The Zombie Critic
Cemetery Man - Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)

The night watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, of a cemetery in a small Italian Villa has an annoying problem when he finds it necessary to re-kill the very people he is paid to bury.  Though not too much of a task for he and his bumbling side kick, Gnaghi, the “Returners” are really more of an inconvenience compared to Dellamorte’s real issue of his continuous bad luck of falling in love with the multiple flaky characters played by Anna Falchi.

Cemetery Man is by far in my all time favorites list for zombie flicks and is quite refreshing compared to the often predictable Apocalypse style of walking dead films.  This isn’t so much a zombie movie as it is a demented Italian love story with some zombies thrown in for good measure.  I give it five headless talking heads up.

Zombi 2, aka Zombie, aka Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)


This is one of the first Italian Zombie movies by Lucio Fulci and it kind of kick started the whole weird Italian horror genre.

Also, there’s some notable scenes such as the Zombie vs. Shark and the infamous eye gouging scene.  Not to mention that the Fulci style zombies are quite gory compared to earlier Romero zombies.  Fulci’s heavy use of live worms in the eye sockets of his living dead seem to be one his signature effects.

Overall, the movie is pretty visual and not that scary in a suspenseful kind of way, it’s more in a creepy gross way.  It’s solid stuff and definitely worth seeing if you’re a hardcore zombiephile.