channel, Bloodstream
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, FlixFling
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Cemetery Man about?
- A cemetery guardian in northern Italy battles restless corpses while desire, grief, and reality itself unravel into grotesque comic delirium.
- What is Cemetery Man like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Cemetery Man as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Cemetery Man violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Cemetery Man as graphic.
- What did critics think of Cemetery Man?
- Critics broadly find the film visually imaginative, darkly funny, and thematically ambitious, while divided over its repetitive, incoherent narrative and uneven tone.
- Which films are like Cemetery Man?
- Films with a similar feel include Braindead, The Addams Family, The Frighteners, and The Beyond.
- How long is Cemetery Man?
- Cemetery Man runs 104 minutes.
- Where can I watch Cemetery Man?
- In United States, Cemetery Man streams on Amazon Prime Video, Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+, Criterion Channel, Shudder, Night Flight Plus, Shudder Amazon Channel, Fandor Amazon Channel, Screambox Amazon Channel, FlixFling, Darkroom, Eternal Family, Shudder Apple TV channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Midnight Pulp Amazon Channel, Bloodstream.
