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Returners

Also called: Dellamorte Dellamore
FilmUndead1968 to 1999

The Returners are the dead of a small-town Italian cemetery, who rise within seven nights of burial. The caretaker shoots them as part of his job while he searches for love. The film's original title is Dellamorte Dellamore.123

Battle it
First appeared
1994
Released 1994
Source work
Cemetery Man (1994)
Michele Soavi
Age rating
R
Made in
Italy, France, Germany
What causes it
Never explained
No cause is given for the dead rising in the cemetery of Buffalora.
How you become one
The buried rise within seven nights of death.
Weak spots
  • gunshot

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1994

Released 1994

field notes

What the sources say

1

Named Returners by the cemetery's caretaker, who shoots them as routine work123

2

He finds shooting them easier than doing the paperwork to report them123

3

Based on a novel by Tiziano Sclavi, creator of the comic Dylan Dog123

4

Rupert Everett, whose looks were the model for Dylan Dog, plays the caretaker123

5

Martin Scorsese called it one of the best Italian films of the 1990s123

Sources

  1. Cemetery Man - Wikipedia
  2. Dylan Dog - Wikipedia
  3. Cemetery Man - Rotten Tomatoes

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