Cemetery Man Review

Review of Cemetery Man (1994) by screenqueeen: 👎 2.5/5

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So much of this film matches my attitude towards the living and the dead but something underneath just rings hollow to me. The basis of Francesco's drama is a shorthand for sexualized despair and his ultimate attraction to Valentina is contrived. Making things more complex for me is Gnaghi, who is established as someone with greater capacity than Francesco yet this dramatic weight is wasted on where this goes. The dead coming back to life thing is fun but it just feels like a distraction from whatever Soavi was trying to do with his gothic romance (which feels one-sided at best). It works better if Francesco is coded as aromantic but as it is (also with its weird fade-to-blacks suggesting many things were cut), it's dry in the wrong places for my appreciations. Sad I didn't like this that much, and all this time waiting to see it while it sat on my watchlist.